For today, a few random images captured by travelers of the past as they crisscrossed North America. As is often the case with these online-sourced images, no dates or locations were given. Of course, that’s part of the fun; dates can be inferred through cars and fashion. Locations; some are more than obvious, while some will be slowly guessed and revealed in the comments section.
Wonder why you would hang a “desert water bag” on the front of the hood?
Some water seeps through the bag. With the low humidity and wind current, the water inside is cooled, potentially down to the ambient dew point if I correctly recall my education. A brief ‘google’ says they could make very cold water on hot days.
You are correct
https://www.marquettehistory.org/blog/canvas-water-bags
Thanks, never knew that!
I guess they didn’t want to take any chance of the car overheating if they mounted it over the grille.
Love that shot of the Canadian Pacific train. Looks like a couple of EMD F units sandwiching a couple of GP units.
Yeah, that is a bit of an odd combo. I’m pretty sure this was taken in BC’s Rogers pass, likely shortly after it opened.
Probably an F7, late F3s are hard to tell from F7s. 16 cyl 2 stroke diesels, with each cyl displacing something like 575 cu in! Great engines but my favorite diesel of that era was the rare Baldwin “Sharknose”. Only 2 are left in the world, supposedly hidden away somewhere in the upper Midwest.
I think that the 8th photo…the one with the 1960 Ford on the gravel road…may be the Mt. Washington Auto Road in New Hampshire. That road wasn’t entirely paved until 2022!
Although I can’t agree 100%, The Mount Washington Auto Road was my first thought too.
I vote picture 5 Joshua Tree Nat. Monument.
picture 9 Death Valley
Picture 10 station wagon in redwood tree Sequoia Nat. park
Picture #7 was taken on Needles Highway in South Dakota. The 1954 Ford has a Michigan license plate from 1960 (distinctive because of the green plate revalidated for 1960 with a yellow tab).
Thinking the convert in “pic#1” isn’t quite at the edge as it appears. Still much too close for me.
“Pic #3”, the cars parked at the big rock; someone know what/where it is?
A fair number of 2 door coupes, especially in the earlier timeframe (50’s).
Today, SUV’s would be in every photo.
Picture 8 looks just like a lot of places in my native Scotland – bleak, cold and inhospitable. Only thing missing is the sullen bedraggled sheep.
road trip!!
Pic #3 Garden of the Gods, Colorado springs, CO.
Moved to Albuquerque as a kid in 1957. Saw water bags attached to hoods all the time.