Illinois Central Railroad, Passenger Depot No. 2, North of First Stree...
Survey number: HAER IL-23-D Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Railroad tracks and utility poles along a waterway and cliff]
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harp...
Significance: The train station at Harpers Ferry provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between railroad engineering and railroad economics. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin, the s... More
Bronxville Railroad Station, Parkway Road at Pondfield Road, Bronxvill...
Significance: The Bronxville Stationof the former New York Central and Hudson River Railroad's Harlem Branch is significant as one of the most distinguished surviving railroad stations in Westchester County. It... More
New steel bridge at Glasgow, Mo.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Long Bridge, Keedysville, Washington County...
The B&O Railroad was authorized to abandon the bridge and the portion of the Hagerstown Branch on which the bridge was located in 1978. Significance: This bridge is one of the longest on the Baltimore and Ohio ... More
Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad, South Hills Junction, Pittsburgh...
Significance: This former 40-inch, narrow-guage railroad was purchased in 1871 by the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad Company. In 1909, Pittsburgh Railways Company, lessee, began electrifying and convertin... More
Snowden Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Nohly, Richland County, MT
Survey number: HAER MT-27 Building/structure dates: 1913 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Shaw's Cove Bridge, Spanning ...
Significance: The Shaw Cove's Bridge is a forged steel rim-bearing swing bridge. It is a single-span, pin-connected Pratt through truss with thin diagonal eye-bars serving as tension members. It is significan... More
[Railroad tracks through desert dunes]
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Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, Bridge No. 1, Spanning ...
Significance: Grays Ferry is the site of one of Philadelphia's oldest Schuylkill River bridges. The present swing span is typical of movable bridge construction at the turn of the 20th century. Survey number: ... More
Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Wyoming Coun...
Significance: When the Lackawanna Railroad's 39.6-mile Clarks Summit-Halstead Cutoff in northeastern Pennsylvania was dedicated on Saturday, November 6, 1915, the 2,375-foot-long, 240-foot-high Tunkhannock Viad... More
How Sherman's boys fixed the railroad
Stereograph showing Union soldier inspecting the damaged railroad tracks torn up by Sherman's troops. In the foreground, wooden ties are pried out, piled up, and burned. While the wood is burning, the iron ra... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Fairmont Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River...
Significance: The first all-metal bridge on the Fink plan, its detailing influenced the development of pin-connection in American bridges. Longest iron bridge in the United States in 1852. Survey number: HAER... More
Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Main Bridge, Spanning Mononga...
Significance: Major connection between the north and south sides of the plant which was separated by the Monongahela River. Practically all of the intra-mill transfer of materials crossed this bridge during th... More
[Railroad construction worker straightening track; pile of twisted rai...
No. 67 (handwritten) and 2567 (stamped) on mount. Photo in album compiled by U.S. Military Railway Dept. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewh... More
[Laborers loading sacks onto railway at factory warehouse]
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Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
G.R. & I. Station at Bay View, Mich.
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Erie Railway, Goshen Station, Grand & Erie Streets, Goshen, Orange Cou...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1386 Survey number: HAER NY-55 Building/structure dates: 1867 Initial Construction
Northfield Parker Truss Bridge, Over tracks of Central Vermont Railroa...
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Southern Pacific Railroad Natron Cutoff, Tunnel No. 17, Milepost 408, ...
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
Portrait photo of [Man standing beside railroad tracks]
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Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Horseshoe Curve, Altoona, Penna., Panoramic Photograph
J15805 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; A. P. McDowell; November 13, 1934. On front: "Photo by A. P. McDowell, 1509 11th Ave., Altoona, Pa., 10-12-'34."
Connecting Railway, Reading Railroad Overpass, Amtrak Northeast Corrid...
Significance: This overpass, one of the early grad-separation structures on Philadelphia's Connecting Railway retains its original brick arches, which are rarely found on U.S. railroads. The bridge is located i... More
Camas Prairie Railroad, Second Subdivision, From Spalding in Nez Perce...
Significance: It retains 6 of its original 7 tunnels and 44 of its more than 50 original bridges and trestles. These structures enabled the tracks to rise from a starting elevation of approximately 800' by the ... More
Camas Prairie Railroad, Second Subdivision, From Spalding in Nez Perce...
Significance: It retains 6 of its original 7 tunnels and 44 of its more than 50 original bridges and trestles. These structures enabled the tracks to rise from a starting elevation of approximately 800' by the ... More
Salem Passenger Station & Freight Depot, 500 Thirteenth Street Southea...
Significance: It is significant as an execution of a standard Southern Pacific Railroad depot design in the early 1900s. The station is typical of depots of this era, but is architecturally unique within the Or... More
Reading-Halls Station Bridge, U.S. Route 220, spanning railroad near H...
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Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Heald Street Bridge, Spanning Conrail Railroad on South Heald Street (...
Significance: The Heald Street Bridge is a multiple span, embellished example of a concrete encased steel girder bridge. This commonly built type exemplifies the continuing expansion and improvement of the roa... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, West Philadelphia Elevated, Parallel to Schuylk...
See also HAER PA-71 for related documentation. Includes photographs. Significance: The West Philadelphia Elevated, part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's program to separate passenger and freight traffic, includes... More
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Thurmond Yards, East side New River, mouth...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between New York/Connecticut...
Survey number: HAER CT-11 Public domain photograph of the train tunnel, railroad, train track, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Below Hunlocks [i.e. Hunlock], Pennsylvania
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Pittsburgh Division at Millville, mammoth plate negative
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Indian workers building railway
Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Goose Lake - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
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Station at Willow Springs, Ill.
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Track straightening near Coal City
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Laying first rails of new U.S. railroad at Ship Creek
Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress).
[Great Gorge route, Niagara Gorge Railroad, Niagara Falls]
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Santa Rosa flour mill, after earthquake, April 18th 1906, Santa Rosa, ...
Photograph shows destruction of buildings; five men, three wearing badges, stand in front of rubble on train tracks; four men, in background, stand in piles of debris and flour sacks.
Suburban station, Petoskey, Mich.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Joseph Pennell - In the works, Homestead
Prints shows billowing smoke from steam engine train and steel mill smokestacks at Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania. Wuerth, 512. Edition of 50? Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. (Source: Beall) ... More
Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. View down railroad tracks III
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[People at train tracks] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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Engineer and brakeman in railroad yards, Elkins, West Virginia
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Flagman standing at a distance behind a Santa Fe R.R. west bound freig...
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Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at ...
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Unloading a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railroad iron ore docks...
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Amarillo, Texas. Sante Fe Railroad yards
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Chicago, Illinois. A Chicago and Northwestern Railroad streamliner on ...
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Alva, Oklahoma. Passing a grain elevator along the Atchison, Topeka an...
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Quirk (vicinity), New Mexico. Going through the town along the Atchiso...
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Fort Madison, Iowa. Leaving the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroa...
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Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...
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Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...
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Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...
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Seligman, Arizona. Leaving the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad...
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Miami, Texas. Train stopping for water along the Atchison, Topeka, and...
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The icing station of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. The brick build...
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Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Loading railroad cars ...
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Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...
Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, North Bergen Tunnel, Through ...
Significance: The North Bergen Tunnel is significant for its role in the development and expansion of the D.L&W. Railroad system. The tunnel was one of the first major construction projects undertaken after the... More
Benjamin a Gifford - Chicago Portland Special, O.R. & N. Co.
H82108 U.S. Copyright Office May be Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. No. 260. Copyright deposit; Benjamin A. Gifford; August 18, 1906.
Pennsylvania Railroad, Manayunk Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill Expressway...
Significance: The bridge's nine open-spandrel reinforced concrete arches follow an unusual reverse curvature, which earns it the nickname "S-bridge." Towering over the town of Manayunk and the Schuylkill Expres... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Kingwood Tunnel, Tunnelton, Preston County,...
Significance: The Kingwood tunnel was the major tunnel on the B&O mainline between Baltimore and Wheeling. Its construction involved the invention of new tunneling techniques and the use of prefabricated iron ... More
Easton & Northern Railroad, Lehigh River Bridge, Spanning Lehigh River...
Significance: This structures is significant for its highly complex geometry, with skew trusses carrying trucks on a reverse curve. It possesses a remarkable degree of integrity for a 19th century steel truss b... More
Escanaba, Mich., ore docks - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Overhead Highway Brid...
Significance: This triple-span rigid frame concrete deck girder bridge is significant for being the oldest known structure of its type in Minnesota. Survey number: HAER MN-77
Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad, South Hills Junction, Pittsburgh...
Significance: This former 40-inch, narrow-guage railroad was purchased in 1871 by the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad Company. In 1909, Pittsburgh Railways Company, lessee, began electrifying and convertin... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Keyser Machine Shop, State Route 46 Northwe...
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Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Wyoming Coun...
Significance: When the Lackawanna Railroad's 39.6-mile Clarks Summit-Halstead Cutoff in northeastern Pennsylvania was dedicated on Saturday, November 6, 1915, the 2,375-foot-long, 240-foot-high Tunkhannock Viad... More
Triple Railroad Crossing, East Byrd Street at Sixteenth Street, Richmo...
Survey number: HAER VA-40 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Tunnel No. 26, Milepost 133...
Significance: The Central Pacific First Transcontinental Railroad is a segment of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, built from Sacramento, California to Promontory Summit, Utah between 18... More
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Union Station Train Shed, Water Stree...
Significance: The Union Station Trainshed in Montgomery, Alabama is a rare survival of a once common building type. It was the outgrowth of a desire by railroad companies to improve passenger comfort, which th... More
Northwestern Elevated Railroad, Interlocking Tower, Wilson Avenue, Chi...
Significance: A surviving example of an elevated railroad interlocking tower which is similar in design to the original towers used around the Union Loop by the Union Elevated Railroad in downtown Chicago. Sur... More
Atlanta, Georgia. Railroad roundhouse, American Civil War Glass Negati...
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Southern Pacific Railroad Shasta Route, Bridge No. 301.85, Milepost 30...
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Alton Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River between IL & MO, Alton, Madis...
See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Survey number: HAER IL-21 Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction
Santa Fe Railroad, Sanitary & Ship Canal Bridge, Spanning Sanitary & S...
Significance: This bridge is one of seven surviving swing bridges built in 1899 across the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Survey number: HAER IL-39 Building/structure dates: 1899 Initial Construction
Camas Prairie Railroad, Second Subdivision, From Spalding in Nez Perce...
Significance: It retains 6 of its original 7 tunnels and 44 of its more than 50 original bridges and trestles. These structures enabled the tracks to rise from a starting elevation of approximately 800' by the ... More
Camas Prairie Railroad, Second Subdivision, From Spalding in Nez Perce...
Significance: It retains 6 of its original 7 tunnels and 44 of its more than 50 original bridges and trestles. These structures enabled the tracks to rise from a starting elevation of approximately 800' by the ... More
Camas Prairie Railroad, Second Subdivision, From Spalding in Nez Perce...
Significance: It retains 6 of its original 7 tunnels and 44 of its more than 50 original bridges and trestles. These structures enabled the tracks to rise from a starting elevation of approximately 800' by the ... More
Camas Prairie Railroad, Second Subdivision, From Spalding in Nez Perce...
Significance: It retains 6 of its original 7 tunnels and 44 of its more than 50 original bridges and trestles. These structures enabled the tracks to rise from a starting elevation of approximately 800' by the ... More
[Railroad tracks and utility poles along a waterway and cliff, with ro...
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Saugus River Drawbridge, Spanning Saugus River at MBTA Railroad Easter...
Significance: The Saugus River Drawbridge is a single-leaf Strauss overhead counterweight bascule which is believed to be the oldest known example of its type in Massachusetts. It is particularly significant f... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Sault Ste. Marie International Railroad Bridge, Spanning Soo Locks at ...
Significance: The Sault Ste. Marie International Railroad Bridge has nine camelback truss spans crossing the St. Marys River with bascule and vertical lift bridge components crossing the American Locks at the S... More
Zh.d. damba v Sorocheĭ Gubi︠e︡.
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Mystic River Drawbridge No. 7, Spanning Mystic River at Boston & Maine...
Significance: Drawbridge No. 7 is apparently the last horizontally folding railroad bridge in the eastern United States. Its technology is representative of the earliest patented movable span bridge in the cou... More
Railroad near Bf.(?) (probably Bluefields) looking toward Greytown
Railroad tracks through jungle, Nicaragua. Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description