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Been a long time since I posted a train

Saturday, May 8, 2010 Labels: train

Via: http://vintagecottagefrench.tumblr.com/

only the greatest photographers have a portfolio of magazine covers

Friday, April 9, 2010 Labels: photographer, photography, steam locomotive, train

from http://www.art-dept.com/artists/mccurry/ and http://www.stevemccurry.com/main.php The portfolio of Steve McCurry is awesome and amazing. He is or was a photographer for National Geographic Magazine I requested permission twice by email to both websites, and haven't heard a thing from them...

Bizarre variety of photos from 5window tumbler, a lot of cool stuff though

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Labels: AC Cobra, airplane, drag racing, drag strip, dragsters, Hot rods, slingshot dragster, Station Wagon, steam locomotive, train

For another shot of this Cobra, and a write up, see http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/bit-player.html

more at http://5window.tumblr.com/

Black and white and cool all over

Sunday, March 28, 2010 Labels: bumper cars, celebrity, concept car, crash, Ford, Gullwing, Mercedes Benz, Nascar, Packard, Porsche, tires, train, train wreck, wreck

Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl

Nixon in Paris 1957

Bumper cars at a British carnival

The concept car Ford Seattle

Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career

Daytona Beach racing 1953

Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950

Cincinatti 1950

Looks like James Dean's Porsche

Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi

From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

Harbor Springs, Michigan, circa 1906. "Excursion logging train." The smallest train I can recall seeing

Saturday, March 6, 2010 Labels: logging train, Shorpy, steam locomotive, train

via: http://www.shorpy.com/node/7786 from finding it http://roughingitblog.tumblr.com/page/5

I don't see how a propeller is going to push along a train

Labels: streamliner, train

1931 Schienenzeppelin

Full write up at: http://phreddy.tumblr.com/post/408535916/schienenzeppelin-frame

In a lonesome railroad yard in Michigan

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Labels: street cars, train

these just put follish notions in my head of getting one and making a summer place out of it, or making it railroad safe, and paying a railroad company to link up and see America by rail in my own car.... not that I have a nickel to my name, but you have to start with a dream, a hope, and if everything works out, you may see it all happen. Just look at how this blog started as things I posted so I could email a link to friends instead of emailing them all the cool and fun stuff I come across!

Lots of cool photos over at the HAMB, here's a couple from a thread about the history of Los Angeles

Monday, March 1, 2010 Labels: ambulance, Dealership, delivery truck, drag racing, parts, pre 1930's gas station, slingshot dragster, tools, train, trains

That is one great photo.

Very cool socket wrench holder! That's clever!

Craig Breedlove built the Spirit of America in his garage!

This is how many oil derricks there were all over Los Angeles, above in Brea, below in Huntington Beach, 1958

The first the time I have seen a delivery truck in use to deliver when new

Drive by banking?

Big 'ol ambulance

Via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4927350

One of the most impressive photos I've seen, the Oct 1895 Granville-Paris Express wreck

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Labels: steam locomotive, steam powered, train, train wreck, wreck

The engine careened across almost 98 ft of the station concourse, crashed through a 2 foot thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 33 ft below, where it stood on its nose. All on board the train survived, five sustaining injuries: two passengers (out of 131), the fireman and two conductors; however, one woman on the street below was killed by falling masonry. The accident was caused by a faulty Westinghouse brake and the engine drivers who were trying to make up for lost time. A conductor incurred a 25 franc penalty and the engine driver a 50 franc penalty.
Via: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg

Snowblower train in slow motion gettting through 10 foot high drifts

Friday, February 19, 2010 Labels: snow machines, train

image from http://www.savetheenzos.com/post/342087498/snowblower-train-corvette-forum via http://friendship-classics.tumblr.com/page/15

For something to see happening skip to the one minute mark, for a close up of the blower, skip to the 5 minute mark, for it ot get moving and make progress skip to the 8 minute mark

I found a cool website, Mega Moto... I think you are going to love the variety and unique things they post there, here's a sample

Friday, February 12, 2010 Labels: Amphicar, beer truck, Cadillac, Custom, Davis, Dymaxion, french, Harley Davidson, Lamborghini, Lincoln, Packard, Phantom Corsair, Scooter, tour bus, train, VW, WW1, WW2 Helica

the cool tagline of Mega Moto is : Cars, Trains, Motorcycles, Planes, Airships & Other Awesome Modes of Conveyance

A WW1 mobile carrier pigeon coup... yes, that was the best communication technique they had available in the field of battle .

I've posted somehting about this before, and just can't recall what... beyond there was just one that made it through the years and still exists, was a 1920's car but only on 2 wheels, the little buggy wheels are for holding it up at stops

Brockhouse Corgi WW2 camp scooter

1938 Phantom Corsair http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/1938-phantom-corsair.html

Volkswagen museum bus... I hope to find out more about this

Jack Conrad's band... wow, very cool!

Not sure yet what scoooter this is... looks slightly like a Salisbury

the photography of Gaston Jacquin 1935

A lamboghini and wonder of beauty, the 1963 350 GTV

Above, 1971 Star Streak motorhome

Above, something called the Stiletto

1955 Packard Request

1955 Flajole Forerunner

1915 Senate Subway Railroad under the nations capitol, Washington DC

1924 Amphibious Fusetti

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion, one of two to survive, probably number 3 of the trio Fuller made. One was found in the backyard of a Arizona suburb in the early 70's by a Car Life reader after they did a story on the Dymaxions, by a fan of Fullers interesting cars. It wasn't bought by a collector, though Harrah's buyers tried, a couple college students got money together and then let it be shown in Museums in the US... more on this story in another post.