planes, trains, automobiles

 

I have shown this one before, but I like it so you're getting to see it again. It's a jet flying out of Ottawa airport in 1964.

France's high speed train, which is now 42 years whisking you through the countryside. 

 

 

and, finally, a Ferrari with Gilles Villeneuve (1950-1982)

 and, tangentially related...

A very funny man, who died far too young in 1994. Starred in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (with another great, funny man, Steve Martin) in 1987. In much less speedy circumstances, the two were trying to get home in time for Thanksgiving (happy turkey day to viridian. and Marina? not sure where you are)

locomotives

 

It may not be surprising to see that these were designed in 1977.

top left - locomotive of the Jezreel Valley train

top right - first locomotive in the Holy Land 

bottom left - locomotive of Israeli railways

bottom right - locomotive at the time of the British Mandate period (1920-1948)

some brightly coloured trains for Sunday Stamps

modes of transport

I have been watching the latest 'Around the World in Eighty Days'

and the balloon trip is the most iconic of the modes of transportation that Phileas Fogg and company took even though it only happened in the movies

Also not actually taken was the Flying Scotsman, though they did travel by train a few times.

 

 

 

 

 

They also travel by sailing ship, and steamers

1999
1976

and, of course, elephant

for Sunday Stamps - transportation

water

In keeping with social/physical distancing, these scenes are all void of actual people.

The Allegro is the newest train featured for the 150th year of railroads in Finland. I could not find which lake this is the train is bisecting.


It doesn't seem like the National Parks are closed but only gatherings of 10 or fewer are allowed.











These spots all look perfectly idyllic and quiet.

Ferdinand von Wright painted this double water scene of snow surrounding a still lake in Haminalahti where his family owned an estate. 

It won the most beautiful stamp competition in 2007.

for Sunday Stamps - water

Alishan Forest Railway

The Alishan National Scenic Area is right in the middle of Taiwan. The Japanese used the mountain for logging and built this railway for that purpose. The diesel train that runs along the old original wooden rails has now become a major tourist attraction.

Puffing Billy

Puffing Billy, a narrow gauge railway line in the Dandenong Mountains near Melbourne.

Sunday Stamps II - 12

unsent, 1991
Bophuthatswana, was a self-governing homeland within the 'old' South Africa of the Tswana people. Never officially recognized by any other country, these homelands were reincorporated into South Africa in 1994. Bophuthatswana was a vast territory stretching across the Transvaal to the Western Cape and bordering with Botswana (the country i originally confused this name with)

a steam locomotive, Class 6A, from the pre-union era, first run in 1896.


for riding the rails: trains and trams

streamliner

Santa Fe's "Super Chief" traveling thru the Orange Groves, California
One of the Santa Fe's great fleet of streamliners with gleaming steel coaches, drawn by 1800 H.P.  Diesel-electric locomotives, passing through the Orange Groves of California. 39 ¾ hours from Chicago.
unsent circa 1940