VW Love Bus cup

We noticed this for sale recently, country of manufacture not known.

'I don't spend all my time tapping on a little smartphone screen, I read books'

1978 Bedford NFM2BHZ bus

Gross vehicle weight 9.5 tonnes; tare 5.86 tonnes.

Alco RS-3 from 1952 in SP's "Black Widow" livery

A classic body shape in a classic livery -- what gets better than that?  The Cotton Belt (St Louis South Western) was an SP subsidiary, see earlier posts.

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investigators into the EgyptAir crash in May think the reason lies in the aircraft's technical systems, rather than sabotage

A black box recorder from the doomed Egyptair flight that crashed over the Mediterranean killing all 66 on board has revealed smoke was detected in one of the toilets.

The Airbus A320 plunged into the eastern Mediterranean Sea en route from Paris to Cairo in May, with the cause of the crash unknown.

Search teams managed to salvage both of the so-called black box flight recorders and investigators have been analysing the information from the data recorder.

No explanation for the disaster has been ruled out, but current and former aviation officials increasingly believe the reason lies in the aircraft's technical systems, rather than sabotage.

The Paris prosecutor's office opened a manslaughter investigation on Monday but said it was not looking into terrorism as a possible cause of the crash at this stage.

Daily Mail (UK) article:

anti-jihad messages get put on 100 London taxis

As a counter to the Islamist messages that were put on London's big red buses following the election of Sadiq Khan as Mayor, anti-jihad activist Pamela Geller has announced a new ad campaign that kicked off in London on Monday.

The ads will appear on 100 London taxis and will feature quotes from Muhammad.

Geller, who co-founded the American Freedom Defense Initiative in an effort to battle radical Islam in the United States, announced the ad campaign last week on the group’s website.

“Despite the overwhelming push-back and danger, we continue to fight on fiercely,” she wrote. “The war is in the homeland, and it’s only just begun.”

And the fight is not cheap, Geller explained. “London buses refused our ads, despite running Islamic prayers on their bus-sides. So we are putting our ads on 100 London taxis... they go up this week, but it’s bloody expensive,” Geller wrote.

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0-6-0 tank engine outside Winslöf station, Sweden

The place is now spelled Vinslöv.

which Muslim terrorist group committed the attack on Istanbul airport?

The Turkish government was swift to put the blame on ISIS, but ISIS has not been swift to claim responsibility, and given that Turkey's President Erdogan is a major ISIS benefactor, it wouldn't make a lot of sense.

Another Muslim terrorist group -- and the "religion of peace" has lots of them -- is more likely.

MSNBC article and video.

flight day, Switzerland, 1931

What nowadays would be called an airshow. On the Hallwiler Lake. "Passenger flights, acrobatics, parachute jumps into the water, sail flights." Although the name of a place, Meisterschwanden literally translates as "master disappearances"; fitting for things that dive into the lake?

Canadian Pacific passenger train passes through the Grand Canyon of the Fraser River promotional art

In British Columbia in steam days although the precise date isn't stated.