Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (3 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

American inventor Claude H. Freese introduces his future passenger plane with 500 seats.
(Sankei Shinbun on April 19, 1929). Seems an advanced airship.

 

[fubar57]

Cool, certainly looks doable

 

[at6]

It's thorough nowadays.

Bank staff at a client house of shrine.
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Jackpot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Jackpot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Certainly.

 

[Shinpachi]

Happy kids at an orphanage in Nakano, Tokyo on December 27, 1946. They were presented candies for Christmas by Americans.
This generation taught my elder brother English proudly "When you find Americans, say - I am hungry. Please give me something to eat."

 

[Wurger]

 

[at6]

Happy there, but would later sadly realize that their families were no more.

 

[Shinpachi]

Happy there, but would later sadly realize that their families were no more.

Agreed.
They led the anti-war/anti-alliance movement in the 1960s.

 

[Shinpachi]

Anti-war/anti-alliance movement in the 1960s.

 

[fubar57]

That is one heck of a large club

 

[Wurger]

 

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

That is one heck of a large club[/QUO

 

[Shinpachi]

Some of them are still fine.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

The type C56 steam locomotive was one of the most popular SLs as simple and sturdy in the prewar Japan.
160 were produced for the Ministry of Railways during 1935/1939 and 90 of them (numbered 1 to 90) were sent to Thai and Burma during the war.


C5615 in 1936

C5617 in 1936

C5617(Thai 715) in 2003

Two sets were returned to Japan in 1979.

C5631 at Yasukuni Shrine in 2016

C5644 of Ohigawa Railway in Thai color in 2008

C5644 in original color of black

There are still more in Thai and Burma.

 

[fubar57]

The first engine, C5615, wood burning instead of coal?

 

[Shinpachi]

The first engine, C5615, wood burning instead of coal?

That could be coal in 1936 basically but I might be wrong.
According to wiki, the furnace opening of the 90 sets for Thai/Burma was enlarged for wood.

 

[Shinpachi]

46 recruits of IJA 5th Railway Regiment for Indochina at Osaka Port on March 25, 1941.
They were to be engaged in construction of Thai-Burma Railway together with 9th Railway Regiment later.

Test or opening run on the Sittaung Bridge in Burma circa October, 1943.
Locomotive type unknown.

 

[Wurger]