Messageries Maritimes southwest Pacific poster, circa 1950

Featuring Tahiti and Nouvelle Calédonie.

'this a great real book, I'm so pleased'

Messageries Maritimes African and Indian Ocean routes poster, circa 1953

1958 Subaru 360 microcar

Subaru's first car and marketed from 1958 to 1971. This owed its appearance to inspiration from the Fiat 500, with torsion bar independent suspension and a rear-mounted air-cooled, two-stroke, twin-cylinder engine.

cars at Oberhof Ahorn Panorama Hotel, DDR, 1970s

cyclists who watch too much 'Star Wars'

Crown Zellerbach Alco RS-3 switcher on Vancouver Island, Canada

These Bo-Bo type were made in the first half of the 1950s from May 1950 to August 1956  -- info

This photo is probably from the 1970s. Crown Zellerbach, a pulp and paper company based in San Francisco, was the subject of a hostile takeover in the mid-1980s and ceased as a distinct entity not long afterwards.

DR 41 1225-6 between Camburg and Dornburg in 1985

The East German DR was still using steam at this stage, but not very often.  See earlier posts.

Colombia railway network 1961 stamp

According to Wikipedia:-

The Colombia railway network has a total length of 3,304 kilometres (2,053 milies). There are 150 kilometres (93 miles) of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge connecting Cerrejón coal mines, Tren del Cerrejón, to the maritime port of Puerto Bolivar at Bahia Portete, and 3,154 kilometres (1,960 miles) of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge of which 2,611 kilometres (1,622 mi) are in use.

The state-owned railway company, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Colombia (National Railways of Colombia), was liquidated in the 1990s. Since then passenger rail service in Colombia is provided only as tourist steam trains on the Bogotá savanna railway, now called Turistren, and between Bogotá and Zipaquirá, and a general daily passenger service around Barrancabermeja, and its surroundings (Puente Sogamoso, Garcia Cadena, Puerto Berrio, and Puerto Parra), provided by Coopsercol.

Soviet L class 2-10-0 steamers at Sortavala, Russia

No less than 4,199 of them were built 1945—1955.

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'Sopwith Pup biplane of No. 8 Squadron. Royal Naval Air Service' art

Obviously WW1 era, by aviation artist Neil Hipkiss.

'yes it's wallpaper but I intend to replace it with real books like this one'

Somaliland stamps 2010, featuring Soviet electric locomotives

1985 Lincoln Continental Givenchy

Givenchy is a French luxury fashion and perfume house.

1947 Cushman Model 52 Scooter

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ships and a steam locomotive at the Mariupol docks, pre-WW1

On the Asov Sea, part of Ukraine for much of the 20th century, now part of the Russian controlled Donbass.

1978 Lincoln Continental Sedan

NSW 46 class electric with a Newcastle Express at Epping, 1980

This would have been just after the extension of the overhead from Gosford to Newcastle was opened the year before.  For lots more, see the book Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand.

passenger cars of the Great Indian Peninsular (GIP) Railway a century ago

This could have been a works photo taken in Britain. See earlier posts.

train cab ride: Canberra to Sydney [4K]

 

Canberra Branch (ACT) to Chullora Junction in the heart of Sydney on diesel-electric locomotive 42103

1977 Triumph Stag Convertible

'I love using catalogs of good real books'

how to use an old tipper truck in a garden display

1934 Ford Model Y, England

1933 Berliet fire truck, France

1933-36 Commer Van

With a body by Hollandcraft.

commuter train rush hour art, circa 1922

Nowadays cellphones have replaced the newspapers. "Rushing" by Grace Cossington Smith (Australian, 1892 -- 1984)

1980 Lincoln Versailles

Eagle Air?

One of two giant eagles on the ceiling of Wellington Airport's passenger hall.  (We assume they're eagles rather than condors or vultures.  It's likely a Lord of the Rings reference.) The back light from the windows makes it hard to photograph.

Leyland National buses at Woden Bus Station, Canberra, Australia, 1976

 

Common in the UK in those days.

1965 Toyota Crown stationwagon

'I've got good real books -- do you want to see them?'

A DR 41 class 2-8-2 with a passenger train in the snow

DR 41 1180-3 between Wetterzeube and Haynsburg in 1985. They were standard goods train engines operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn of which 336 were built from 1937 to 1941.

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Soviet drawing of a TE-3 class diesel-electric

"Znanie-Sila" (Knowledge is Power) on a Soviet magazine cover, 1955. See this post.

'don't clean it, grow something'

We've often seen that message finger-written on dirty parked cars, but this is taking the concept literally.  Apparently it's an 'art project' in Toronto.  (from 'Abandoned Things' Facebook page)

SNCF 4-8-2 'Mountain'

A 241P class (the SNCF counted axles rather than wheels). A total 35 of these were built by Schneider et Cie., of Le Creusot between 1948 and 1952 and final withdrawal was in 1973. This was was seen in 1967 with at-the-time standard dark green passenger cars. Four of the 241P are preserved.

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SNCB Bruxelles to Charleroi by electric train poster, 1949

1941 Ford Pickup truck

1939 Packard 12 coupe

German Kriegsloks in Stuttgart

50 and 52 class. See earlier posts.

1938 Renault Novaquartre

'I prefer spending money on good real books to clothes'

Bundaberg Foundry Co. 2-ft gauge 0-6-2T from 1952

 

Now at the Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Woodford. Queensland.  Info

1934 Packard 12 Speedster

1980 Lincoln Continental Mark VI advertisement

a motorcycle chariot race in NSW, Australia, 1936

From the Great Southern Land FB page.

17 March: St Patrick's day: Cork trams, Ireland

This city's system only lasted 33 years from 1898 to 1931 and was 900 mm gauge. The first 18 tramcars came from Brush of Loughborough in 1898. Subsequent orders of 11 in 1900 and 6 in 1901 took the fleet to a maximum of 35. The livery was bright green and cream.

 Trams on St Patrick Street.

System map.

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