Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-poweredlorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries, buses and locomotives.
The Tramway Historical Society Inc. is located at the Ferrymead Heritage Park in the Christchurch, New Zealand suburb of Ferrymead and operates the standard gauge Ferrymead Tramway. Trams have operated at Ferrymead since 1968, with progressive extensions built between 1970 and 1984 allowing trams to operate within the boundaries of the Heritage Park. The Society also operates and own a collection of historic trolley buses and diesel buses.
The East Anglia Transport Museum is an open-air transport museum, with numerous historic public transport vehicles (including many in full working order). It is located in Carlton Colville a suburb of Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is the only museum in the country where visitors can ride on buses, trams and trolleybuses, as well as a narrow-gauge railway.
Trams in China and Japan Trams in Asia were well established at the start of the 20th century, but started to decline in use in the 1930s. By the 1960s, the majority of systems had been closed down. Extensive tramways still exist in Japan and Hong Kong. Recently, more modern systems have been built in China.
The Pilatus Railway (German: Pilatusbahn, PB) is a mountain railway in Switzerland and is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. The line runs from Alpnachstad, on Lake Lucerne, to a terminus near the Esel summit of Pilatus at an elevation of 2,073 m (6,801 ft), which makes it the highest railway in the canton of Obwalden and the second highest in Central Switzerland after the Furka line. At Alpnachstad, the Pilatus Railway connects with steamers on Lake Lucerne and with trains on the Brünigbahn line of Zentralbahn
Commissioned in 1889, a gradient of up to 48 percent, about 30 minutes travel time: that is the steepest cogwheel railway in the world in figures. Meter by meter it scales the way from Alpnachstad to Pilatus Kulm, passing alpine meadows and striking rock formations.
Uncovering the truth behind this incredible barn find Over 180 classic Porsches, Alfas and Lancias were found in a Portuguese barn and, no, they’re not for sale Many of you might have seen these pictures already. That’s because they’re incredible, but they’re also very old. These pictures were first posted in 2007 on a Portuguese car forum and then hastily deleted with no information as to where the cars were or why they were left to rot in a barn.
A rare collection of 36 classic Corvettes that were hidden away for 25 years is being prepared for sale – and one model alone is expected to sell for half a million dollars.The classic American muscle cars were originally won in a competition organised by music channel VH1 and were then sold to Germanborn graphic artist Peter Max who wanted to incorporate them in his work.The collection consists of every model of Corvette released between 1953 and 1989. 36 Corvettes found in underground building
The reality of the “barn find” There’s the ubiquitous owner. The shed. The initial discovery of the car. The sudden heart-rate increase over the possibility of a rare model. The rushed assessment of the car’s value, based on all the little accessories. The fantasy of telling the story around drinks at Barrett-Jackson. In some ways, the 24-hour media cycle around old cars has ruined the barn find for us, because we all expect to uncover that unicorn we mentioned earlier. And, by its nature, a unicorn is the rare exception, not the rule.
An Alpine coaster or mountain coaster is a type of roller coaster which uses a bobsled-like sled or cart to run down a track usually built on the side of a hill. It is similar to an alpine slide which also uses a sled to run down a smooth concave track, but on an alpine coaster the sled runs instead on tubular rails and is not able to leave the track.Both these types of track slide are sometimes denoted with the German name Sommerrodelbahn. They are often built by ski resorts in order to use existing winter infrastructure and provide additional summer income, although some installations are standalone.
Steam Engined Road Transportation 