1966 Mercedes-Benz 250 SE

the Cunard Line piers in New York harbor, 1950s

It is not used for such now -- historical info

Czechoslovak Railways poster, after WW2

 From 1993 the CSD was split with the break up of the country into CD and ZSR respectively.

'Mary Valley Rattler' heritage train in action, Queensland, Australia

On the 41 km line between Gympie and Brooloo with one of the preserved Queensland Railways C17 class locomotives, #967.

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1931 Marklin catalog art

 

A Fliegender Hamburger railcar in the center, see earlier post.

1959 Ford Taunus 12M, 12M Super

Dutch advertisement. -- "Elegant, powerful, economic"

"Compagnie Nederland" shipping line poster

 This was a common way to refer to various Dutch shipping companies, including the historically significant Royal Nedlloyd (originally Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland or SMN), and the modern Wijnne Barends.

1972 Vauxhall Victor promo art

1965 Buick Electra 225 Wildcat

'I love browisng for good real books'

British steam tram hauls two carriages along an embankment

Obviously it's a model diorama.  Thomas the Tank Engine fans will recognise it as Toby.

Swedish Da electric locomotive art

 This was from a book for adolescents on trains.  See earlier posts for lots more.

poster for a steamship service between Lübeck, Germany and Abo Finland, circa 1900

"Every second Saturday in summer, every 14 days in winter." It shows the SS Poseidon completed in December 1898 at Grangemouth, Grangemouth Dockyard Co. in Scotland. 745 dwt, 650 IHP, 57.01 x 8.77 x 4.88 meters; 24 passenger berths. Sistership Virgo > Mira.

In 1898 Poseidon's first homeport became Turku (Åbo) in Finland. The company went bankrupt in 1905: in 1917 the Russian Government requisitioned it and in 1918 the Finnish Government used the ship on voyage from Danzig to Vaasa arriving on 18 February carrying arms, ammunition and Finnish Jaegers. In June 1918 it was returned to its owners. On 25 September 1939 en route from Helsinki to Lübeck, the Germans captured it to Swinemünde but on 4 October it was returned to owners in Lübeck. It 1944 it was back to Finland.

In 1954 it was sold to Nasem A. Gandour of Tripoli. Pilgrim service began in 1957 with a diesel engine conversion to a motorship. In 1960 to Jeddah. Mohamed Aly Ben Laden. In 1968 to Aden, Slave Island, scuttled as a breakwater for small ships.

1974 Mercury Marquis Brougham

East Berlin 'Rekowagen' tram and trailer

The Trabant parked in the distance and the cobblestones indicates this was taken in the DDR era or just after it.

Route 83 was: Mahlsdorf – Mahlsdorf Süd – Bhf. Köpenick -- Köpenick – Schloßplatz -- Wendenschloß

1956 Foden trucks advertisement, Australia

NZR Ec electric locomotive at Heathcote

The length says this is a suburban train from Lyttelton to Christchurch and not a boat train from a ferry,  One notes the runaway track on the left to protect the single track in the tunnel.  The era of electric trains ended in 1970, see the book Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand.

1972 Dodge Charger

1980 Mercury Marquis

'I hope these good real books give you pleasure'

the car chase in the movie 'The Seven Ups' (1973)

As in the movie Bullitt (1968) the late great stunt driver Bill Hickman in a 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville portrays one of the bad guys in the chased car and does his own driving.

Roy Scheider, playing the cop chaser, drives a 1973 Pontiac Ventura Sprint coupe. Scheider is heavily doubled by Hickman's good friend and fellow stuntman, Jerry Summers.

According to the movie producers the chase wasn't rehearsed as the producers thought permission for it would never have been granted if the authorities knew what was planned.

a charming old tram plus bridge approach scene at the Rheinbrücke, Ludwigshafen, Germany, circa 1910

This was built in the 1860s and spanned the 274 meters between Ludwigshafen and Mannheim.  Unsurprisingly it didn't survive WW2 and was destroyed in March 1945.

The replacement bridge from the 1950s was named the Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke in 1967.

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a barbecue for truckers

 No details on where it can be obtained.

1959 DKW F360

1984 Mercury Grand Marquis

AEC Merlin MBS514 at Heathrow Airport, 1969

The AEC Swift was London Transport's first 'modern' single-decker bus. In 36-ft (11 meter) form, London Transport christened the chassis 'Merlin', although they retained the Swift name for later shorter length buses.

The first trial batch of 15 Merlins, delivered in 1966, had bodywork by Strachans, pronounced straun.

The tail of the plane is of a Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E delivered to British European Airways in May 1968 and withdrawn in November 1984.

EMD SW8 switcher from 1953

These Bo-Bo type with an EMD 567B prime mover were produced betwen 1950 and 1954.

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Southern Pacific 'Sunset Limited' poster, 1952

This train began in 1894 and continued in the Amtrak era from 1971. From 1993 to 2005, the Sunset Limited operated an extended service to Florida, terminating in Miami from 1993 to 1996 and in Orlando for most of 1996 through 2005, and becoming Amtrak's longest and only coast-to-coast train route. Major stops between New Orleans and Miami included Mobile (Alabama), Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Orlando (Florida). However, the route east of New Orleans was permanently halted in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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V8 engine coffee cup for motorheads

 

a Swedish railcar after a collision with a freight car on the wrong track, 1958

Location not stated.

'I like to teach using good real books'

1959 Humber Super Snipe Sedan

1938 Humber Super Snipe advertisement

Baldwin 'sharks' at Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ, late 1950s

With buildings of Manhattan, NYC, in the distance and the Harborside Terminal to the left.

The Pennsy took 72 A units and 31 of the cabless B version of these, officially the BLH RF-16 model. The 160 Bo-Bo type units built had a 1,625-horsepower (1,212 kW) prime mover. The Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation delivered them between 1950 and 1953. A total of 109 cab-equipped A units were built, along with 51 cabless booster B units. As was the case with most passenger locomotives of its day, the RF-16s came equipped with a retractable, nose-mounted drop coupler pilot. Unlike competing units from EMD and Alco, the RF-16 used an air-powered throttle, meaning that it could not be run in multiple unit operation with EMD or Alco diesels without special MU equipment.

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cars in Randolph Street E from Dearborn Street, Chicago, 1963

(via American Geographical Society)

Present day view 

Saxon IV K narrow gauge, 0-4-4-0T Günther-Meyer built for the Royal Saxon State Railways

The Saxon IV K 0-4-4-0T Günther-Meyer type were built for the Royal Saxon State Railways with a track gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in). A total of 96 were built between 1892 and 1921, making the Saxon IV K the most numerous narrow gauge locomotive in Germany. In 1925 the Deutsche Reichsbahn grouped these engines into their DRG Class 99.51–60. 

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The example pictured (originally numbered 99 606) is preserved at the  Verein zur Förderung Sächsischer Schmalspurbahnen e.V. (Carlsfeld)

1955 Studebaker President Speeder

This was only produced for one year. Info

graphic showing the origin of the Australian 'Ghan' train's name

The Afghan camel.

The train began running in steam days in 1929, obviously this shows the early diesel era.

See earlier posts and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghan

1958 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith

1929 Morris 4-door sedan graphic art

'I like to get comfortable and then read a good real book'

steam passenger train between the main Singapore and the Kranji station, 1900s

Singapore-Kranji Railway

The first period of Singapore’s railway history refers to the planning and realisation of the Singapore-Kranji Railway by the then colonial government. On 16 April 1900, then Acting Governor Alexander Swettenham “cut the first sod” at the site of the Tank Road station to commence works for the line.2 A year before, the Legislative Council had approved Cecil Clementi Smith’s plan to build a railway through the island. Although the station at Tank Road became the “Singapore terminus”, there were earlier plans to route the line on the other side of Government Hill (Fort Canning) and to commence service at the end of Orchard Road near Dhoby Ghaut, but it was eventually altered. It was probably the high cost of the real estate there that led to the change in the plans.

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1950s Armstrong-Vickers advertisment featuring a Vickers Viscount and a jet fighter

Chongqing, China -- where a metro line goes through a whole apartment block

MyBestPlace - Chongqing, A Subway Passing Through a Building

Uruguay 2-6-0

As can be seen, the rear of this cigarette trading card from the 1930s makes no mention of the locomotive at all, however, it seems to depict an N class, see here for info.