Thursday, October 31, 2024
Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg (M.A.N.) ad, 1956
Depicting a VT 08-like "Eierkopf" DMU for the South American Viação Ferrea do Rio Grande do Sul railway company.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
early MG rally car art
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Bentley v. 'Train Bleu' race art, circa 1929
By celebrated artist Terence Cuneo, painted in 1970. Available commercially as a print.
The Blue Train's original incarnation was the Calais-Mediterranée Express, a French luxury night express train which operated from 1886 to 2003. It gained international fame as the preferred train of wealthy and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera during the interwar period. It was colloquially referred to as Le Train Bleu in French (which became its formal name after World War II) and the Blue Train in English because of its dark-blue sleeping cars.Monday, October 28, 2024
'SS Strathallan' leaving port art
Gross Registered Tonnage: 23,772 tons
Length x Width: 664 feet x 82 feet
Builder and Year of Build: Vickers-Armstrongs of Barrow, 1938
First Class + Tourist Accommodation: 448 + 563 persons : Total 1,011 passengers
Sister-Vessel: S.S. Stratheden
Ultimate Fate Torpedoed by U-562 on 21-12-1942, sunk 22-12-1942.
Builder and Year of Build: Vickers-Armstrongs of Barrow, 1938
First Class + Tourist Accommodation: 448 + 563 persons : Total 1,011 passengers
Sister-Vessel: S.S. Stratheden
Ultimate Fate Torpedoed by U-562 on 21-12-1942, sunk 22-12-1942.
a British Railways Peak Sulzer class 45 with a passenger train on the Settle-Carlisle line
The appearance indicates it hadn't been cleaned for some time. In the background it looks like the Moorcock Tunnel.
A total 127 of the 1-Co-Co-1 type diesels were built over 1960-1962. They were withdrawn during the 1980s and 11 are preserved.More (steamingnorth.com pic)
Sunday, October 27, 2024
El Coche Motor in the high altitude desert of Bolivia
ENFE (La Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles del Estado) Bolivia railcar M 337 built by Ferrostaal on an Arica - La Paz run.
Chesapeake & Ohio 'Hudson' type locomotive No. 490
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Madrid, Zaragoza and Alicante railway (MZA) 3rd class passenger car model
HO scale; with the two rigid axles it is probably based on a prototype from the late 19th century. MZA was incorporated into RENFE in 1941, see earlier posts.
1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV Landau Hardtop Sedan
Probably a promotional shot. The loading and unloading from a railroad freight car into the cargo ship recalls a long gone era.
an SP SD45T-2 tunnel motor at the head of a stack train in Arizona, 1987
The SP charcoal and blood nose livery was one of the best in American railroad history in our humble opinion.
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