Over 23,000 tons of steel and several years of work have gone into the project, which is expected to include historically accurate details such as the dining room, door handles, and a functioning steam engine to simulate the experience of being aboard the original ship. The project is estimated to cost around one billion yuan ($US 150 million), and the replica is intended to attract tourists from around the world as a five-star hotel and museum experience. (Marine Buff FB)
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World transport history
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
full size theme park replica of the 'Titanic'
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
Switzerland's first water-toboggan on Lac LĂ©man, 1927
terminus of the St Charles streetcar line in New Orleans
With a little model. Although most of the line is along St Charles Avenue, some is in S. Carrollton. Traveling along it is a cheap way of seeing the grand old garden surrounded houses. (Geoff Churchman pic)
electric railcar on the Biasca-Acquarossa railway, Ticino, Switzerland, 1973
This was the year the meter-gauge 13.8 km line was closed and replaced with a bus service. It had been in service since 1911.
traffic in Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, 1935
At the corner with Leipziger Stasse, looking north. The area was rebuilt in plain modernist style after extensive bomb damage in WW2.
It looks like an Opel Blitz pickup in the center.
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Canadian Pacific steam crossing CGI
A pair of 4-8-4's built in 1928 with road numbers 3100 and 3101.
Detailed info on steamlocomotive.com with photos is here
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