'I bought this new railway book in my lunch break'

'Double-header steam up HorseShoe Curve', Pennsylvania, art

by Theodore Xaras, dated 1981 although the scene itself will be 30 years or more earlier. The lead loco looks like a Pennsylvania Railroad K4 class. Available commerically as a print.

'I bought the cheapest semi-truck on marketplace - will it run?'

 

This seems to us a hardcore thing to do, but it's an instructional video on old truck restoration.  There are several other videos on this theme.

Joyeux noel à vapeur

A painting of an SNCF 231 C (4-6-2) in snowy landscape by Marc Desobeau, available commercially as a print.

1966 Chevrolet El Camino 350 V8

 Lots of pics

Merry Christmas steam train

cars on Polk Street, Amarillo, Texas, 1950s

Approximate view today

 Approximate view now (the FW Woolworth building is still there but now used as a cocktail lounge).

Amarillo, Texas, is called "Bomb City" because it's home to the Pantex Plant, the U.S.'s only facility for assembling and disassembling nuclear weapons, making the city synonymous with nuclear arms, a nickname embraced locally and featured in art and culture.

2ft gauge caboose, Innisfail, Queensland, Australia

Or guard's van as they were known in A/NZ as well as the UK. The length doesn't look more than about 6 ft. This was designed for use on the Innisfail Tramway.(ARHS Collection via the University of Newcastle Library)

ZIL-127 bus in Moscow, early 1960s

 

Fokker F28-1082 Fellowship

 241 of these were built between 1967 and 1987. The Fokker F28 directly competed with the American Douglas DC-9 and British BAC 1-11.

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