Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts

December 8, 2008

Vintage Photos: More Airships

It's a bird! It's a plane! Is it a drawn frog flying an airship on a vintage postcard and not a photo!

A bunch of great airship photos uploaded by aequor_ at Vintage Photo.

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September 3, 2008

Vintage: Paris en ballon etc

Excursions aériennes. Paris en ballon. Vue Prise du Pavillon Marsan (Château des Tuileries) by Jules Arnout, 1846

"This month I was directed to an excellent site, the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya in Spain..."
- BibliOdyssey: "Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya"


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July 10, 2008

Paranormal: "Silverpilen"

Swedish subway train, C5 model, "Silverpilen".
Photo by: Michael "Bussmicke" Nilsson


"Silverpilen
("The Silver Arrow") is a ghost subway train that haunts the Stockholm Metro, according to an urban legend circulating in the Swedish capital Stockholm. The train is usually referred to as being composed of silver model C5 cars. Only one such train, composed of eight cars, was built; it was manufactured in the mid-1960s as a test and taken out of service years ago and replaced by more modern cars." ...more - Wikipedia

This post is dedicated to MrJ who is being haunted by ghost trains.
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May 14, 2008

Transportation: Yesterday's Airports of Today


"This is a 1935 model for an underground air terminal. After landing, aircraft would go underground to various levels for passengers, maintenance, and cargo loading. Connections to ground transportation are at the lowest level."

Quote and image from The Smithsonian website - America by Air.


Via BibliOdyssey

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