This photo of the famous Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad #490 Hudson was taken at the B & O Museum in Baltimore back in 1989. The locomotive is an L-1 class 4-6-4 steamer. It was built by Alco, but not in the Schenectady shops. At the time of this writing, reports indicate that this marvelous machine has been indoors at the museum for a long time, thus preserving it for the future.
On the right is a photo of Lewis Hamilton’s 2010 Mercedes MP4 25A racing car with which he won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal and the Belgium Grand Prix. This is the sort of car that you see racing on the TV (unless you are lucky and rich enough …
Britain seems to be a bit closer to WWII than the US is. That may be an incorrect impression, but, either way, it should be no surprise. There are any number of museums and memorials dedicated to various aspects of the war, and this is one of them. Pictured on …
This Handley Page Hastings is on display at the Newark Air Museum in Nottinghamshire, UK.
