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.
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.
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…
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 "
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,
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:
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.
If anyone is wondering where to start in this wonderful Dutch poster site, may I recommend the section on TEE trains, followed by the “Rheingold vs Edelweiss” section.
I’m biased. I travelled quite extensively on TEEs in 1974 and 1975. There is nothing to match the 1969 Mistral in terms of style and passenger comfort. The compartments had glass partitions and doors and the saloon cars had full dining tables that completely folded up into a pocket in the wall. The seats had wool covers in modern colours.
I’m afraid my collection of models went a bit over the top regarding the Rheingold. I have a full 1928 set of nine cars, a somewhat smaller 1952 set in blue with silver stripes (which can double as the “Blauer Enzian” with the observation added) and a basic 1962 set with the dome and diner with the two deck kitchen (This last is underscale in length, the cars being around 77 ft long rather than the full length and the matching locomotive is really in the 1975 “Ocean Blue and Beige”, and lacks the silver roof.
I do have a photograph taken inside the dome of the Rheingold as it passed the Lorelei. It is a terrible photo on a dull wet day but at least I was there…
While I was lining up a set of brown and cr
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.
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Mikes got to have some fun with it all:
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!
$33.31 for the round trip - quite a bargin when figured on a per mile basis
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.
Nothing new around here. [;)]