Wapwallopen

  Candidate for the best locomotive name ever. This freight engine was built by Baldwin in 1865 for the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad. Note the auxiliary roof over the coal section of the tender, probably provided for the fireman's protection.

 PS, "Wapwallopen" is actually a town in Pennsylvania, and is a native word for "place where the wild hemp grows".

Making a cut with a lathe

 

From a South Bend instruction manual from 1920. That's a cut depth of nearly an inch in steel. The flat belt on my South Bend wouldn't have enough traction to do that...

GM parts

 I recognize this as probably a steering king pin on a 50s GM car or truck but the box has no part number. I like the care that GM put into the design of a box for a lowly mechanical part.

 

Monday Mystery, Clamp

 This looks like a really useful thing for... some thing... any ideas?

Chrysler for 1955

 Twin-Tower tail lights that say "Stop" with great authority.... 

Sidecar Sunday

 

Wrenchking

  A patent pending wrench, made in the USA. There is an odd springloaded step in the open end which apparently provides a ratcheting action. Unfortunately I did not try it out. Does it work?

 

Beginning of a era

 To my mind, these 350 Hondas were the beginning of the seventies, a new era for Honda styling.

USS Akron and airplane

  Practicing launches and retrievals of one of the three biplanes carried by the dirigible USS Akron. 

The idea was for the airship to act like an flying aircraft carrier, carrying small biplanes for reconnaissance and fighter protection. The idea did not work out, the USS Akron was destroyed in a crash off New Jersey during a thunderstorm before it was 2 years old..

The Daily Mirror, 1914