cars in Superior, Wisconsin, 1960s

Present day view (the Audroy Hotel is still operating).

a 4-unit lash-up of new KiwiRail DM class locomotives

 Se earlier post.

traditional vessels in the Mahmoudieh Canal near Alexandria, Egypt

This engraving was published in The Illustrated London News on August 12, 1882, during the Anglo-Egyptian War. (colorized)

classic cars, railroad depot and a Flying A gas station in Niles, California

 

French steam passenger train in the Rhone valley, 1954

In the foreground are the Hermitage vineyards overlooking the Rhône River and the twin towns of Tain-l'Hermitage and Tournon-sur-Rhône in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The train is headed north in the direction of Lyon 

fishing vessels in Kingstown, Ireland, 1889

Kingstown is the former name of Dún Laoghaire, a coastal suburban town in County Dublin. (Colorized)

'I like a big good real book, not a little screen'

1972 Ford Falcon XA GT

scenes of Sydney transport as it was 60 years ago

These are a few stills from this promo film made in 1966. There is a brown L.A. smog effect, hopefully that was just the result of film stock being used and wasn't actual smog.

A Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster bus - and of course a Holden station wagon.

A suburban single decker train departs Milsons Point for the downtown.

The electric suburban train city circle tunnel not far from the Central Station.

The way cargo ships used to look.

traffic in San Bernadino, California, 1950s

See earlier posts.

a BCFe 4/4 electric railcar and trailer on the Martigny--Orsières railway, Switzerland, 1950s

The line still operates -- info

Sitmar Line ship 'Castel Felice'

"Built by Alexander Stephen in Glasgow, she entered service in 1931 as Kenya for British India on the India to Africa service based at Bombay. She was requisitioned as a troopship in 1940 and then converted to a Landing Ship Infantry in 1942 and renamed HMS Hydra and then HMS Keren. At the end of the war she was purchased by the Ministry Of Transport and used to repatriate soldiers until 1948. 

"In 1949 she was purchased by Alva Steam Ship Co. for Sitmar. Her name changed to Kenya then back to Keren then to Kenya again before changing to Fairstone in 1950. Later that year she reverted to Kenya and then in 1951 she was towed from lay-up in Holy Loch under the name Keren. She was rebuilt at Genoa and in 1952 sailed on her first voyage from Genoa to Australia as Castel Felice. She then entered the South America service and then in 1954 used for transatlantic service, first from Bremerhaven to Quebec then from Southampton to New York. This mixture of routes continued until 1957 when Sitmar won the British Government migrant contract to Australia, and from then she sailed Southampton to Australia. She was broken up at Kaohsiung in 1970."  (from ship-rex.com)

sailing ship in Coleraine, Ireland, late 19th century

Which isn't stated. (colorized)

Present day view

two NZR Ab class 'Pacifics' with a westbound passenger train at Springfield in 1931

 For lots more see the book On the TransAlpine Trail. (colorized)

1960 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Coupe

A promo postcard of the time. 

a BNSF GE ES44C4 leads a freight train through Washington state rocky landscape

It was built in July 2012, seen here a couple of years later amid basalt pillars on the Fallbridge Subdivision near Lyle.  (Mike Repp pic which was on the cover of BNSF's 2015 calendar).

'would you like to read a good real book with me?'

Japan National Railways class EF58 electric locomotive

A total 172 units of this 2-C+C-2 axle arrangement type, 1500 Volt DC electric locomotives were built between 1946 and 1958. Here one is depicted hauling a blue passenger train decorated with a "Sakura" (Cherry Blossom) headboard, characteristic of 1950s/1960s Japanese children's railway books magazines.

Length 19,900 mm (65 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Width: 2,800 mm (9 ft 2+1⁄4 in
Height: 3,947 mm (13')
Loco weight: 115 tonnes
Maximum speed: 100 km/h (97 mph)
Power output: 2,550 hp

cars in Sonora, California, 1950s

Present day view

Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation garden ornament

Available commercially.

1950 Cadillac Series 61 or 62 Sedan in New York City, early 1950s

It's the type of car that would have been used by Mafia bosses among others.  The location is Washington Square West looking towards the Empire State building in the distance and the Hotel Holley is now used for NYU accomodation.

Present day view

1948 Nash Ambassador Super

1947 Panhard Dyna X84

This was a lightweight, front-wheel-drive French sedan intended to save fuel after World War II

1947 Ford Super Deluxe Coupe

More pics

'here comes my tablecloth Uber'

A Fiat 600 from between 1955 and 1969, an iconic rear-engined city car.

a French TGV on the Italian side of the Alps

On its run from Chambéry (Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux) in France to Turin (Torino Porta Susa) through the Mont Cenis (Fréjus) tunnel. Currently a new high speed long base tunnel is being built to bypass the most mountainous section of the line, just has been done with Gotthard route in Switzerland.

'I like good real books, not little devices'

Gulf Mobile & Ohio railroad F3A in Chicago, 1972

This engine with road number 883A was built in June 1947 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) as a 1,500-horsepower cab unit -- the classic "chicken wire" mesh screens covering the upper side radiators was a signature styling element of early-production F3 units. The pic was taken from the Roosevelt Street bridge of The Plug commuter service between Chicago Union Station and Joliet Union Station, Illinois.

The loco was retained by the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio (and later the Illinois Central Gulf) alongside its stablemate 880B because it was equipped with an internal steam generator, which was required to provide heat to the vintage passenger cars seen behind it.

The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio was officially taken over on 10 August 1972.when it merged with its long-time parallel competitor, the Illinois Central, to form a new 9,600-mile system known as the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (ICG).

once upon a time on French narrow gauge railways in sugar beet territory

The yellow triangular road warning sign saying BETTERAVES (French for sugar beets) warns drivers of slippery road conditions from fallen beets during the harvest season. This network originally served local sugar refineries to haul crops from the fields.

The railway line is narrow-gauge 600mm (a bit under 2 ft) track. It was the last operating survivor of the massive military trench railways built to supply the battlefields of World War I.

The locomotive is Franco-Belge N°2836 (CFCD N°10), an 0-8-0T built originally in 1945 for industrial and sugar-beet transport, and it is now classified as a French Monument Historique (National Heritage Site).

1986 Dacia TL GTL Sedan and Wagon

Dacia is a Romanian automotive manufacturer established in 1966 and owned by France's Groupe Renault since 1999.

SNCF X-5500/5800 class autorails in Pont-d'Hérault station in 1952

Diagrams of the X-5500/5800

This is located in the commune of Sumène in the Gard department of France, along the former Quissac-Le Vigan railway line at kilometer post 6 from Le Vigan on the single-track 46.2 km standard-gauge line. The line opened for the Ganges-Le Vigan section in July 1874, and the station building later found new life as a local school after passenger services ceased in 1969. Closure for freight took place in 1989.

More info

Present day view

British Rail class 76 electric locomotive seen in 1953

The prototype named Tommy was completed in 1941, followed by 57 units built in the early 1950s. Tommy was oiginally classified by the LNER as Class EM1. 

Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, they were 1.5 kV DC electric Bo-Bo type mixed-traffic locomotives built specifically to operate on the steeply graded Woodhead Line connecting Manchester and Sheffield via the Woodhead Tunnel. They hauled heavy coal and industrial freight trains over the Pennines until the entire class was withdrawn when the trans-Pennine section of the route closed in July 1981.

More on the class

The pic was was taken at the eastern portal of the Woodhead Tunnel, near Dunford Bridge in South Yorkshire.

traffic in Flinders Street, Melbourne, 1953

The W class trams were almost as much an icon as the Flinders Street station building. The main color today is more creamy and the VR sign with occupations available has gone. See earlier posts.

green, turquoise and yellow small gas station colors, Ukraine

Rather eyecatching.

an empty ore train hauled by two IORE electric locos from Narvik to Kiruna, Norway-Sweden, 2010

Passing through the Tornetrask station, obviously in autumn. This was once Dm3 locomotive territory, see earlier posts.  

"IORE is a class of 34 electric locomotives built by Adtranz and its successor, Bombardier Transportation, for the Swedish mining company LKAB's railway division, Malmtrafik. The class is a variation of Adtranz's Octeon modular product platform, thus related to Bombardier's later TRAXX platform. The locomotives are considered to be one of the world's most powerful locomotives and haul iron ore freight trains on the Iron Ore Line and Ofoten Line in Sweden and Norway, respectively. The 8,600-tonne 68-car trains are hauled by two single-ended Co′Co′ locomotives, each with a power output of 5,400 kW (7,200 hp)," says Wikipedia (more here)

From an old calendar, pic credited to Mikael Lundberg.

driver's cab view of the tracks, pulling out of Modane, France, towards the Mont Cenis tunnel

The Arc river is on the left. See earlier posts.

'I much enjoy a good real book in bed'

French diesel railcar Bugatti Présidentiel XB 1008 from 1933

Originally used by the CdF de l'Etat then the SNCF after nationalisation from the beginning of 1938. They had a relatively short lifespan due to high fuel consumption and the last was withdrawn in 1958. 

Of the 88 Bugatti railcars only one was preserved: number four of the first Présidentiel series, built in 1934. It was used as an inspection vehicle until 1970. In 1980 the Bugatti was restored to its original condition and nowadays stands in the Cité du Train museum at Mulhouse, not far from the place where it was built over 90 years ago.

1950 Mercury Monarch

1956 Bedford A2 truck

2004 Daihatsu Copen 660 TP Conv Coupe 5M