These 16 Vintage Photographs Show How Glamorous Flying Used to Be in the 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteBefore the 1980s, flying was a much classier experience. Back then airlines aggressively competed with each other to […]
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Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Train Running the Narrow Gauge Track Through the Animas River Canyon, ca. 1880s
This post was originally published on this siteDurango was built as a company town by the Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) Railway in 1880 with […]
Go-Devil on the Little Bookcliff Railway, 1903
This post was originally published on this siteThe Go-Devil was a gravity driven rail car that ran on the Little Bookcliff (LBC) Railway from 1892, […]
Interurban Electric Train Between Grand Junction and Fruita, Colorado, 1911
This post was originally published on this siteBetween July 14, 1910, and October 31, 1928, there was a daily electric passenger train service between Fruita […]
Vintage Photos Show Mainly Ambiance Around the Dutch National Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) in the 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteNederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) is a Dutch company, the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. Founded in 1938, […]
50 Amazing Panorama Photographs Show What New York’s Fifth Avenue Looked Like in 1911
This post was originally published on this siteFifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It stretches north […]
Fascinating Pictures of London Drivers in the Eighties
This post was originally published on this siteChris Dorley-Brown spent two summers in the mid-1980s photographing drivers stuck in traffic jams in and around East […]
The Paternoster: The Non-Stop Europe’s Doorless Elevator
This post was originally published on this siteA paternoster is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for […]
1948 Davis Divan: The Three-Wheeled Sedan that Wheeled Itself Into Oblivion
This post was originally published on this siteThe history of auto design is filled with failed ideas and strange prototypes that never made it to […]
Incredible Photos of New York City’s Subway in 1980
This post was originally published on this siteIn the spring of 1980, Bruce Davidson began his ‘Subway’ project, which focused on New York City’s subway […]
Over Fifty Years, the V-Shaped Three-Point Safety Belt From Volvo Saved Well Over One Million Lives
This post was originally published on this siteThere is a saying that the simplest is often the best. However, it was only towards the end […]
Stilt Cycle Has Two Legs Instead of Wheels From the 1930s
This post was originally published on this siteWooden legs replace the wheels on a stilt cycle made by a Los Angeles man who proudly boasts […]
Sony Portable TV Set for Taxi Passengers in Japan, ca. 1963
This post was originally published on this siteA woman in Japan uses a portable micro television in the back of a car, invented by the […]
Vintage Photos of Type B Bus “Pigeon Loft” During World War I
This post was originally published on this siteFrom its start in the summer of 1914, the demands of the First World War provided the impetus […]
50 Amazing Photographs of Auto Transporters From the 1970s and 1980s
This post was originally published on this site Car shipping can be traced all the way back to the invention of the automobile. Cars were […]
40 Sombre Black-and-White Photos of Streets of Manchester in 1963
This post was originally published on this siteManchester went through enormous and difficult changes in the sixties. After WWII cities such as Manchester lost power […]
Street Life of Shanghai in 1947
This post was originally published on this site“A great, wicked and quite extraordinary city” was how, in 1947, LIFE described Shanghai. In 1947, four million […]
Amazing Photos of RMS Aquitania During Her Life
This post was originally published on this siteRMS Aquitania was a British ocean liner of the Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She […]
Vintage Photos of NYC Subway Riders From the Late 1970s to Early 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteFrom 1977 to 1985, famous Swiss photographer Willy Spiller lived in “The Big Apple”. During his seven-year stay, […]
Amazing Photographs Capture Street Scenes of Sydney From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
This post was originally published on this siteThese amazing photographs were taken by Frederick Danvers Power from between 1898-1926. The photos show street scenes of […]
Road Safety Series in Sydney Streets, 1938
This post was originally published on this siteA shocking rise in road fatalities prompted the NRMA (formerly National Roads and Motorists’ Association) to launch new […]
Amazing Vintage Photos of London Buses Used to Take British Soldiers to the Western Front During World War I
This post was originally published on this siteWhen the First World War broke out, the era of the horse bus drew to a close. London’s […]
Photos of Southern Railway 4501 Visiting Chicago in June 1973
This post was originally published on this siteThe photos from Marty Bernard were taken from the Roosevelt Road Viaduct and the trains were on the […]
Amazing Views of Esso Northumbria Tanker Under Construction at Wallsend, UK in 1969
This post was originally published on this siteThe Esso Northumbria was the first of a series of Very Large Crude Carrier ships, built by Swan […]
A Native American Man (Shoshone) Looking at the Central Pacific Railroad, ca. 1860s
This post was originally published on this siteIn this photograph by Alfred Hart taken between 1865–1869, a Native American man looks down upon a newly […]