Wonderful vehicles from the magnificent Studio Ghibli and Mr Miyazaki movie "Castle in the Sky" 1986

I'm probably the last person in the world to see this movie for the first time... especially for a adoring fan of the amazing Hayao Miyazaki movies

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the Pennsylvania 8479, left to the weather and the sun before 1990, and photographed occassionally til 2007 as it rusts away

photos are from http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=75776
the locomotive is next to the Philiadephia Inquirer, in Swedeland Pennsylvania if you are in that neighborhood... stop by and get an updated photo to share

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Steampunk East Tumblr has posted some great stuff...

 above is a photoshop of a locomotive over the top of the tank... it's pretty good!

the Isabel

and yup, this is the first time I've posted a vacuum. 

http://steampunkeast.tumblr.com for a lot more

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a rat rod on a train theme

the hood was made from a semi fuel tank, the grill looks like a semi truck's rim... on the pickup bed are railroad spike pullers, held to the top of the bed sides with railroad spikes, and the hood ornament is a spittoon
Found on http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ 

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1923 Marmon Herrington (love their creations) the original road train, the Damascus to Bahgdad run

How this came to be is written up in an article http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198104/the.nairn.way.htm in which the Nairn brothers found a need and filled it with a bus route between Damascus and Baghdad, cutting the route in 1/3rd the previous standard time.

90 percent of the travelers used Nairn... it was a dangerous time, natives were hostile, water was no where around, and few vehicles could make it. Nairn charged the equivalent of $50.

The Nairn brothers stayed in the Syrian area after World War 1, and realized that the overland route had been unused since Vasco De Gama figured the way around the southern tip of Africa. So the brothers took a plow and made a trail between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. The plow didn't create the trail... the plow was in case they got lost, they could then follow the furrow back to civilization

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/521142.html 

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I found a new website that celebrates cool photography, airplanes, celebs, motorbikes, race cars, etc.. Silidrome.com very cool stuff, not much info, but cool photos

 The coolest, the Fonz. On a Triumph

 A Corsair getting used during down time as a hammock

 Steampunk looking monorail

 Don Yenko in 1960 or 61

 BMW bike, great photo

 What board tracks were... huge gaps between the boards! Looks just like the 1922 Indy racing Frontenac
I posted last November... wire wheels, not that common

 Drifting around a corner in a Delage

 1910 Brighton Beach

 1903 Renault

 Generva Mudge, the first woman to have a drivers license, and was a race car driver

 Mooneyes on the helmet and headlight area, and a straight six

 the Abernathy kids, age 13 and 9, drove across country on their Indian in 1913
... notice the banner hanging from the handlebar, it says US Tires
there is a lot about their story, so late in life the youngest kid's wife and daughter put together a book. The boys were raised by their dad, and somehow got hooked on being exploited for cash prizes, ala the cross country ride, drive, or whatever - craze that newspapers were using to sell papers... beginning at age 5 and 9. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0966216601/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=giftbasketsfr03-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0966216601&adid=1DDBRAT23E67XAH6S6N3&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanishedamericana.com%2Fkids%2Fmore-information-on-the-abernathy-kids%2F

Sliding around a corner one handed, and shifting with the other

 A Flying Merkel

 Amelia Earhart

 1906 steam shovel and locomotive, near Boston

 Burt, 1970. A better resolution image than the one like it I've posted before

 Australian that is holding his dog, sitting on what's left of his Harly with a can of VB on the tank. It burnt in the horrible wild fires that struck down so much of Australia in 2009

 Le Mans 1959, the year Carroll Shelby won

 Coolest series of amphib planes ever

The Vincent year by year visual identification guide... now why doens't Harley make one? Anyone have a link to one?

So what is the name about? A silodrome is the "Wall of Death" like the one that Fearless Elbert and his Racing Lion rode on... and that was one of his first posts... he has a lot of cool stuff I've posted years ago, like Elbert and the lion, Burt Munro, the Fonz, old race cars, old motorcycles, and so on... so much cool stuff, that the above is just a glimpse at the ones I liked the most when browsing through http://silodrome.com/ enjoy!

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105 year old steam locomotive in nearby Poway is nearing boiler replacement time.. it's only been 75 years since the last one

story from http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/05/old-locomotive-running-out-steam/ 

it gets a tourist run 2wice a month, but the boiler is just OLD and patched for the last time.

the engine is a 1907 Baldwin, and is at the Poway park with the train restoration faciltiy (cool place that I went to in 2007 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/06/any-day-around-trains-is-good-day.html )

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old and unusual vehicles that are getting emailed around this week

 I believe the above is a bread delivery truck... must be successful to afford the coachwork!

 very elegant tour coach tram... this would not be good in any area with weather, but terrific for Southern California... all we get is sun from March to December.. yes, I am bragging. It's expensive too.

 the above... is EARLY! 1890's? I think! Victorian to Edwardian for sure

 one tiny tracked tourer

 Movie studio lot transport? Tourist carrier?

 She must be in incredible muscular shape to push pull that cycle

 No notes with this email of photos to indicate why two images of this cycle car are here, it's the same motorcycle rear, and I guess the front is the same, but at a later time, when he added headlights and the trunk on the roof

 An orient buckboard above

Thanks to commentor Boonie, the above people carrier is identified as a Lister Auto Truck, and a website link I am grateful for was offered that displays a great number of images that demonstrate a variety of these small industrial motorized service craft used in the 1920's and 1930's  http://www.autotruck.org/apps/photos/album.jsp?albumID=3840394  and below is a better look at one

Another reminder that there is always more wheeled machines that I've never seen or heard of to discover! 

 I've posted about this motorwheel http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=dynasphere it's the Dynasphere of Dr Purve

it was too big to be able to turn when needed... 

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