All photos are frame grabs from video below.
Today’s special — Vol. 3 No. 4: An appetizer of planes, trains and automobiles that might have been enjoyed before the main course of, perhaps, Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore in Captains Courageous or the Marx brothers in A Day at the Races.
An open-air barbershop on wheels: one stool, no waiting, ocean view.
For the railroad tycoon on a budget: an Oneida & Western “4-2-0” light rail unit with a reported 350,000 miles on the clock.
Dog hops aboard an American LaFrance pumper, rings bell, climbs ladder, saves victim, reaps reward: All in a day’s work.
New Jersey plops one of its state police troopers into a National Guard plane and, presto, a traffic-free future is realized.
And, Notre Dame wins the International Gold Cup Regatta in Detroit.
Public domain archival footage courtesy of the Internet Moving Images Archive, in association with Prelinger Archives.
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