Logging trucks, trains, and look at the size of those logs!

Above via http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/

Driving the model T cars onto the tree trunk is wild, but a team of horses? Did they think about how they were going to get those horses to back up the whole way off that tree trunk?

that train on top of the bridge is cool... but what the freak! How long did it take them to make that bridge? And they had to have it pretty level for that train, believe it.

from http://www.barnorama.com/big-trees/

Cool old police vehicles and motorcycles

Above, 1912 Detroit

from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=738

Italy's National Automobile Museum in Turin (or Torino I'm not sure, I can't read Italian)

the wood buck for an Alfa Romeo Guiletta Sprint

Fiat Turbina

the winner of the Paris to Peking race

If you are ever near Torino, it looks like a must see to me! http://www.museoauto.it/home/

Images from http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/

The biggest wagon I've ever seen! Might only have been a movie prop, because they blew it to smithereens

Three axles... I've never seen one with 3 axles. This was in the movie "Duck You Sucker" with James Coburn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/

The Harlem River Speedway in 1902 (not a motorcar racetrack) was a carriage route, I'd love to drive along it (proabably doesn't exist anymore)

Black and white from Shorpy, the color images are postcards from http://www.coffeedrome.com/bobspeed.html

the 5th Avenue Stage in 1900, just a year or two before the horses became obsolete

You wouldn't see these magnificent (if dangerous) horse carriages galloping up and down Fifth Avenue much longer at the time this photo was taken. 1900 was the year that the NY State Senate approved a bill allowing the Fifth Avenue Stage to run automobiles along the length of its newly-extended route.

By 1903, the horse carriages had been retired for "motor buses."

This was a relief to the residents of the apartment blocks near the "big stable" of the Fifth Avenue Stage located uptown. The stables took up the whole block between 88th and 89th Streets, were four stories tall, and housed over 250 horses. Its neighbors were continually filing complaints with the city because of the "noxious odors", as well as perpetual stamping and neighing of horses in their stalls, which made sleep impossible.

Commentary by Louise on http://www.shorpy.com/node/8588?size=_original

Automobiles of the 20's and before, from Shorpy.com

1923

1922 the last horse drawn fire truck in New York

1927 Dodge trucks belonging to the Treasury Department

1908 subway train

1920's

Model T runabout

Predessesor to the ladder truck, called a water tower, pre-1922 which was the last year for New York horse drawn fire engines from what I read

1925, and brilliant advertising photo of the "Capital Brand" with the Capital building just over the hood

1920

REO dealership floor, 1920

The Baltimore automobile above demonstrates a safety catcher for pedestrians... I wonder if it was due to unsafe drivers who couldn't safely operate the cars, or pedestrians who couldn't avoid being hit by the comparably quiet cars

Oldsmobile Sales Co. interior, 1919 or 1920

The Hackett Motor Car co, Jackson Michigan

1912 is the time of the photo. Terrific delivery wagon, precursor to the truck

1904 in France

http://www.shorpy.com/ for terrific old photos of everything, I just dig the automotive ones