Monthly Archives: December 2016

Here are two iterations of the famous French railway map by Gourdoux. This was a commercial map designed to help salesmen. Just click on the image for more detail. Quite apart from the intrinsic geographical interest of the map, these … Continue reading →

Lovely!

Speed

Classic…Lisa Fonssagrives by Toni Frissell…1951

Nice

Here is a picture of a massive steam loco pulling a freight train in the US during the early 1950s. In fact, the engine is a so-called, “big-boy,” designed in 1941 for the Unon Pacific Railroad in the US. These … Continue reading →

Here is the cover of Catherine Merridale’s book about Lenin’s famous railway journey from Zurich to St Petersburg-Finlyandski (the Finland station). It’s a dramatic story…by 1917, the German military leaders could see that fighting on both eastern and western fronts … Continue reading →

Here is a coloured picture of a US steam loco from the 1930s…it’s a pretty ordinary loco under the streamlined body-work. Actually, the thing I liked was the telegraph post next to the railway track. The railway was the first … Continue reading →

This is a photograph by the great US railway photographer, O Winston Link. I’ve posted about him before…I love this photo; you get a sense of the scale of the machines, but also of how dirty and battered these locos … Continue reading →