Jaulny station then and now

Having mentioned Jaulny in Lorraine, France, here is the station: although no longer used as a railway building it is in a lot better condition today than it was at the time of this photo.  Being occupied by the Germans, the town was the subject of an American bombardment on 12 September 1918, which obviously didn't spare the station.


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a model of Hell station now available

Now you can have your own HO scale model of the famous Hell station in Norway, not far to the north of Trondheim - see earlier post. It is available in the pale yellow of the 1950s and the brown of the 1990s.  Info here

US Coast Guard tug 'Raritan' at Grand Haven, Michigan 1960s

the General Post Office, Featherston Street, Wellington, late 1930s

The GPO was considered an earthquake risk after the 1968 earthquake and replaced with the CPO in 1972, after which it was demolished - and left as a hole in the ground until the mid 1980s.  Another photo considered for but not used in the book Wellington: a Capital century.


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international train in the hills of Lorraine, France

Headed from Frankfurt to Paris gare de l'Est, seen near Jaulny - a mix of DB and SNCF cars headed by a BB 15000 class electric.  These days such services are provided by TGV, ICE and Thalys sets.

'I reduced my clothing so I could take home more transpress nz books'

Some airlines now even weigh your carry-on bag.

Swiss rail humor from steam days

"The crisis of transport." Using old papers as a substitute for coal.  Dated 1918, WW1 period.

railcar in Bolivia

Viacha station near La Paz. "Autovagon Wickham Leyland." No date.

China Post postcard for the KiwiRail DL class

Dalian in China is where these latest diesel-electrics were built (except for the prime movers which came from MTU in Friedrichshafen in Germany). The first batch of 20 are in service with a further batch of 20 on order.

vehicles on Emerson Street, Napier, 1920s

All of it history: most of it was destroyed in the 1931 earthquake.