Sunday, August 25, 2024

London Underground advertisement


No date but the reference to 35p rather than 7/- indicates it's after decimal currency was introduced (1971).

oldtimer steam train in the Pacific Northwest art

 


A generic scene produced in China, but it still looks good.

NZ's TranzAlpine long distance train on Two Mile Straight on the east side of the Main Divide.

For lots more, see the book On the TransAlpine Trail. (KiwiRail pic)

trams in New Brighton, Christchurch, January 1948


With Boon-built 154 tram and ex-decker trailer 143. Self Help on the right, a forerunner of the supermarkets, was a grocery business started circa 1922 by Benjamin Sutherland, an ex-employee of New Zealand Railways. The stores existed at least until the early 1970s. (Ross McQueen pic.)

preserved steam locomotives on the Trans-Siberian railway, 2014

 

'I love a good real book'

1971 Vauxhall Viscount



 

imaginary art protrayal of a 90-ton Baldwin 2-8-2 saddle tank


It shows the locomotive hauling a string of empty log cars and a water car up hill to the loadout. Baldwin built many industrial locomotives using a standard configuration with minor alterations to the customers' preference. The bridge construction is also typical of logging railways where use was made of easily obtainable materials. Design was for a limited life span as the tracks were often re-located as the various locations were "logged out".