You know, I'm not a fan of Asian art or architechture, but I am absolutely astounded by the craftsmanship that goes into it. Just amazing!
A drawing of the class 06:
I have a Brawa version of it sitting in the display case, the PRR S1 engine alone is almost 4/5 as long as the 06 001 with the tender.
Jones 3D Modeling Club https://www.youtube.com/Jones3DModelingClub
Good discussions on this thread. Here are 2 more poster ads featuring the S1. Jones states these 'all weather Ads' heralded the end of the Fleet of Modernism'. Last we see of the S1 as well. Sorry about the clarity.
Not Poster Ads but Keystone magazine covers. Every one of them is fabulous but these are my Gold, Silver and Bronze winners. Which are yours?
Gold
A glimpse of the T1 not in its full streamlined glamour type pose but in regular workaday service that was with us for far too short a period of time.
Silver
A great perspective on things. The Pennsy in happy days.
Bronze
The Passenger Shark Bp20. Another look to a future that was powerful in its imagery. An all to fleeting scene. We hardly knew ya.
Flintlock76I see something's missing though... I can see whoever took the picture of the model got a little shy. I can only speak for myself but I don't mind seeing a swastika now and then, depending on the context of the display of course.
Discussions and contemporary sources indicate the large swastikas were special 'publicity' around the time of the 1936 Olympics.
We see them again for wartime propaganda but circumstances were somewhat different then...
Miningman Good discussions on this thread. Here are 2 more poster ads featuring the S1. Jones states these 'all weather Ads' heralded the end of the Fleet of Modernism'. Last we see of the S1 as well. Sorry about the clarity. Not Poster Ads but Keystone magazine covers. Every one of them is fabulous but these are my Gold, Silver and Bronze winners. Which are yours? Gold A glimpse of the T1 not in its full streamlined glamour type pose but in regular workaday service that was with us for far too short a period of time.
Very nice collection, Vince! I love them all! They are like a breath of fresh air when I am busy helping some folks fighting for their basic human rights. No, I am not traveling Georgia or North Korea but please forgive me that I cannot reveal where I am for the sake of victory. I have never seen these poster ads before but I own a hard copy of the Keystone Magazine Volume 34 - Number 3 (T1 heading to Pittsburgh). I bet the first two posters are quite rare that I can't even find them on google photo search or eBay listing. Absolutely beautiful, all of them are gold to me. Although I found the F.O.M brand was much more appealing, I found these "All-weather fleet" poster ads are also vivid and colorful.
By the way, I am reading some materials about the Southern Pacific 4-10-2s and Daylight train in spare time recently.
Don't worry about Georgia in the US Mr. Jones, Georgia in 2019 is NOT Georgia in 1949, those days are gone for good, and rightfully so.
The OTHER Georgia next door to Russia? I don't profess to know what's going on there.
There is a Dutch graphic design/railway history website,
www.retours.eu
which has wonderful examples of european railway posters and other visual emphera. There is also a section devoted to the operation of several Canadian Pacific observation cars in the Austrian Alps around 1912-1914.
Wow. Someone's done a lot of work. Take a few nights to get through all this and it's worth it.
Another archive worth searching contains not posters but rather issues of Railroad Stories: https://pulpcovers.com/?s=railroad+stories
One of my favorite cover illustrations:
Here's another archive: http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/t709.htm
Interresting crossover eh? January 1914:
http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/b20.htm#A176
Volume 1, number 1 October 1906:
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
That is a great cover!
I have a pile of these I've picked up over the years and the cover art is pretty much the whole story of the steam to Diesel transition. I frequently just study and admire them, even after all these years. ... "for anyone else who knows a Good Thing when he sees it"... you bet!
ZephyrOverland-- loved the story about the Canadian Pacific cars in the Austrian Alps. Siezed by the Austrians at the outbreak of WWI then handed back over at the end of the war.. sadly sold to Italy, some becoming Mussolini's personal train cars and a few lasted until the 70's and then unfortunately scrapped. What a shame.
Truth is stranger than fiction, just like they say.
Mikes got to have some fun with it all:
ZephyrOverland There is a dutch graphic design/railway history website, www.retours.eu which has wonderful examples of european railway posters and other visual emphera. There is also a section devoted to the operation of several Canadian Pacific observation cars in the Austrian Alps around 1912-1914.
There is a dutch graphic design/railway history website,
Here's something you can't do anymore.. at least not in a heavyweight and to as many places and routes.
... And how about getting hauled around for a portion in a Baldwin Demonstrator!! Burble Burble.
Miningman Mikes got to have some fun with it all: https://archive.org/details/rmm_1910_03 https://ia800401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/rmm_1910_03/rmm_1910_03_jp2.zip&file=rmm_1910_03_jp2/rmm_1910_03_0046.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 https://ia800401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/rmm_1910_03/rmm_1910_03_jp2.zip&file=rmm_1910_03_jp2/rmm_1910_03_0047.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 https://ia800401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/rmm_1910_03/rmm_1910_03_jp2.zip&file=rmm_1910_03_jp2/rmm_1910_03_0048.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 https://ia800401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/rmm_1910_03/rmm_1910_03_jp2.zip&file=rmm_1910_03_jp2/rmm_1910_03_0049.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 https://ia800401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/rmm_1910_03/rmm_1910_03_jp2.zip&file=rmm_1910_03_jp2/rmm_1910_03_0050.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 https://ia800401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/rmm_1910_03/rmm_1910_03_jp2.zip&file=rmm_1910_03_jp2/rmm_1910_03_0051.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 https://ia800401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/rmm_1910_03/rmm_1910_03_jp2.zip&file=rmm_1910_03_jp2/rmm_1910_03_0052.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 https://ia800401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/rmm_1910_03/rmm_1910_03_jp2.zip&file=rmm_1910_03_jp2/rmm_1910_03_0053.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 The tracks are still there but the real Penn Station is gone, so they can do stuff like https://www.rodeonewyork.com/
Man, I just love that rodeo poster!
Reminds me of the bumper sticker I see on a number of cars around here...
"A womans place is on a horse!"
Also fun, note that this 1969 travel voucher submitted by Col. E. E. Aldrin has abbreviations at the bottom for Pullman accomodations:
Pullman accommodations to the Moon and return. No one ever going to beat that. Must of been an upper berth by the price.
Firelock/Wayne-- that is a great poster but a rodeo at Madison Square Gardens in the Big Apple? As much as I enjoyed this years Calgary Stampede, holding that event where once stood Pennsylvania Station is just all wrong. It belongs outside in big sky country. Big bucks though, those cowboys and cowgirls make millions. Of course the station space inside was so vast you likely could have held the event right inside the station.
Rodeos, Buzz Aldrin, Pullmans and Pennsylvania Station all in one thread, figure that one out!
Penny TrainsAlso fun, note that this 1969 travel voucher submitted by Col. E. E. Aldrin has abbreviations at the bottom for Pullman accomodations:
$33.31 for the round trip - quite a bargin when figured on a per mile basis
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Vince, cowboys (and girls), ropin' and ridin' and such in New York City go all the way back to Buffalo Bill's "Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders of The World!"
Want to see Buffalo Bill? Here he is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pZ8k00qyLk
What a commanding figure on horseback. What a man he must have been.
MiningmanRodeos, Buzz Aldrin, Pullmans and Pennsylvania Station all in one thread, figure that one out!
Nothing new around here.
1) No way I'm going down any of those 'stairs'
2) Powerful imagery from Down Under
3) New Haven with beautiful simplicity
4) Not a poster ad but magazine cover to tantalizing to pass up.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/294832
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO_n_M1JwDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCLjm6aExY
Miningman1) No way I'm going down any of those 'stairs'
Do you suppose they would have had to assemble that whole crazy looking rigging every time?
Don't worry folks, it never happened.
With the winds aloft at the Empire State Building the blimp mooring experiment was one big PITA! It demonstrated the impracticality of using the building's tower as an airship mooring.
So, for those big German Zepps it was off to Lakehurst and a rendezvous with the Jersey Central.
More cool posters
Can't do this anymore.
I'm not getting this one.. ???
For our Australian friends.
Not to left out .. New Zealand!
What used to be a common sight in the Big Apple.. now gone
Bring this back...and you have my vote and full support.
Very cool poster ad.
How on earth did this get destroyed.. I mean really. Well the Pennsy is long gone so what goes around comes around. Ye reap what Ye sow.
The grand finale.. a beautiful T1 back when it was important and exciting.
MiningmanI'm not getting this one.. ???
It's channelling the whole Buz, Tod, Nick Lewis vibe. Cue the Nelson Riddle theme music. (Presumably the 'other guy' is taking the picture...)
Problem, of course, is that the actual car was supposed to be beige... both in the original and 'as left to Nick by his father' in the reboot. But that probably doesn't really matter to people who still 'see' the series as they colored it in their imagination watching in B&W.
The situation with the dirigible mooring was funnier than you may think. Part of my 1970s approach to putting a building over Grand Central involved a house and landscaping on top of the lightweight structure, over the tuned mass dampers, and some questions involved the best way to anchor the trees ... and the house ... and the prospective inhabitants ... in the Manhattan weather up there. It turns out to be not uncommon to get wind gusts well over 100mph even at the lower prospective altitude ... those at the mast on the Empire State Building were clocked at over 145mph. It would be amusing to see any prospective locking mechanism hold just against the static drag of a good-sized airship in that wind ... let alone the fun if the direction veered and the ship 'weathercocked' with the expected angular momentum to be absorbed in the coupling.
Thing was, as with the heliport on the Pan Am building, the 'buzz' was about multiple modes of transit in (cue echo chamber effect) The Future! And easy access to the air without runways or long trips was as charming an idea then as it is now. At least until you start thinking about opportunies for terrorism and spectacular collateral damage.
Imagine 'Oh! the humanity' drifting down into the chasms of midtown Manhattan. Makes the fun of negotiating the stairs clipped to safety lines as the platform at the base seems to revolve like a restaurant seem smaller somehow.
Overmod states " It's channelling the whole Buz, Tod, Nick Lewis vibe. Cue the Nelson Riddle theme music. (Presumably the 'other guy' is taking the picture...)"
Ok, I get that and thanks, but what is the locomotive(s) and what railroad are we looking at. In fact what year is this supposed to be?
Miningman Overmod states " It's channelling the whole Buz, Tod, Nick Lewis vibe. Cue the Nelson Riddle theme music. (Presumably the 'other guy' is taking the picture...)" Ok, I get that and thanks, but what is the locomotive(s) and what railroad are we looking at. In fact what year is this supposed to be?
It looks like the Grand Canyon RR. Can't guess what year it's supposed to represent. Maybe they want you to think it's the 50s by the 'vette, and they don't know the loco is somewhat latter.
Ok thanks Midland Mike. So modern day, some dude in a vintage vette but the Route 66 sign?, artistic license I assume. I've been down there and all the signs read Historic Route 66 along certain portions of differing highways.
Well since it's the silly season how about this, which theoretically may not be all that far fetched.
Canadian Pacific has an awakening, a Renaissance, looks at VIA Rails Canadian and concludes its route and exceptionally poor timekeeping is an abonination. They remember who and what they are and conclude the time to return to destiny is now.
They resurrect the TransCanada Limited Montreal/Toronto to Vancouver on home rails. The train is a gigantic hit, folks want to ship parcels in their express cars just to get the status and pride of its special stamping. It's so popular a second TransCanada Limited has to be inaugurated and small connecting trains from towns and cities not served by its route are now provided.
The whole country once again finds itself and life is good.
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