'would you like to read a good real book with me?'

Japan National Railways class EF58 electric locomotive

A total 172 units of this 2-C+C-2 axle arrangement type, 1500 Volt DC electric locomotives were built between 1946 and 1958. Here one is depicted hauling a blue passenger train decorated with a "Sakura" (Cherry Blossom) headboard, characteristic of 1950s/1960s Japanese children's railway books magazines.

Length 19,900 mm (65 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Width: 2,800 mm (9 ft 2+1⁄4 in
Height: 3,947 mm (13')
Loco weight: 115 tonnes
Maximum speed: 100 km/h (97 mph)
Power output: 2,550 hp

cars in Sonora, California, 1950s

Present day view

Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation garden ornament

Available commercially.

1950 Cadillac Series 61 or 62 Sedan in New York City, early 1950s

It's the type of car that would have been used by Mafia bosses among others.  The location is Washington Square West looking towards the Empire State building in the distance and the Hotel Holley is now used for NYU accomodation.

Present day view

1948 Nash Ambassador Super

1947 Panhard Dyna X84

This was a lightweight, front-wheel-drive French sedan intended to save fuel after World War II

1947 Ford Super Deluxe Coupe

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'here comes my tablecloth Uber'

A Fiat 600 from between 1955 and 1969, an iconic rear-engined city car.

a French TGV on the Italian side of the Alps

On its run from Chambéry (Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux) in France to Turin (Torino Porta Susa) through the Mont Cenis (Fréjus) tunnel. Currently a new high speed long base tunnel is being built to bypass the most mountainous section of the line, just has been done with Gotthard route in Switzerland.