Friday, March 18, 2016

Mercury Woodie Station Wagon Car Images, 1950

Although Ford Motor Company’s new 1949 station wagons provided both fashion and utility, competitors were hard at work on new features of their own. The all-steel Plymouth Suburban, while only a six-seater, had a folding rear seat that converted in just seconds to a flat load area. General Motors...

Friday, March 11, 2016

Saidpur Rail Station, Bangladesh

Syedpur is best known for its railway workshop. In 1870, the Assam-Bengal railway set up its largest workshop in Syedpur and many Biharis or Urdu-speakers came to work there. The city has many schools and colleges both for boys and girls. Before 1971, more than two-thirds of the population...

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Steam Powered Rail 1804

212 years ago on 21 February 1804 was an outstanding event, which marked the beginning of an era of steampunk. In South Wales, for the first time set off the first train to steam-powered. A small train of five trolleys loaded with ten tons of coal, powered by a steam engine constructed...