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Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Locomotive Rigi Railway, Public domain image

Locomotive used on railroad. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 38, upper right.

Jupiter & Lake Worth R.R. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tunnel 8, Temasopa [sic] Canon - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tracey [sic], Minn., engine of the South Dakota division

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manunka Chunk, N.J., east end of tunnel

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old aqueduct at Queretaro, Mexico, mammoth plate negative

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steam locomotive number 4 of the Illinois Central Railroad Company

In album: American locomotives, 1890-1910, page 33, no. V271-82.

Pacific Express, Chicago and North Western Ry.

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

White Pass Railway train on the shores of Lake Bennett

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Train built ca. 1829, on Baltimore & Ohio R.R. From Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce. No. 33386.

The first engine and train in America

DeWitt Clinton train (1831) exhibited on railroad flat car to spectators. Copyright by R.Y. Young.

Flood on the KATY, no. 1 / Gannaway, SMcA, no. 1.

Photograph shows a Missouri-Kansas-Texas train under several feet of water. Passengers stand on top of the train.

[Railroad and country scene] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Fire patrol of our forestry service] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Man in vehicle of fire patrol forest service on railroad tracks. No. 43, no. 18263A. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

[Dinkey engine and steam shovel]

J196151 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by L. Hollard, no. 542. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

German troops en route to Russia

Photograph shows German soldiers seated on top of a railroad locomotive going to Russia, during World War I. (Source: Flicker Commons project, 2011)

World's Fair, railroad exhibit, modern locomotives. Canadian Northern ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large i... More

A black and white photo of a train, Iowa. Farm Security Administration...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Train pulling out of one of the classification yard...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clovis, New Mexico. Welder at work on the driver wheel of an engine in...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winslow, Arizona. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad diesel freig...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Overlooking what what were once bustling rail lines of the Baltimore &...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. To the right are the Willard Hotel, built in 1911 by the B&O, and the old B&O terminal. Rail traffic increased as the B&O expanded, re... More

The Central Pacific Railroad's "Gov. Stanford" locomotive No. 1 is one...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

A steam train operated by the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad, a herita...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The railroad was started in 1983 by a group of volunteers who wanted to preserve a scenic section of the former Fort Dodge, Des Moines... More

Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, Millwright Shop, Spruce & Market St...

Significance: Following destruction of the original building by fire in 1879, the Millwright Shop was rebuilt in the same year on the old plan. The shop is very large, measuring 189 feet by 135 feet, with two ... More

Locomotive Drainage canal of Nochistongo, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Heart of Dixie Railroad, Rolling Stock, 1800 Block Powell Avenue, Birm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The great race for the Western stakes 1870

Print shows Cornelius Vanderbilt and James Fisk in a race for control of New York's rails. Throughout 1868 and 1869, the two men had fought for control of the Erie Railroad. (See also "The Statue Unveiled," no.... More

Locomotive - Print, Library of Congress collection

1974 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: American Bank Note Co.

A mile a minute - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Engine, J.H. Devereux, Alexandria (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows the ornately decorated locomotive J.H. Devereux, of the United States Military Railroad with two crew members on board outside the roundhouse at the Alexandria station. Published in: Civil War... More

"Does not such a meeting make amends?" / FB.

Print shows an allegory of linking of Trans-Continental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah; Indians and buffalo fleeing in the foreground as two trains with large hands extending from the locomotives, labeled ... More

Steam shovel at work, showing how track is laid, Burt mine, Mesabi Ran...

Stereograph showing large steam shovel in operation; men working on railroad tracks.

The General, Union Station, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A tipple, Gaston mine. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Train] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dynamiters' train, Indianapolis

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Deluxe overland limited train

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Log train in woods near Flagstaff, Ariz.

Photograph shows men posed with railroad train loaded with bundles of logs. B. Hock, News Depot, Flagstaff, Ariz.

Stourbridge Lion - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Photograph shows replica of the Stourbridge Lion locomotive built in 1933 riding atop of railroad flat-car. No. 685. Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corporation; Association of American Railroads Transportation Buil... More

A black and white photo of a man standing on a train track, Railroad y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Motor locomotive of railroad equiped with snow plow. Durango, Colorado

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

San Bernardino, California. Yard crew working with a Atchison, Topeka,...

Clovis, New Mexico. Refacing the tires of a locomotive with a Ledgerwo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daniel Senise and his crew with their engine in an Indiana Harbor Belt...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. One of the Pennsylvania railroad's giant 6100 class...

Amarillo, Texas. Eastbound Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe freight train...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Eastbound Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe freight train near Cajon, Cal...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Train locomotive, Mid-Continent Museum, Wisconsin

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Old Rogers locomotive (obtained from the Republic of Panama) at the lo...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting scenes in Paterson's historic district.

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

The Durango-Silverton narrow-gauge railroad train pulls into Silverton...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The train, which once carried ore down from the mountains, first to Silverton, then down to Durango, 47 miles away and 2,800 feet lowe... More

Steam locomotive and coal tender in on a roundhouse turntable in the t...

The express train - Print, Library of Congress collection

Train passing under bridge. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / complied by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1944.

Union Pacific engine coming out of roundhouse to haul President Roosev...

Stereograph showing locomotive engine #104 on track in front of roundhouse. H62632 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co.

Virginia. Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D... More

No. 1376 Illinois Central R.R. Used on Chicago World's Fair trains

Photograph shows steam locomotive 1376 of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. In album: American locomotives, 1890-1910, page 31, no. V271-81.

Jacob's ladder, Mt. Washington Ry., White Mts., New Hampshire

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Roundhouse, State Route 994, W...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The progress of the century - the lightning steam press, the electric ...

Man using telegraph in foreground; in background are people using steam press, steamboat, and locomotive. 4614 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, ... More

Night scene on the New York Central Railroad., American Express compan...

P7783 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Pratt, J.W. & Co.

Lincoln funeral car on the old tracks of the Illinois Central Railroad...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The "best friend," the first locomotive built in the United States for...

Illustration showing people on first excursion trip of the South Carolina Railroad, 15th January 1831; it was built at the West Point Foundery Shops in New York City. Illus. in: The history of the first locomot... More

General Harrison and party, en route to Washington, D.C.

President Harrison standing on back of railroad car. N7641 U.S. Copyright Office.

The original "John Bull" - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Locomotive of Camden & Amboy Railroad Company. 19065Y U.S. Copyright Office. Original file in PR 12 SSF - Railroads Companies Camden & Amboy 1830.

The great railroad strike, 1894

Photograph shows special patrolling train Rock Island Railroad, with Company C, 15th U. S. infantry at Blue Island, Illinois. Photo by The Foss Etching & Photo Co.

[Railroad engineer oiling up before the start]

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Empire State Express, Utica, N.Y.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Railroad, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Locomotive DeWitt Clinton railway train, Public domain image

A Trans-Siberian train at Mukden, Manchuria-on the longest railroad in...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Engine number 894, Rock Island Railroad

Title devised. Date on locomotive. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

I.C.C.(?) work train & stairs leading out of Culebra-cut

J139042 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a steam engine, railroad, locomotive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three car train, Shore Line Electric R'y

Photograph shows three railway cars sitting on the tracks; conductor leaning out window of lead car; porters stand on landings of lead and last cars.

[Train] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Bulgarian railroad locomotive at Dedeagatch, a town on the sea coast...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Bulgaria. On caption card: (1055) Used in: Ex. Tec... More

R.R. [i.e., railroad] train, June 30, 1920

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Erie Railroad depot in Decatur, Indiana

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Locomotive and a watertower at the Erie Railroad yards, Jersey City, ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

A black and white photo of a train coming down the tracks, West Virgin...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Northern Pacific freight train going over Bozeman Pass. Gallatin Count...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of an old train. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. An Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad engine in one ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Yardmaster watching a train pulling out of one of t...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Transportation. Engines. "MacArthur" engine in service on the Baltimor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A westbound Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train passing by a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Both coming and going are steep for the Pikes Peak Cog Railway, which ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

Virginia & Truckee Railroad Shops, Between Plaza, Ann, Stewart & Sophi...

Significance: This large building is the most impressive visible remainder of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, one of the most famous of America's Short-Line Railroads. Unprocessed Field note material exists... More

[Railroad locomotive and coal car, Chicago and Alton Railroad]

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot. (De...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The progress of the century - the lightning steam press, the electric ...

American railroad scene: lightning express trains leaving the junction

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0199 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ..... More

[Henry M. Stanley and party standing on back of train at Monterey, Cal...

W13493 U.S. Copyright Office. By Taber(?), San Francisco, California. Public domain photograph of train car, engine, locomotive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First locomotive of U.S. Railroad, Alaska

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Locomotive engine. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows locomotive engine on display. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852, v. 2, frontis.

The fastest time on record - Public domain portrait drawing

Photograph shows a train running under full steam. 60344Z U.S. Copyright Office. Photo'd by A.P. Yates, Syracuse, N.Y., May 10, 1893, when Engine 999 drawing the Empire State Express train, made the record of 1... More