ex-Southern-Railway (USA) 2-8-2

Number 4501, built by Baldwin in 1911, on a fan trip. It was retired in 1964 and the owner now is the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. Info

Pic by Kent Kobersteen, available commercially as a print.

MoPac General Motors Diesels poster, early 1950s

Part of a series with the different railroads, see earlier posts.

1977 Alfa Romeo Formula 1 Grand Prix poster

Holland America Line poster, circa 1930

CIDNA 'Flèche d'Orient' poster 1930

The Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne was a French-Romanian airline that began operating in 1920. Its "Orient Arrow" service connected Paris with Istanbul, with stops in Eastern Europe along the way, offering same-day service for passengers, freight and post. CIDNA ceased to exist when it merged in 1933 with other French airlines to form Air France.

Alco-built 'Pacific' from 1910

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Cunard line poster featuring the 'Campania' or 'Lucania'

These were launched in 1892 and 1893, respectively and were the pride of the Cunard fleet until 1907 when they were superseded by the Lusitania and the Mauritania.

Info

Baldwin-built 0-6-0 switcher of the UP

Built April 1918, retired in 1957, now preserved as at static exhibit at the Travel Town museum in Los Angeles.

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vessels in Yalta, Crimea, circa 1910

Part of Russia at the time, for about 60 years part of Ukraine and recently part of Russia again.

This place was the venue for the Yalta Conference of February 1945 in which President FDR and Winston Churchill agreed to carve up Germany and Austria into occupation zones and to let Stalin redraw the maps of Eastern Europe after WW2.

Muslim terrorist bombs kill at least 276 in Mogadishu, Somalia

It's a country that's long been characterized by violence, terrorism and piracy, and usually the attacks get little media coverage for that reason, but the size of this one was enough to be an exception.  The believed perpetrators of this impressive attack are Al-Shabab, an affiliate of Al Qaeda.

LA Times story