Thursday, March 5, 2020

Montreal Locomotive Works M636 locomotive


Montreal Locomotive Works produced a M636 variant of the Alco Century 636 (of which 63 were built between 1967 and 1968) on Dofasco trucks for Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway. This was also built in Australia for Hamersley Iron, Mount Newman Mining and Robe River Mining.

Sunday, March 1, 2020

DSB lyntog 'Neptun' at Warnemünde ferry terminal, DDR,1971


Gedser (Denmark) to Warnemünde was a roll-on, roll-off train ferry route.  Those red signs with white text were slogans, the work of the country's communist party and were ubiquitous throughout Eastern Europe.  There was almost no advertising for products as in the West.

1951 Morris truck


1950s Ford Popular hot rod


Not so obvious in the pic are multi-coloured metallic flecks in the paintwork which look impressive in reality.

1953 Lincoln 2-door hardtop