Vintage shots from days gone by!

I dont know about that, I have always been a fan of the Alco PAs

 

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Is this Riverside California? I had to back and find this thread
( http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497724&highlight=de+anza ) but it's not the same building.

 

Good boy JIMI!!!!----& now you know the rest of the story!!

 

I don't know one from the other but appearance aside, clearly they're designed for different applications. One is more versatile with couplers at both ends that the other (with the long swooping front) doesn't have.

The NYC pictured above can be used for freight or passenger while the other is most likely passenger only.

 

HEY!!---Sice you guys like old trains---Here's one visiting here today!!

 

The coupler is hidden but it is still there, it swings in behind a cover plate when not in use.

 

Who knows more about those MFG license plates?

 

1938 Hollywood / Beverly Hills

 

Lewis, you seem to be speculating.

 

Thanks for clearing it up, MurphMan. My Dad worked on couplers for nearly four decades, and a coupler looks like a coupler to me. I never thought much about their use on engines, just regular rail cars of various types.

If I were to speculate, I'd think that anything as heavy as that engine would need a coupler at the front end, too, at least for moving it around in a yard or shop without having to fire it up. Heck, even battle tanks have a mechanism(s) so they can be moved -- or retrieved.

 

Gloria Swanson's 1929 Isotta Fraschini

 

...and here it is today, currently under full restoration.

 

cute

 

I found this location in the 300 block of N. Central Ave in Parsons KS. It is on the SE corner of Central and Clark. It is the former site of Moss Motors, a Nash Dealer in Parsons that went out of buisness in 1956.

 

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