AEC Merlin MBS514 at Heathrow Airport, 1969

The AEC Swift was London Transport's first 'modern' single-decker bus. In 36-ft (11 meter) form, London Transport christened the chassis 'Merlin', although they retained the Swift name for later shorter length buses.

The first trial batch of 15 Merlins, delivered in 1966, had bodywork by Strachans, pronounced straun.

The tail of the plane is of a Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E delivered to British European Airways in May 1968 and withdrawn in November 1984.

EMD SW8 switcher from 1953

These Bo-Bo type with an EMD 567B prime mover were produced betwen 1950 and 1954.

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Southern Pacific 'Sunset Limited' poster, 1952

This train began in 1894 and continued in the Amtrak era from 1971. From 1993 to 2005, the Sunset Limited operated an extended service to Florida, terminating in Miami from 1993 to 1996 and in Orlando for most of 1996 through 2005, and becoming Amtrak's longest and only coast-to-coast train route. Major stops between New Orleans and Miami included Mobile (Alabama), Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Orlando (Florida). However, the route east of New Orleans was permanently halted in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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V8 engine coffee cup for motorheads

 

a Swedish railcar after a collision with a freight car on the wrong track, 1958

Location not stated.

'I like to teach using good real books'

1959 Humber Super Snipe Sedan

1938 Humber Super Snipe advertisement

Baldwin 'sharks' at Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ, late 1950s

With buildings of Manhattan, NYC, in the distance and the Harborside Terminal to the left.

The Pennsy took 72 A units and 31 of the cabless B version of these, officially the BLH RF-16 model. The 160 Bo-Bo type units built had a 1,625-horsepower (1,212 kW) prime mover. The Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation delivered them between 1950 and 1953. A total of 109 cab-equipped A units were built, along with 51 cabless booster B units. As was the case with most passenger locomotives of its day, the RF-16s came equipped with a retractable, nose-mounted drop coupler pilot. Unlike competing units from EMD and Alco, the RF-16 used an air-powered throttle, meaning that it could not be run in multiple unit operation with EMD or Alco diesels without special MU equipment.

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cars in Randolph Street E from Dearborn Street, Chicago, 1963

(via American Geographical Society)

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