Lost in time and history

The S.S. Brinkerhoff,  (S.S. stands for Steam Ship), was a double ended, walking beam steam engined ferry. The ship was built in Newburgh New York in 1899 and ran between Poughkeepsie and Highland on the Hudson River.  She later became an excursion boat out of Bridgeport CT. and operated rides out and down through Hellgate to the battery and up the Hudson. She last sailed under steam to Hildbrant shipyard on Roundout Creek New York. Later she was donated to and towed to the Mystic Seaport to become an exhibit. The Mystic seaport was fast becoming a Whaling era museum and the Brinkerhoff just didn't fit in. It was towed to the Pawcatuck River where it sat neglected. Later the Brinkerhoff caught fire and burned to the water line. A piece of history lost.

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New haven railroad 2-8-2 3016 was a 1916 production steam engine classed as a J-1. She was built at Alco Schenectady new York a Mikado type. After years of service on the New York, new Haven and Hartford Railroad she was stored at that railroads Readville Massachusetts Shops. About ready to be scraped she received a reprieve, she was cleaned up and sent to Connecticut to star as Portland and Eastern Railroad #97 in the Doris Day/ Jack Lemmon film "It happened to Jane". The Movie was filmed in Plainfield Conn, and along the Connecticut River line with the final scene using a wooden mock-up in Deep River.
With the shooting of the film over the railroad offered the engine to whomever would want it for preservation. 

Deep River

Plainfield CT.

there were no takers and the engine was scraped. 
Less than 20 years later the Valley Railroad and Museum was formed one town south in Essex CT. Too late for the last New Haven Steam engine.

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The Horst Wessel was built in 1936 at the Hamburg Shipyard, With the Nazis rising in power the ship was named after Horst Wessel a Storm trooper hero. the ship was taken at the end of the war and became property of the United States.

The figurehead was removed and for a while kept on display at the Mystic Seaport. 

When it arrived it clutched the Swastika in it's talons but the emblem was stolen. It was replaced with a circle emblem. The Figurehead was later moved closer to its ship in New London where it is kept on display.

The Ship itself is still in use and in the same service it performed for the Nazis, cadet training.

The ship has a new paint scheme and a new name and can be seen frequently sitting at it's home port on the Thames River in New London.

United States Coast guard Training barque Eagle.

Whether taken because someone wanted it or because they didn't like the emblem being displayed, the Eagles Swastika was never recovered.