St. Segezh. Ob. vid - Color separation negative, public domain
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Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad, Oak Viaduct, Overbrook Trolley L...
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Union Elevated Railroad, Randolph-Wabash Avenue Station, Randolph Stre...
Significance: One of the stations along the Union Elevated Railroad's Loop. The Loop is part of one of the oldest elevated rail systems still in operation in the United States. This station served an integral... More
![[Horseshoe curve near Maria Furnace, Pennsylvania]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDAvMDEvMDEvaG9yc2VzaG9lLWN1cnZlLW5lYXItbWFyaWEtZnVybmFjZS1wYS0xLTEwMjQuanBn/40/31/webp "[Horseshoe curve near Maria Furnace, Pennsylvania]")
[Horseshoe curve near Maria Furnace, Pennsylvania]
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Western Pacific line runs through unclaimed desert of northern Oregon....
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Bollman Truss Bridge, Spanning Little Patux...
Significance: The Bollman Truss Bridge at Savage is the last of its type in the United States. The Bollman Truss is usually credited with being the first type of iron truss bridge used in large numbers on an A... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Benwood Bridge, Benwood, Marshall County, W...
Survey number: HAER WV-15 Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Heber Creeper Railroad Line, Vivian Park Bridge, Spanning South Fork o...
Significance: The Vivian Park Bridge has been determined to be eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. It is considered to be a contributing element to the significant Bridal Veil F... More
Union Elevated Railroad, State Street Station, Van Buren Street, Chica...
Significance: One of the stations along the Union Elevated Railroad's Loop. The Loop is part of one of the oldest elevated rail systems still in operation in the United States. This station served an integral... 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
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
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between CT & MA state lines,...
Survey number: HAER RI-19 Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical im... More
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
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
Avalanche of snow across railroad tracks, Alaska
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Double tracks and tanks (N. Y. & L. B. R. R.) near Long Branch, N. J. ...
Photograph shows train moving along track; water coming from underneath train. Copyright 1894 by F. W. Blauvelt, N. Y.
Neck of Y: railroad juction near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1895
Photograph shows railroad junction with train traveling on left side of tracks and train coming into the railroad station on the right.
Helsingfors. Finland postcard. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...
Print shows train tracks in Helsinki, Finland. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the Russian Empire Postcards (Library of Congress). Purchase; Marshall Winokur; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:208). Accession bo... More
![[Railroad at Narrows] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjAvcmFpbHJvYWQtYXQtbmFycm93cy02MGQzNGUtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "[Railroad at Narrows] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.")
[Railroad at Narrows] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Title from reference print. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Locomotive C & A coal car, Public domain image
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In summit cut, Green Mountains - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...
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![Track level, showing stairway and elevators, Penna. [Pennsylvania] Station, New York](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDUvMDEvMDEvdHJhY2stbGV2ZWwtc2hvd2luZy1zdGFpcndheS1hbmQtZWxldmF0b3JzLXBlbm5hLXBlbm5zeWx2YW5pYS1zdGF0aW9uLW5ldy15b3JrLTEwMjQuanBn/40/31/webp "Track level, showing stairway and elevators, Penna. [Pennsylvania] Station, New York")
Track level, showing stairway and elevators, Penna. [Pennsylvania] Sta...
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![[Washington, D.C., switch yards, Union Station]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDcvMDEvMDEvd2FzaGluZ3Rvbi1kYy1zd2l0Y2gteWFyZHMtdW5pb24tc3RhdGlvbi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "[Washington, D.C., switch yards, Union Station]")
[Washington, D.C., switch yards, Union Station]
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Suburban station, Petoskey, Mich.
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Kanawha Falls, New River canyon, West Virginia.
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Samai︠a︡ bolʹshai︠a︡ vyemka u Ustʹ-Katava
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Railroad yard and Burlington Station, looking west, Kearney, Nebraska.
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph of a locomotive, train car, railroad trucks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Express track 9th Ave. "L" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows the express tracks of the Ninth Avenue El (elevated railroad) in New York City. The new configuration for express trains was done as part of a system upgrade from 1914-1915. (Source: Flickr Com... More
Zheli︠e︡znodorozhnyĭ most Murm. zh.d.
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Railroads. Train, Washington State region
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Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Railroad tracks intersecting road
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![[Train tracks near Potomac River, Washington, D.C.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzAvMDEvMDEvdHJhaW4tdHJhY2tzLW5lYXItcG90b21hYy1yaXZlci13YXNoaW5ndG9uLWRjLTEwMjQuanBn/40/30/webp "[Train tracks near Potomac River, Washington, D.C.]")
[Train tracks near Potomac River, Washington, D.C.]
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The hotchkiss frog, railroad yards. Omaha, Nebraska
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World's Fair, railroad exhibit. B & O 5600 and trylon and perisphere
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large internat... More
Chicago, Illinois. Making up a train at a Chicago and Northwestern Rai...
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Chicago, Illinois. Cars on classification tracks at an Illinois Centra...
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Cajon (vicinity), California. A Union Pacific Railroad train headed fo...
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Lynchburg, Virginia. Railroad station
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Argentine, Kansas. An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train pulling out...
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Carrollton (vicinity), Missouri. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Ra...
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Cleveland, Ohio. A trainlaod of iron ore leaving the Pennsylvania Rail...
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Making up an Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad train
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Erie Railway, Collins Station, Collins, Erie County, NY
Survey number: HAER NY-135 Public domain photograph of train station platform, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Elevated Ry. curve, Coenties Slip, Wall Street, skyscrapers in backgro...
Stereograph showing view of the city with skyscrapers in the background and street railroads traveling across elevated railroad tracks. H74261 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1906 by H.C. White Co. On mount: T... More
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
Erie Railway, Avon Station, Railroad Avenue, Avon, Livingston County, ...
Survey number: HAER NY-52 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Joshua Falls Bridge, Spanning James River at CSX Railroad, Lynchburg, ...
Significance: The Joshua Falls Bridge is associated with a nationally significant transportation corridor, the James River of Virginia. The 1901 five-span Pratt Through Pin Truss bridge constitutes the only cr... 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
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
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
Kach Station and blockhouse near the divide between Harnai and Quetta
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Fleetwood Railroad Station, Broad Street at MacQuesten Parkway, Fleetw...
Significance: The station of the former New York Central and Hudson River Railroad's Harlem Branch is significant as one of the surviving stations erected during the period in the first decades of the 20th cent... More
Pawtuxet River Railroad Bridge, New Haven Railroad over Pawtuxet River...
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"Grand Canyon." Elk Canyon on Black Hills and Ft. P. R.R
Section of train track next to the side of a mountain. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.
Pennsylvania Railroad, 52nd Street Bridge, North Fifty-second Street a...
Significance: The bridge's main span, a pin-connected Parker through truss, is an exceptionally long example of its type. Its length surpasses the practical limit of 300', beyond which a subdivided Pennsylvania... More
Der. Lovasʹ-Guba na bolʹsh. gubi︠e︡ Onezhskago ozera
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![[Railroad tracks and utility poles along a waterway and cliff]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDUvMDEvMDEvcmFpbHJvYWQtdHJhY2tzLWFuZC11dGlsaXR5LXBvbGVzLWFsb25nLWEtd2F0ZXJ3YXktYW5kLWNsaWZmLTEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/35/webp "[Railroad tracks and utility poles along a waterway and cliff]")
[Railroad tracks and utility poles along a waterway and cliff]
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cherry Creek Railroad Bridge, Spanning Cherry Creek, north of Delgany ...
Significance: The bridge is a single span wrought iron or steel through Pratt truss and is one of the few remaining examples of this once-common bridge type in Denver. The bridge features a unique, decorative p... More
Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS
Significance: In 1928 the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Company completed a new rail line along the Tombigbee River to connect the recently acquired track of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pen... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Illinois Central Railroad Passenger...
Significance: The Illinois Central Railroad has clearly been the most important rail carrier to serve Dubuque. Although built as the second passenger depot on the site in 1945, this structure is historically s... More
Illinois Central Railroad Station, Michigan & Roosevelt Streets, Chica...
Survey number: HABS IL-1106 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad, McKinley Park Bridge, Overbrook ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Bridge, Spanning Sanitary & Ship Ca...
Significance: This bridge is one of the seven surviving 1899 wing bridges built across the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Survey number: HAER IL-79 Building/structure dates: 1900 Initial Construction
Boston Elevated Railway, Elevated Mainline, Washington Street, Boston,...
Significance: Elevated structure is the last remaining portion of a formerly extensive elevated rapid transit system built at the turn of the century in Boston. / This portion of the Orange Line elevated is his... More
North Pennsylvania Railroad, Landis Ridge Tunnel, Beneath Landis Ridge...
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Zheli︠e︡znodorozhnyĭ most Murm. zh.d.
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Birmingham Mineral Railroad Viaduct, Spanning Newfound Creek, Birmingh...
The location was changed from "Spanning King Creek" to "Spanning Newfound Creek" to more accurately reflect its location. "L&N Railroad Cane Creek Branch Trestle No. 10" was also added as a secondary name afte... More
Southern Railway Company, Spencer Shops, Salisbury Avenue between Thir...
Significance: The Spencer Shops served as the largest maintenance and repair facility in the Southern Railway Company system. The extant structures provide important indications of the requirements of large sc... More
Bridge No. 110, Spanning Wepawaug River & Prospect Street at Metro-Nor...
Significance: Bridge No. 110 was part of the railroad expansion program and was constructed between 1892 and 1896. Designed in 1893 by F.S. Curtis, Chief Engineer and constructed in 1894, the structure has bas... More
Nebraska City Bridge, Spanning Missouri River near Highway 2 between N...
Report also released under the alternate title, "Behemoths: The Great River Bridges of George S. Morison" Significance: With his long-span railroad bridges over the navigable Midwestern rivers, civil engineer G... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization Syste...
Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-v... More
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Susquehanna River Bridge, Spanning Su...
Significance: The structure is significant as a late example of a reinforced concrete arch design by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, and perhaps the longest such structure on the former P&R system. Its des... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Pier 19, Hudson River waterfront, Jers...
Significance: The pier and its attendant structures represent the last vestiges of the repair facility for the harbor craft of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, which developed its huge harborside transportat... More
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad, Darby River Bridge, Spa...
Significance: Because Pennsylvania has few low-lying areas, the bridge is one of a limited number of movable railroad structures in the state, and even more rare as an overhead-counterweight bascule bridge. Un... More
Union Elevated Railroad, Randolph-Wabash Avenue Station, Randolph Stre...
Significance: One of the stations along the Union Elevated Railroad's Loop. The Loop is part of one of the oldest elevated rail systems still in operation in the United States. This station served an integral... More
Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡
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Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡
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Prokudin Gorskii: Stant︠s︡īi︠a︡ Soroka. Color separation negative
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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
Blackstone River Railroad Bridge, New Haven Railroad over Blackstone R...
Significance: Erected in 1897, the five-span, 376-foot Blackstone River Railroad Bridge carries both main line tracks of the Amtrak Northeast Corridor over the Blackstone River and Branch Street. This riveted ... More
Armour, Swift, Burlington Bridge, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO
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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
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Thurmond Yards, East side New River, mouth...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence...
Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in ... More
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
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
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](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTAvMDEvMDEvYmVsb3ctaHVubG9ja3MtaWUtaHVubG9jay1wYS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "Below Hunlocks [i.e. Hunlock], Pennsylvania")
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]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDUvMDEvMDEvZ3JlYXQtZ29yZ2Utcm91dGUtbmlhZ2FyYS1nb3JnZS1yYWlscm9hZC1uaWFnYXJhLWZhbGxzLTEwMjQuanBn/40/31/webp "[Great Gorge route, Niagara Gorge Railroad, Niagara Falls]")
[Great Gorge route, Niagara Gorge Railroad, Niagara Falls]
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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.