Morris was a popular marque in Britain as well as in Commonwealth countries such as A/NZ in the 1940s and 1950s.
Friday, May 31, 2024
USSCo.'s 'Marama' at Wellington's Taranaki Street Wharf
No date but probably early 1970s. The wharf was used into the early 1990s.
Builder: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering, Dundee, ScotlandDate Built: 1969
Length x Breadth: 131 metres
Tonnage: 4510
Propulsion: Twin screw motor. 16.5 knots
Owners: 1969-1985 USSCo & Ascot Shipping Wellington
Had a bow thruster and flume tank stabilisers. MAHENO and MARAMA were built to operate a fortnightly service from Auckland and Wellington to Sydney and Melbourne. MAHENO was delayed by engine malfunctions and MARAMA by industrial action at the shipyard. The rapid growth of the standard ISO container in the following years saw both ships replaced by 1976 and sold although MARAMA was chartered back by the Union Company for the trans-Tasman service and also to the Pacific Islands, being finally sold in 1985 and broken up in Taiwan.
For lots more, see our books, particularly New Zealand Maritime Images: the Golden Years
Thursday, May 30, 2024
0-4-0T switcher of the Ozark Lines 1:12 model
There were a few railways that included Ozark in their name; it's not clear what this belonged to.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Rail enthusiast buys 1970s train that once carried Queen Elizabeth II for £1
from metro.co.uk
A rail enthusiast has bought a 1970s commuter train that once carried Queen Elizabeth for just £1 – but he needs to raise £10,000 to move it.
Robert Hampton said he feels like he owns a ‘massive Hornby locomotive’ after taking on the three-coach Merseyrail train in September.
The 41-year-old has fond childhood memories of the trains, which he travelled on during trips to the sea and days out with friends in Merseyside.
So when he heard they were to be replaced by state-of-the-art models he decided he wanted to try and save the ‘Scouse icon’.
A rail enthusiast has bought a 1970s commuter train that once carried Queen Elizabeth for just £1 – but he needs to raise £10,000 to move it.
Robert Hampton said he feels like he owns a ‘massive Hornby locomotive’ after taking on the three-coach Merseyrail train in September.
The 41-year-old has fond childhood memories of the trains, which he travelled on during trips to the sea and days out with friends in Merseyside.
So when he heard they were to be replaced by state-of-the-art models he decided he wanted to try and save the ‘Scouse icon’.
A class 507 DMU
NZR Fiat railcar promo, 1955
The year they were introduced into service. For lots of info, see our books.
Monday, May 27, 2024
Amtrak poster for the 'Sunset Limited'
Amtrak trains at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal (Geoff Churchman pic)
Brisbane trolleybus on the Story Bridge, 1956
Among cars of the time a trolleybus is seen near the Kangaroo Point approach on the Story Bridge, 1956.
From 1951 until 1969 the Brisbane City Council operated 36 Sunbeam trolleybuses on a 28 km network.
(Lovf family collection/State Library of Queensland)
Amtrak poster for 'The Cresent' from New York to New Orleans
New Orleans is known as the Crescent City as the Mississippi River wraps around the main part in that shape. The other two long distance trains which go there are 'The Sunset Limited' (from L.A.) and 'The City of New Orleans' from Chicago, see earlier post.
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
cars in Big Spring, Texas, 1959/1960
The 1959 Chevrolet 'Batwing-mobile' seems to be the most recent car visible.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
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Monday, May 20, 2024
Saturday, May 18, 2024
steam train in flooded landscape sunset art
Credited to 'Williston Forge' whoever that may be. Apart from the orange(?) headlight, loco details seem OK. Available commercially as a print.
Berwyn Station, Wales, in steam days art
Thursday, May 16, 2024
A General Electric Co-Co type C36-7i with a tanker train in Estonia
In 2003, all but two (19) of the merged Missouri Pacific / Union Pacific's C36-7s were exported to Estonia and regauged for Russian 5 ft track gauge. Power output: 3,600 hp (2,680 kW).
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Orient Line cruise to Norway poster, early 20th century
A guinea was worth 21 shillings, and as there were 20 shillings in a pound, it would be £1.05 in decimal terms, and this price was thus £21. In today's terms probably this would be about £2000.
More info:
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
a Tatra articulated tram negotiates a tight curve in Prague
Although they were used around Eastern Europe in the Communist era, the Tatra trams were almost an icon of Prague.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
an NZR A class 4-6-2 heads an express to Auckland into a tunnel near Taihape, circa 1920
The tunnel will have been daylighted or bypassed in the electrification deviation works of the early 1980s. For lots more, see our books.
NZR Ab 4-6-2 with a short train at Belfast north of Christchurch, 1965
Ab 826 shunting at Belfast in February 1965; a photo by the late by Bill Pierre. The railway still passes through here but the station has gone.
For lots more, see our books, especially New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour.
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-0
ULUTH, Minn. - It was a scene right out of the early 1950s: a Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range steam locomotive pulling a string of ore cars and a caboose on the line between Two Harbors, Minn., and Duluth. But the date wasn't 1952, but May 12, 2024, as the Lake Superior Railroad Museum's DM&IR 2-8-0 pulled eight ore cars donated to the museum by Canadian National to storage along the museum's North Shore Scenic Railroad.