Vintage Photo From "Powerglide"

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 22, 2014 6:33 pm

This turned up on my Facebook page. The primary subject is the vintage motor vehicles, but check out the location and background!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Those are L&N hoppers in charge of the tank engine; is it possible someone might be able to identify the location?

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... 4023_n.jpg

Not rail related, but the car, clothes, and hats remind me that I live in the wrong time (although I have to admit my skin is a bit light to have been able to hang out with these fellows in the period of the photo. . .too bad, they look like they were a cool bunch):

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Looking a little more on the "Powerglide" page, I came across this:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Looks like a Lake Michigan boat; can she be identified?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Streamlined glamour:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Are park trains "real" trains?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

I think we can guess this location as Oakland, Ca.:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Have fun.

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:40 am

More from "Powerglide" (Facebook page):

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

At the Ford River Rouge plant in 1965; check out the Alco:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

I'm not positive, but this looks like it could be Philadelphia:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

I've blown this one up, and it looks like it might be on the Western Maryland, but where?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... 9691_n.jpg

We'll close out with a look at some more General Motors products:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

whodom · **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:37 am

Lots of cool stuff there; thanks for posting.

Trainlawyer · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:16 pm

I am having fun with these.

The lake boat is Pere Marquette 21. Even though its been many years that does not look like the way I remember Ludington so I think that the picture is at Milwaukee.

The street trackage looks more like the Western Pacific's back alley entrance to Sacramento than Oakland

Thanks

GME

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:41 pm

Powerglide continues to have rail subjects as part of its vintage series--and one of those photos is this one, of the famous pile of Pacific Electric cars awaiting scrapping.

This is from a different angle than what we have normally seen.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 1a2db2f2dd

Bob Davis · **Joined:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:25 am **Posts:** 1025

Ah--the infamous Terminal Island streetcar stack. If you look closely, you'll notice that most of the air whistles are missing. One of the local "oral traditions" among PE fans is that the scrapper (National Metals?) lost money on the job because the Hollywood cars had concrete floors, which made the salvage process more difficult.