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C&O Lococomotive No. 490, built in 1926 and retrofitted with a streamlined skin in 1947. It's on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore.

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Thought I would give the Great Lakes steamers some love, so here is the SS Keewatin, a Canadian Great Lakes steamer that operated largely in Lake Superior. She was built in 1907 for Canadian Pacific and remained in service until the mid-1960s. She was also used as a set in various films/documentaries about the Titanic, Lusitania, and Yarmouth Castle.

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Verandah on the German ocean liner SMS Cap Trafalgar

German vintage postcard

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Japanese ocean liner MV Asama Maru on a vintage postcard

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Art deco style Mauretania Apartments, Los Angeles, California. Designed by architect, Milton J. Black and built in 1934

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The "Mercury" - a streamliner passenger train which operated in the Midwest between 1936 and 1959. It was designed by the legendary industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss.

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(the RMS Berengaria (she/her) was formerly the SS Imperator (he/him))

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Spectators turned out to see the luxury French ocean liner Normandie, June 4, 1935. The liner had completed her maiden voyage and record run across the Atlantic (4.14 days, the fastest ever) the day before.

Photo: Associated Press

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ship portraits by frank h. mason for cunard postcards ca. 1920s-30s

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nordd. lloyd's columbus art postcard ca. 1920s

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cunard liner campania postmarked jan 10 1911

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aquitania at new york art card from charles turner's ship portrait series, ca. 1923 @postcardtimemachine

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One of the most impressive and iconic sights of an old shipyard were the gantry scaffoldings. The Great Gantry in Harland and Wolff Shipyard is probably the most iconic, as it famously held the Olympic class sisters (Olympic, Titanic, Britannic). The huge gantries were found in many shipyards, included the Blohm & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg (pictured bottom). I mean, just look at how massive these are! They’re larger than the ocean liners themselves! These would also be the sight of ship christening (except in the case kf Cunard Lines), and their launches. A magnificent sight indeed.

Also I have to nitpick that the second photo captions the ship in the photo to be the Olympic even though im about 99% sure its the Titanic.

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Maiden Voyage

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The SS Cap Arcona and SS Wilhelm Gustloff. Probably the two worst maritime disasters in World War II, but no one ever talks about them. Here they are docked side by side.

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Fritz Eschen (1900 - 1964)

Night Express, between 1931–1935