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Autumn is here: the first blush of autumnal colours are appearing in the Adelaide Hills as The Overland passes the once-busy Bridgewater Station yard: NR6 on 7MA8 Feb 14, 2020
N465 heads the empty Overland consist for placing into the platform at Keswick for the nightly trip to Melbourne on 24-1-92, the photo was taken out of EL53 stabled on the mail siding
The last remaining Overland smokestack at sunrise.
Taken at the Parkway Annex of the Toledo Complex.
Union Pacific 'Centennial' 6931 brings the OME (Overland Mail East) over NAPM's Southridge mountains.
Bruce Rogers modeled his DD40X by kitbashing an Athearn 'blue box' DD40 model with an F45 cab.
Photo by NAPM guest Bruce Rogers.
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In this photo the AEC bus (YRC 45) was not on its usual route as I'd taken it home to the quiet Hertfordshire village where I lived for a few days before the next trip left London for India on 14 November 1971.
On the side door was a summary of the route to India: Belgium, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India. This particular bus never went further on to Nepal.
Photo taken by my father, GWT.
X48 and S308 bring The Overland into Melbourne's Spencer Street station, having traveled overnight from Adelaide. 19-9-1986
Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip that left London for Kabul, on 14 November 1971. The photograph was taken on Christmas Day, 1971 at Persepolis whilst on an excursion from the main route at Tehran. About half the passengers requested to be able to go south and see Isfahan, Persepolis and Shiraz. I charged them enough to pay for the diesel for the 1,200 mile round trip, which took us five days.
This cost them each very little — in those days you could buy about 15 gallons of diesel for £1 (GBP) in Iran – so this side-trip was good value for money. The remainder of the passengers stayed in Tehran until we got back, probably recovering from the gruelling trip so far – just to get this far through the most extreme winter in this region for many, many years. At Isfahan there had been some, not much, snow on the ground, but here at Persepolis there was a welcome trace of warmth in the sun – at last.
On the left is David, Patrick is in the brown coat, and Isabel is smiling because she's spotted the camera.
This trip was unable to get to India due to the war-like political situation between Pakistan and India at the time, so it terminated in Kabul, Afghanistan. All the passengers on this trip were travelling further on, so they did this by taking local buses to Pakistan, or flights direct to India.
A nice looking 1950 Willys Overland Jeep that appeared at the Agricultural Hall of Fame Car Show held in Bonner Springs KS in 2019.
Turkey: December 1971
This photo, taken by John H, shows the AEC bus somewhere between Maras and Elazig, in central Turkey: the shivering passengers are reboarding the bus after they had had to walk for two kilometers in a snowstorm. It had been so bad that I'd been unable to see where the road was so they walked ahead a few metres in front of the bus, and I followed them, as there was steep drop to one side. Also, if the bus had begun to slide off the road then they wouldn't have gone with it – I'd kept the front door open so that if the bus had started sliding over the edge, I hoped to be able to leap out of it. It took five days to drive over 600 miles from the Mediterranean coast to Erzurum, which is on the main trunk road across Turkey to the Iranian border – part of the so-called Eurasian Highway, and in those days still made up of long distances of gravel. I had bought snow chains for the rear wheels in Adana; without them we would never had got anywhere; they were needed until we got to Agri, having finally got over the Tahir Pass, once it had been re-opened after the colossal snowfalls. One section of that trip, from Malatya to Elazig, took a whole day to drive just seventy-odd miles.
The Historic Overland Corner Hotel is situated along the Goyder Highway, 21 kilometres from Barmera in the Riverland, South Australia.
Originally set up as a watering hole for drovers and overlanders operating between New South Wales and the Adelaide Colony, it also served as a temporary camping ground for steamers passing through on the River Murray, which flows a mere 600ft from the hotel. The historic building was erected in 1859, and since that time has served as a staging point, a general store, a police station and even the local Post Office.
In 1965, the building was purchased by the National Trust of South Australia and, with the aid of locally raised and commonwealth funding, the fossilised limestone building was completely restored. It now stands as a beacon of history in the Riverland, and is the oldest structure to remain standing in the area. Today, the Overland Corner operates as a hotel, serving some of the finest cuisine in the Riverland amongst the beautiful backdrop and serene settings of Overland Corner.
With regular live events, several of the finest locally brewed beers and wines, and a friendly and comfortable atmosphere, the Historic Overland Corner Hotel is a 'must visit' location for locals and travelers alike.
Local Accession Number: 2012.AAP.123
Title: Overland, July
Creator/Contributor: Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946 (artist)
Date issued: 1895 (inferred)
Physical description: 1 print (poster) : color ; 49 x 38 cm.
Summary: An advertising poster featuring a large black bird.
Genre: Book & magazine posters; Prints
Subjects: Birds
Notes: Title from item.
Date note: Date from: American Posters of the Nineties.
Statement of responsibility: L M D
Collection: American Art Posters 1890-1920
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
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Overland Route action, as an SP freight heads west behind UP SD40-2 leaders near Granite Point, on May 3, 1981.
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A meet with a westbound manifest impending, this eastbound stack train rolls towards Medicine Bow Wyoming on 16 May 2021.
Future New Overland Park Fire Station 45 and Police Sub-Station at 16279 Antioch Road.
Fire bays are on the right side with police on the left side
Picture ID# 1763, 1764, 1765
HDR - High Dynamic Range
A comparison a century and a half apart.
The one photo I wanted of the eastbound Spike150 celebratory train starting back on the first day of their eastbound journey over the famed UP mainline for which they were built.
Compare my image to the one in this link by A.J. Russell or possibly William Henry Jackson in 1869, courtesy of the Library of Congress:
www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a19082/
The mainline has been double tracked, the truss bridge is steel instead of wood, and the steam engine has gotten slightly bigger! But other than that little has changed in a century in a half along the Union Pacific Railroad mainline, route of the first transcontinental.
This is Taggarts Tunnel or Tunnel 8 at MP 963.2 on the modern Evanston Sub at the crossing of the Weber River.
Big Boy 4014 and 844 lead the special east toward Evanston on the first leg of their journey back east to Cheyenne, WY.
It just doesn't get more iconic than this and what a site to behold!
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Sunday May 12, 2019
London: 24 July 1971
The Safaris Overland bus (YRC 45) about to leave Clapham Common for Dover. This was to be a longer tour-type trip instead of a direct drive to India: the route was across Belgium, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia to Greece – with a diversion down to Athens and Delphi, before driving back up to northern Greece and the Turkish border. First stop in Turkey was Istanbul for a few days, then back to the ferry at Gallipoli to cross from Europe to Asia. Then drive along the Mediterranean coast before heading north to join the main road across Turkey to Iran. Across Iran, via Tehran, the Caspian Sea and on to the Afghan border. Three stops in Afghanistan: Herat, Kandahar and Kabul before the Khyber Pass and crossing into Pakistan; after a few days in Lahore it was cross into India and stop at Amritsar before heading north for Kashmir. The last leg was back down to India and pick up the Grand Trunk Road and drive to Delhi. An optional extra was a 2-day trip from Delhi down to Agra and the Taj Mahal.
When I first went overland to India in the late 1960s, there were about a total of two thousand miles to be driven on dirt roads; the first section was south of Belgrade, down to Skopje; a short distance in Greece, and a long stretch across central and north-eastern Turkey and six hundred miles across Iran. Each year the roads were improved; I last drove the route in early 1977 and by then less than two hundred miles of dirt road remained – and that was in eastern Turkey.
The first train I bothered photographing on the Overland Route after following it on US30 from Ames, IA was the IG2OA, the same damn Oakland stack train I shot in my California days. After a detailed briefing with Pinky the possibility was discussed of chasing this to California. By the time I arrived in North Platte 18 hours later he was only 100 miles ahead of me in Sidney, NE. About 23 hours after this shot when I arrived in Cheyenne I was ahead and he was in Emergency east of town. I laid over in Green River and he was wayyyy behind with an engine failure to boot! By the time I cleared the Salt Lake City area I had overtaken the IG2OA from the day PREVIOUS to this one.
Persepolis, Iran: 25 December 1971
It is the morning of Christmas Day 1971: the 37-seater AEC Reliance bus I was driving from London to India is seen here parked beneath the forty-odd feet high Grand Terrace at Persepolis. That's not an item of seasonal traditional decoration behind the windscreen — it's an inflated condom.
Eventually we had arrived in Tehran, running about two weeks late. Once we entered Iran the weather slowly began to improve, so that when a diesel injector pipe split on the engine I was able to replace it, even though the temperature had warmed up to about minus 15°C. At the time we were on the almost deserted main trunk road from the Turkish frontier to Tabriz; the absence of traffic was because the road was a continuous sheet of ice – and no-one else was daft enough to drive on it. While I fixed the engine the passengers were enjoying themselves sliding down the road – and then the bus slowly began to move. With the bus side panels opened up to access the underslung engine, I squatted in the road and wondered why the injection pump was moving away from my hand that held the spanner – the bus was very slowly sliding on the ice, with the parking brake on, and nobody in it . Someone heard me shouting, saw what was happening and jammed a couple of the large wooden chocks under the tyres and luckily the thing finally stopped moving.
We stayed in Tabriz that night and drove on to Tehran the following day and booked into the usual place – the Amir Kabir Hotel. This establishment was the halfway-house on the overland trail to India, and a favourite haunt for travellers; but this time, one night there was enough – it was far too cold in the unheated rooms, which were on open balconies. Most of us moved to the nearby Armstrong Hotel; it was more expensive but the rooms had heating. Another plus-point of the Armstrong was that it sold alcohol in the basement restaurant. The local beer came from the Shams brewery in Tehran; of course, all that went with the overthrow of the Shah at the end of the 1970s.
Under the Overland Ave. bridge crossing Ballona Creek; Culver City, CA. 2021
Mamiya 6 75mm f/3.5 lens, Ilford HP-5 Plus 120 film, HC-110 Dil.B developer, Epson Perfection V550 Photo Scanner
In early 1977 I drove this Bedford SB8 bus (UDL 137) on a trip to India – it had a Duple C41F body and a Leyland 350 engine with a 4-speed gearbox.
The body code C41F means that it was a single-deck, 41-seater with the passenger door at the front. The Bedford model type SB had the suffix '8' which was for those chassis fitted with Leyland 350 engines.
The bus was first registered in May 1960 and operated by Shotters Ltd. on the Isle of Wight, until they sold it in 1971; I've no idea where it spent the next six years before I drove it.
This bus was operated by Tour East, a sister company of Budget Bus. The photo was taken somewhere in Austria by its then owner, John H, who ran Tour East.