locomotive

Northwestern Virginia (B&O) Railroad, Grafton Machine Shop & Foundry, ...

Significance: Built by the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, a subsidiary of the B&O, this complex was the major repair facility on the western portion of the line. Grafton was one of the earliest railroad towns... More

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & ...

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

Independent Coal & Coke Company, Kenilworth, Carbon County, UT

Significance: The opening of the Kenilworth Mine in 1907 marked the beginning of the second phase of development in Utah's coal industry. The first phase was marked by a complete monopoly of the railroads over... More

[Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives] - 19th century Virginia.

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40,...

Public domain photograph of excavation, bulldozer, land management, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, 21st & Hamilton St...

Print shows an advertisement for the Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, with side views of a railroad passenger car and a city street-railroad passenger car that is passing P.S. Duval's lithogr... More

Central Pacific Railroad Company - Freight Engine.

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1262. LOT subdivision subject: Central Pacific Railroad Equipment and Tracks on Donner Pass Route.... More

[Close up view of front of locomotive, showing light, smoke stack and ...

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Locomotive [at station] - Public domain engraving

Steel engraving copyrighted by the American Bank Note Co. No. 684. Line neg.? This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads Locomotive; Railroads Stations; Shelf.

Arrival of the first locomotive in Arizona

Stereograph showing men posing on and near a locomotive, probably in Yuma, Arizona. Written in pen on back of mount: Fort Yuma, Cal. on bluff in background. "Descriptive views of the American Continent" printed... More

N.Y.C.R.R. [New York Central Railroad] at Little Falls, Mohawk Valley,...

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

[Engines 4704 and 4051 of the L.S. and M.S. railroad]

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

[Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico]

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

Near Lewiston, Minn., the Pulpit

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

A trestle on California Western Railroad and Navigation Co.

Photograph shows train, with smoke blowing, moving across the tracks; passengers standing outside on last railroad car. No. 409. Additional title on item: California. Trestle on the California Western Railroad ... More

Railroad trains in Mexico - Marquez Summit

Photoprint by W.H. Jackson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Burlington engine number 120, the first train into Broken Bow, Nebrask...

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

Burlington engine number 7, said to be the first passenger train into ...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Brighton Beach Hotel, Brooklyn, N.Y., being moved away from beach...

Hotel moved using flatcars on 20 railroad tracks, pulled by locomotives. Title derived from P&P catalog card for corresponding copy negative. Source unknown..

Mex. - 2 views by Detroit Photo Co., 1894-5: "El Cafetal de Temasopa"

Railroad train on incline; mountain valley in background. Mexico. Gold-toned albumen print by W.H. Jackson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Train from Aleppo arriving at Homs

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

Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Ry. /

"Taken at Fingal, Cal., where the world-renowned "Sunset Limited" trains pass each other. One runs on a side track, and the other dashes by at a high rate of speed. Switch is then turned, and the train passes o... More

[The Hemlock Limited, bound for the woods, Harbor Springs, Mich.]

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

Detroit Photographic Co.'s Special

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

Passenger train in mountains - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Title devised by cataloger. "780" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Locomotive C & A coal car, Public domain image

Jacket title: C. & A. [Chicago and Alton Railroad] coal car, Mazonia, Ill. Includes photographer's shadow. "85" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042366. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Oiling up before the start - 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

Boulder, Colo. Disaster of Aug. 10, 1907

Train excursion stopping to allow passengers to view the ruins of fire which started in freight depot sheds. Stereo copyrighted by Ed Tangen. No. 250. No copyright renewal. cf. America's Yesterdays, p. 85. This... More

U.S. Mail, railroad car - Color separation negative, public domain

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

Women carrying timbers [on their heads from railroad car] for rebuildi...

After 1908 earthquake. Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 16828. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Earthquakes... More

Boy with cigarettes, works in American Locomotive Works as messenger. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Locomotive Company, Foundry, 320 South Roberts Street, Dunkir...

Significance: Using steel frame construction and sheathed in brick and glass, the American Locomotive Company's Foundry building is a typical example of 20th century industrial architecture. Survey number: HAE... More

Railroad trains transporting Insurrectos during the Mexican Revolution...

Photoprint by W. Roberts. Postcard. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Hump pusher, L.S. & M.S. R. R., Elkhart, Ind.

Postcard showing train engine on the railroad tracks of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway with row of men in front. J172354 U.S. Copyright Office. On photo: "Copr. Inbody." On back: Made by J. Inbod... More

Germans helping refugees returning to Antwerp

Photograph shows German soldiers on train tracks carrying bundle for Belgian refugees in Antwerp. Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

[Railroad trains, Utah] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

B.&G. passenger leaving Bingham Canyon. Photoprint copyrighted by L. Hollard, Salt Lake City, Utah. No. 636. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card traci... More

Railroads. Men working on locomotive II

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

Canadian scenes. Auto on railroad tracks

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Largest electric locomotive in world, 6/25

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

Train - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a train, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information ab... More

[Man lying in front of train on tracks]

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

The presidential train at Girdwood, Alaska

Rear view of President Harding's train. J281028 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 21093.

So. Railroad Co. Observation Car Cresent Limited, Birmingham Skip

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Davenport Locomotive Machine Company, Davenport, Iowa. Attaching side ...

Public domain photograph - American industrial history, 1930s-1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Davenport Locomotive Machine Company, Davenport, Iowa. Forging drive r...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Palestine disturbances 1936. L/C Davidson showing where his comrade wa...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salvaged rolling stock from R.R. i.e., railroad sabotage, 1938

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated ...

Railroad locomotive in grain elevator district. Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

Yard brakeman oiling locomotive, Elkins, West Virginia

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

Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackou...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 yard, West Virginia. Farm Security ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...

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

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Railroad switches, E...

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

Locomotives in roundhouse. Durango. Colorado

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

Railroad engineer who brings ore cars up from open pit mine to concent...

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

These four photographs were taken at the railroad station when a noon ...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Washing a locomotive at the coaling station at an I...

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. Workers bending a pipe for the repair of a locomoti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Reconditioning the firebox of a locomotive at the C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. In one of the make-up yards at a yard of the Chicag...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Conductor John L. Walter comparing time with his en...

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Chicago, Illinois. Working on the pipes that go into the boiler of a l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Surrounded by the blades of huge man...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad locomotive re...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. The engin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Working on a locomotive at the Chicago and Northwes...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

On arriving at the yard, the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad freight...

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

Needles, California. Filling the sand dome of a locomotive near the ro...

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

Winslow, Arizona. Indian laborers at work in the Atchison, Topeka and ...

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

Topeka, Kansas. Workmen in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad ...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Passengers coming in on one of the Burlington Zephy...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beaumont, Texas. Lady in a railroad signal tower

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

Higgins shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana. Ramp boats on railroad cars

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

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Engineer and conductor compare time before pulling ...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad conductor Ge...

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

San Bernardino, California. Women operating the turntable at the Atch...

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

Ash Fork, Arizona. A diesel freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and ...

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

Topeka, Kansas. General view of part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman moving a locomotive wheel par...

Public domain photograph of people in the park, outdoors, picnic, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Retiring a locomotive driver wheel i...

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

Blue Island, Illinois. Daniel Senise at his job at an Indiana Harbor B...

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

Topeka, Kansas. Workmen checking out for lunch at the Atchison, Topeka...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Engines in the Atchison, Topeka and ...

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

Kiowa, Kansas. Freight train pulling out on the Atchison, Topeka and S...

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

Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland. Southboun...

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

Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroad...

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

A meeting of the engines at the Golden Spike National Historic Site, U...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Location where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Ra... More

Stained-glass window at Madison Four Diner, at the corner of Madison &...

Forms part of a group of images of the Madison Diner window taken on September 12, 1994.

Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama

Colonel James Withers Sloss, a north Alabama merchant and railroad man built Sloss Furnace. Harry Hargreaves, a European-born engineer, was in charge of construction. Sixty feet high and eighteen feet in diamet... More

Long-decommissioned diesel locomotive parked in Philippi, West Virgini...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam train pulls into the tiny Osi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The C&TS is a three-foot narrow gauge heritage railroad running between Chama, New Mexico and Antonito. It runs over 10,015-foot Cumbr... More

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

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

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

Chicago & Northwestern Ry. Passenger Train, mammoth plate negative

"Detroit Publishing Co." Copyright deposit no. 4327. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 10206. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Southern Pacific Railroad Natron Cutoff, Tunnel No. 18, Milepost 410, ...

Significance: The Southern Pacific Railroad Cascade Route, built as the Natron Cutoff between Black Butte, California and Natron, Oregon was one of a series of major rebuildings and realignments of the original... More

Ogden Arsenal, Locomotive Repair Shop, 6233 Aspen Avenue, Layton, Davi...

Significance: Rail transportation was a critical element of early regional military activity. This building provides particularly vivid images of the processes involved in the maintenance, repair, modification... More