NZR N class steam loco heading west to Palmerston North in the Manawatu Gorge

Although at first glance it looks like a painting, it is a colorized version of a b/w postcard we posted in 2012. These days the railway is the only freight route through the gorge, and doing it by road on the other bank will require a bicycle.

1936 Ford V8 convertible coupe

For the UK, as is obvious from the right hand side steering wheel and the price.

vintage Pacific Electric trolley at the Formosa café, Los Angeles

"The trolley in the back is the actually the oldest Pacific Red Car in existence where Mickey Cohen used to run a bookie operation" (Vintage Los Angeles blog)

Interior of Pacific Electric car 913 at 7156 Santa Monica Boulevard.

"It was a dark day in December 2016, when Formosa Café closed down after decades. The ultimate shutter followed a brief run under new operators, who undertook an ill-fated renovation which tore the vintage soul out of the place, leaving a behind a sad gray shell and bartenders who couldn’t mix a drink. When 1933 Group took over the property, they were committed to not repeating that mistake.

"Bobby Green, a co-owner of 1933, and his crack team of fabricators brought back the missing mahogany interior of the 1902 Pacific Electric streetcar which was converted to a luncheon counter and placed on the site in 1925. That trolley car luncheonette, The Red Post Cafe, would later be expanded to become Formosa."

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Mariners Bell, Homer, Alaska

Part of a Seafarers' Memorial at this location at the end of a long narrow spit of land. The inscription reads: "This bell tolls for all the souls set free upon the sea." A pic we took last summer.

lines of horse cabs in Alexandria, Egypt, circa 1910

Two motor cars are in the mid-distance.

Cairns - Kuranda tourist train from the air, Queensland, Australia

A must-do for every tourist who visits Cairns. An option which some take is to return from Kuranda on the Rainforest Aerial Cableway which gives you a ride over the trees. See earlier posts, and this webpage for more info. (QR pic)

'a book is much more insightful than silly social media'

1918 Ford Model T van

With a lady in appropriate period clothes. (Dave Wilson pic)

1930 Cadillac limo as used by Newmans in NZ

The pic looks like it was taken on the northern Kaikoura coast.

1933 Essex Terraplane Eight 342