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

Soviet electric railway poster 1931

Soviet propaganda poster showing a steeple cab electric loco as a centerpiece and a similar loco hauling a freight train on a bridge above. It states '3690 kilometers' and seems to promote a new train line for the Ukraine for completion over 1932-1933.

Yugoslavia railway poster, 1949

This advertised the 2nd Congress of the Union of Railway Workers and Employees of Yugoslavia in Zagreb from 13-15 March 1949.  It obviously features communist imagery, including an industrial background and a red star on one of the locomotives.

British Railways holiday train poster, 1950s

 Featuring a Class 40 diesel locomotive. The Lincoln green livery was quite an attractive one.

NZR 4-8-4 KA 933 pulling southbound freight at Taihape circa 1959

For lots more, get the book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour. (pic by the late great Jack Creber)

1979 Pontiac TransAm 5.5 liter

a Deutsche Reichsbahn Kriegslok in Czech clothes

A former Class 52 of the DR, a 2-10-0 became CSD 555.129 and is preserved operational, seen here on a fantrip.

pretty on the footplate

Of what we don't know, maybe a pic from a fashion shoot at a British railway museum.

Leyland commercial vehicles advertisement, 1962

(Thanks to Wallace)

cars outside a North East U.S. train station, early 1950s

Which isn't stated.  A still from an Encyclopedia Britannica film.