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WW2 in Finland, newly released photos from the Finnish Defense Forces

repairing tram lines

a barge recovering a locomotive engine

propeller driven snow machine

The images record the war years from 1939 to 1945, spanning three conflicts the Finns recognize as the Winter War (against an invading Soviet Union), the Continuation War (striking against the Soviets alongside the Germans) and the Lapland War (against the Germans for control of Lapland). After spending hours poring through this fascinating archive, I've gathered this collection, just a glimpse of what was made available. A couple of notes on the images -- the swastika was used as the official national marking of the Finnish Defence Forces between 1918 and 1945

Found on http://pixtale.net/2013/05/finland-in-world-war-ii/

trains and things that look like trains, from Fifities50s.blogspot.com

above the 1959 Gatlinburg Tennessee tourist conveyor

Looks a lot like a train engine, but I can see bus dualie tires in the back, and people on the top

The Detroit Zoo train

the Virginian

The GM Aerotrain, more photos in this gallery: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/gm-aerotrain.html

an 1850 boiler explosion left very little of the engine

above, the Mark Twain

Above, the El Capitan

All from various posts on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com

I found a train tumblr and it's loaded!

you'll see such a variety of cool old locomotives, your boiler will explode!

just a sample of the cool trains at http://absurdonio.tumblr.com/tagged/locomotive

the Lone Ranger movie with Johnny Depp has a great locomotive in it, and in the movie trailer. It gets derailed and slides dramatically toward the heros

locomotive collision... must have been at very low speed, probably they couldn't apply enough brakes to avoid the hit.

I have no idea how long I've been looking at this photo, and not posting it. I can't recall where it came from

A train crash in the movie "Hugo" replicates the famous Oct 1895 Granville-Paris Express wreck photo... pretty cool to include that in a movie

here is the original

The engine careened across almost 98 ft of the station concourse, crashed through a 2 foot thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 33 ft below, where it stood on its nose. All on board the train survived, five sustaining injuries: two passengers (out of 131), the fireman and two conductors; however, one woman on the street below was killed by falling masonry. The accident was caused by a faulty Westinghouse brake and the engine drivers who were trying to make up for lost time. A conductor incurred a 25 franc penalty and the engine driver a 50 franc penalty.
Via: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg

I've posted that old photo before, because it's just amazing to me. Trains falling out of buildings... not very often that happens http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-of-most-impressive-photos-ive-seen.html

trains, planes, and automobiles... all wrecked, and someone has put the photos of the wrecks together on a Tumblr

http://framework.latimes.com/2011/11/14/santa-fe-locomotive-goes-through-wall/

for the story on the Sata Fe

I'm only posting a couple that I was interested in, black and whites of old cars, but most of the Tumblr is color and new vehicles http://fuckyeahwrecks.tumblr.com/

one bad train head on collision with another, caused by a bus driver. Really.

Its easiest to make out the start at the 46 second mark

found on
http://pensandolabronca.blogspot.com/2011/09/accidente-de-tren.html

train crashes

Hard to imagine how hard these two hit... they look like they have no dividing line

Imagine the thought going through the retrieval team's minds... anything they do will drop it into the river

found on http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/07/vintage-train-wrecks and they have more, these are just hte ones I found the most interesting

The Interurban Era by William Middleton, is available online complete from cover to cover

the Cincinatti and Lake Eire

This isn't a passenger car. St Louis municipal codes were a problem, so they made this engine look like a passenger car. Expensive, sneaky, but effective

Two engine drivers had a contest to see who could get out of the railyard... they were pretty stubborn at carrying on despite the obvious equality of power, size, and brakes. Gloversville New York