1999 Toyota Yaris

This was the first year of the model.  More pics and info

bathtub transport in Bangkok

There was a bit of a deluge from the sky recently.

cars in Vine St, Hollywood, L.A., July 1948

This is looking north along the west side of Vine Street between Sunset & Hollywood Blvd, with Tom Breneman’s at 1539 N. Vine.

"Tom Breneman’s Hollywood Restaurant, a restaurant and live radio broadcast venue on Vine Street. Radio personality Tom Breneman became enormously popular as the host of Breakfast in Hollywood, an audience-participation morning radio program. By the mid-1940s, the show reportedly reached about 10 million listeners.
"After Breneman’s era, the building at 1539 N. Vine Street served as ABC’s West Coast studios from 1949 to 1956. Merv Griffin later acquired the Streamline Moderne complex in the 1970s, and it became the TAV (Trans American Video) Celebrity Theatre, where The Merv Griffin Show was taped."

(Pic from the Huntington Library photo archive via Vintage Los Angeles)

Present day view

1966 Austin Mini Moke

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NZR Ja 1267 with an overnight passenger train at Timaru, 1950s

Ja 1267, a 4-8-2 type, was built in 1950 and is now preserved by Mainline Steam.  For lots more get the book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour.

1948 Hudson Commodore sedan

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viking longboat display in Vyborg, Russia

Vyborg is close to Finland and once belonged to Finland.

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

a scene on Mexico's famous Copper Canyon Railway

 More pics with info. Chihuahua is Cartel territory but this probably isn't something they care about.

visiting Machu Picchu, Peru, in a car adapted for rail, 1959

In America these had names like Galloping Goose, Toonerville, Skunk and Putt Putt.  The Machu Picchu line is 3 ft gauge and still operates for the many visitors to this famous attraction in the mountains.

The approximately 110 km (68 mile) line runs from Cusco and stations like Poroy and Ollantaytambo down the Sacred Valley to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu Pueblo).

the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway - Britain's most appealing miniature railway

A 7-mile (11.2 km) line on 3-ft gauge through Lake District scenery using steam engines, now in its 151st year.

https://ravenglass-railway.co.uk/

a Baldwin-built 2-6-0 from 1908 in Tacna, Peru

This was being restored at the Peruvian National Railway Museum (Museo Nacional Ferroviario) there a few years ago.

1955 DeSoto Diplomat Delux

 

a DB Uerdinger Schienenbus (railbus) in Uruguay

The State Railways Administration of Uruguay (AFE) bought a complete fleet of these two-axle passenger vehicles from the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) consisting of 56 total vehicles: 28 powered units (16 from the single-engine VT 795 series and 12 from the dual-engine VT 798 series) as well as 28 trailer cars (including both standard trailers and a trailer cab). They became iconic fixtures of Uruguayan passenger rail, serving regional and commuter routes fanning out from Montevideo's Central Station. 

They had an exceptionally long second life in Uruguay, staying in regular passenger service for over 30 years before being phased out, the last one in 2012.

About the only obvious external changes were the diagonal stripes over the added yellow patch on the front, and altered windshields.

1972 Opel Manta A (or Opel 1900)

1967 Volvo models

1949 Packard Eight Station Sedan

More pics and info

'I like to experience a good real book, would you?'

 

Pennsylvania Railroad MP54 electric train in Philadelphia, early 1950s

See earlier posts and here. (colorized)

1948 Studebaker trucks advertisement

1946 Ford Bond Bread Delivery Van

 

a look at FS's old electric glory machines in the La Spezia depot

See earlier posts for details. No comentary.

B & O E8 set travels through Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1949

 Likely hauling a prestige passenger train.

1960 Edsel Ranger

an NZR Da class diesel with the Wellington-Auckland 'Scenic Daylight' train at Peka Peka, 1960

For info and lots more, get our books (colorized).

cars in Surfers Paradise south of Brisbane, Australia, 1963

A great array of colors! We think the red and off-white car in the foreground is a 1953 Holden FJ Special Sedan. (National Archives of Australia collection)

1957 MG MGA

'I get so much more from a good real book than a little device'

1972 Saab 95

 

cars on the then US 75 in Houston, Texas, circa 1959

Now part of Interstate 45 at Allen Parkway.

1972 Saab Sonett III

FS E424 electric locomotive and local passenger train at Ancona, Italy, 1959

See earlier posts for more.

Approximate equivalent view today

a 3-car tram at La Corniche in Marseille, France, circa 1910

The prominent building on the cliff was originally the Palace Hotel (later Restaurant La Réserve). Below are a power car and 2 trailers. See earlier posts (colorized)  

Approximate view today

L.A. news helicopter crash kills 3 -- 2 news crew and 1 on the ground

 

Those who live in L.A. know what a fundamental role these news helicopters play in collecting TV news stories around the region and NBC LA / Telemundo staff are understandably devastated by this crash that happened while they were doing their job, in this case reporting on a fatal crash between a bus and a SUV.

Automobile Club of Argentina poster, 1927

Automóvil Club Argentino

First National Tourism Conference

to be held in

Alta Gracia

sponsored by the Government of the Province of Córdoba and the municipalities of Córdoba and Alta Gracia

Tourism Week in the Córdoba mountain region

Information: Florida 640, Buenos Aires, or General Paz 71, Córdoba

(The poster commissioned by the Automóvil Club Argentino to promote tourism in Córdoba) (*)

(*) This is the text of the advertisement published in the newspaper *El País* in its edition of Friday, 25 November 1927.

City of Córdoba, Argentine Republic.

Irish CIE 2600 Class diesel multiple unit 1965

Córas Iompair Éireann or CIÉ's first batch of 2600 Class railcars (DMUs) were built in 1950 by AEC, as was recommended in the Milne report, another batch of them was built in 1952 for the Great Northern Railway of Ireland along with a final batch being built in 1956. The DMUs consisted of two 120 h.p power cars at each end with CIÉ's standard park royal coaches as intermediates. Later in life the power cars were converted to driving trailers and were operated on suburban push pull services in the Dublin area, this ceased however with the renting of an NIR 80 Class unit for the Bray-Greystones shuttle train in 1987.

The conversion of the sets to push-pull operation was performed by removing the main engines from all power cars and leaving the train lighting generator and steam heating boiler in 50% of the power cars. The 50% of power cars that had the generator and boiler retained had its cab converted into a vestibule and its windscreen blanked out. All but one of the power cars were scrapped in Mullingar and Dundalk in the 1980s, the final remaining power car has been rescued after 30 years of dereliction by the Downpatrick & Co. Down Railway where it will eventually be restored as a push pull control car.

More info

20 things every great American train station had in the 1950s

 

'I like to enjoy a good real book amid lovely nature'

El Coche Motor exiting a tunnel near Córdoba, Argentina.

At the San Roque dam. See earlier posts.

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