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Friday, June 27, 2014

1966 Plymouth Sport Fury

reverse curve on an interurban near Shawnee, Oklahoma

Or an S curve as it is also known; a feature that model railroaders like to add as it is more interesting than a straight line.

It's not clear exactly what line this is; there was an Oklahoma City-Shawnee Interurban which was purchased by the Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway in May 1930 and in 1964 sold to the Santa Fe. There was also the Shawnee-Tecumseh Traction which ran 6 miles (10 km) between these two places from September 1906 to January 1927 when it was replaced by buses.

Ghana old vehicle stamps

Morris truck goods carrier (boneshaker); Bedford Mummy Truck [sic] (boneshaker) with trailer; Setra bus; Albion double decker bus.

cargo and passenger ship 'Mokoia' in Wellington harbour, 1910s

A Union Steam Ship Company ship built in 1898 by Denny of Dumbarton which had a 1 x 3 cylinder triple expansion engine, with a single shaft for 1 screw; 255 nautical hp and a top speed of 16 knots; grt was 3502, length 100.58 metres (330 ft), breadth 13.14 metres (43.1 ft) and depth 6.98 metres (22.9 ft). Passenger capacity was 212 first class, 124 second class and 91 crew. Cargo capacity was 3,393 cubic metres (119,820 cubic feet).

The Mokoia was used as a troopship in WW1 (see the book Voyage to Gallipoli) and withdrawn from service in 1920. However, the ship's fate wasn't determined until 1929 when it was reduced to a hulk and sunk in 1931 in Carey's Bay, Dunedin.

Budd custom passenger train vehicles advert, 1950s

'there's lots of food for thought in books'

trams on Willis Street, 1930s

Or Willie Street as an overseas website amusingly spelt it (named after Willie Stroker?)... This is about 200 metres further north and about 25 years further on from the previous view. For lots more, see earlier posts and of course, the books Wellington: a Capital century and Wellington Transport Memories.

tram on Willis Street, Wellington, late 1900s

St Peter's Church is still there but the rest of the buildings are history. See the books Wellington: a Capital century and Wellington Transport Memories for lots more.

Khojak tunnel, Pakistan

Nothing to do with Telly Savalas. The Khojak Tunnel (a.k.a. Sheilla Bagh Tunnel) is a 3.91 km long railway tunnel constructed in 1891 under the Khojak Pass in the Killa Abdullah district of Balochistan, near the Pakistan-Afghan border at Chamman, 1,945 metres above sea level.

The tunnel remains one of the longest tunnels in South Asia, and the longest in Pakistan (expected to be surpassed by the 8.6 km Lowari Tunnel, currently under construction). The turrets on the portal in the early scenes were removed at some point. More here