I love Transportation, in all its forms. It started with my summer job when I was in college, working in the Traffic Department (in charge of shipping and receiving) at the Ford Motor Company Seattle Parts Depot in south Seattle. I worked there three years in a row, and I loved learning about the modes of transportation, and by the end of the first summer I learned the names of all the Ford dealers in Washington. I had some pretty good stories, too. I pay attention to interesting or funny vehicles wherever I go.

Uh, I think this one hasn’t moved in a while! Just what is it under there? Actually, that’s hubby’s car after a night of snowfall.

This one has two different kinds of motion, both floating on Puget Sound. The Washington State Ferry system goes among the many islands in Puget Sound, and from the mainland to the islands, and the Kitsap Peninsula. There is even a Washington State Ferry that goes to Victoria and Vancouver, BC in Canada. The ferry system is part of a Marine Highway, and thousands of people rely on it to get to work every day. The little boat is a working fishing boat, probably owned by one of the local Indian tribes.

This one is one of the BC ferries which ply their way around the West Coast of Canada.

The Horse is one of the earliest modes of fast travel. Societies who domesticated horses for riding and pulling wagons almost always conquered those who didn’t have them. Native American tribes didn’t have horses until the Spanish Conquistadors brought them; they learned VERY quickly how to ride, and shoot from horseback. The tribes that had them quickly took over those that didn’t. Every year at the Washington State Fair they have a mounted parade through the fairgrounds.

Nearly everything you eat or wear or use daily is brought to you by truck. I just laughed out loud when I saw this one. The truck isn’t unusual, but the name of the truck line is. I hope I’m not the only one who gets the joke. This sighting was my first for this trucker, but now I see them around here (this was in Wyoming). See the bottom of this post for the answer.

The vehicle above wouldn’t attract any attention today, but it did when I took this photo, in 1996. The location is Vienna, Austria, and digital TV was in its infancy. The buildings around it date from the 19th Century, when TV wasn’t even a gleam in an inventor’s eye yet.

Big and little. I saw the colorful Alaska/Hawaiian Airlines plane on the tarmac in Seattle from our plane as it was leaving. The little seaplane, run by Harbour Air, landing on the Inner Harbour in Victoria, BC. Little planes come and go all day; that’s the only mode of transportation that we have not yet taken to get to Victoria (the others are Washington State Ferry, BC Ferry, Black Ball Ferry from Port Angeles, and Victoria Clipper from Seattle).

I had to do video on this one! It’s a long coal train in Wyoming in 2022, from the moving car.

I saw this funny-looking car in a store parking lot. Someone went to a lot of trouble to build it!

Here’s the Link to John’s Original Post for this week.

[the key to the funny truck line name is SuperEGO lines; the superego is a term from Freudian psychology, and denotes the Conscience. Maybe the truck line emphasizes its conscientious service]

And one more thing. A while ago, I looked up the term “vehicle” to see its derivation. It comes from the Latin word for “to carry”, which applies to items other than transportation. Like in the pharmacy, simple syrup and cherry syrup are called “vehicles” because they “carry” medicine down the throats of patients who may not like the taste of the medicine.