Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett Smith
The American Airways airliner picture above is from: http://www.centennialofflight.gov/
Below, from YouTube archives, is a glorious piece of early 1930s corporate propaganda by American Airways, the predecessor of American Airlines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCnWLR28pfE&NR=1
This film was made before the advent of the DC-3 airliner and when the main passenger plane of AA was still the Curtiss
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Emmett Smith
More pictures like this can be found at www.cbu.edu/~mcondren/UP-844/UP-844%20048-700.jpg
Skip Weythman (who in fact did NOT take the above picture!) is a video photographer who chases and films steam trains like some people hound down the highway after tornadoes! Below are as many of his clips from YouTube, of live footage of Union Pacific Northern [...]
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Emmett R Smith
England’s LNER Mallard Locomotive Going To Beat Hell…Even At Rest! Learn More At… http://www.nrm.org.uk/collections/loco/mallard.asp
These are the five parts of the old Learning Channel “EXTREME MACHINES” – “WHEELS of STEEL” show.
“WHEELS of STEEL” 1/5, includes film showing England’s LNER Mallard locomotive underway while setting the unbroken
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett Smith
This an expanded selection of moving picture and still footage available on YouTube, of the Union Pacific RR Big Boy
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Emmett Smith
Here follow a number of clips from YouTube that show something of the evolution of commercial and military “flying boats” in the 1920s and 1930s. I think you can probably tell that I am most taken by the Iris and the later Martin M-130 China Clipper — they both have that swell “early days” [...]
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Bodwyn Wook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland
Here is a good old British film about the 1948-9 Berlin airlift, complete with Sunderlands
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett R Smith
In the “Golden Age of Steam” videos linked below, I got wind of a reference to a one-of-a-kind 4-4-4-4 “duplex” locomotive built in the 1930s for the Baltimore & Ohio RR. Naturally, I had to go googling around…
…and…
…here it is! Notice the opposed cylinders at opposite ends of the boiler. I located [...]
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Emmett Smith
http://military-photo.blogspot.com/2008/12/soviet-mig-15-military-jet.html
Here! are a flock of links to YouTube video footage of the MiG-15 and F-86 Korean War jet fighters. The first is to this film made by the Red Brothers to ballyho their own plane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcaPAtP4U2A&feature=PlayList&p=36CD8BA47C2C176C&playnext=1&index=31
Next is a short history of
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett Smith
“The Golden Age of Steam Trains,” compiled on YouTube by KH990j, needs no introduction. It is railroading history in North America on the grand scale, with a bow to English steam, and so…all aboard!
part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh5wvNwa57U
part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4W1lM7fK68&feature=related
(Parts 3 & 4 show a Big Boy locomotive being rebuilt — a huge job!)
part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdTdXO_dCk&NR=1
(Part 4 also [...]
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Bodwyn Wook
The picture of a retired Roadmaster is from: http://www.theredlondonbus.com/
And, here is a charming videogramme, from the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/journey_by_a_london_bus_TNA
It is a product, from 1950, of the British Colonial Film Unit; and, ’twas directed to the viewing attention of Dominion and Empire non-white visitors, to England: the goal being socialisation, specifically to the norms of lower-middleclass [...]
