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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

[Rear and side view of George Stephenson's steam locomotive and railro...

Illus. in: Reports on canals, railways, roads, and other subjects, made to "The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvement" / By William Strickland ... while engaged in the service of the s... More

First through train from Houston, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana, up...

Photograph shows crowd gathered around train running through the center of town.

Map showing the route of the Duluth & Winnipeg Railroad and its connec...

Map shows the north-central states with drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network indicated. Emphasizes the main line. Scale 1:2,217,600. LC Railroad maps, 401 Description derived from published bibl... More

Map showing the new transcontinental route of the Atlantic & Pacific R...

Map covering the southwestern states but extending from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. 12027 U.S. Copyright Office Scale ca. 1:3,800,000. LC Railroad maps, 330 Description derived from published bibliography. Sh... More

Railroad commissioner's map of Mississippi.

Shows drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network with color coding. Scale ca. 1:1,150,000. LC also has an 1898 edition. LC Railroad maps, 243 Description derived from p... More

Map of Multnomah County, Oregon : compiled from county records, railro...

Relief shown by hachures. Cadastral map showing lot lines and numbers, landowners' names, schools, churches, post offices, and geographical features. "Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1889 by R.A. Habe... More

Prize locomotive 999 and the prize Wagner Palace car train

Photoprint copyrighted by A.P. Tates. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads; Ph. Ind.

Workmen repairing railroad track

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

New York and Brooklyn Bridge: Promenade and Manhattan [street railroad...

Photoprint copyrighted by George P. Hall. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Bridges; St. RR.

Passenger (observation) locomotive train car of New York Central RR

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

Steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa, C. & N.W. Ry. [i.e. Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Car interiors, dining car, Chicago and Alton Railroad]

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Railroad tracks and utility poles along a waterway and cliff, with ro...

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

[Michigan Central Railroad station, Ann Arbor, Mich.]

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

Railroad guard on duty during the railroad strike

Guard seated on box by railroad tracks, Washington, D.C. National Photo Company Collection. No. 20090.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading logs onto railroad car near Effie, Minnesota

Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Railroad station of Circleville, Ohio (see general caption)

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

Railroad workers, Port Barre, Louisiana

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Railroad. Newark, New Jersey - safety film negatives, Library of Congr...

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

General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Il...

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

Railroad station, Fairfield, Montana

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

General view of part of the South Water street freight depot of the Il...

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

General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Nor...

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

Quadricycle used on narrow gauge railroad. In the early days this took...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Loading potatoes into a freight car at the freight terminal of the Ban...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other on a train track. Office of...

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

Iden, New Mexico. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad section gang ...

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

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard and roundhouse

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Iden, New Mexico. Baking bread in the kitchen car of the work train on...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vaughn, New Mexico. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad meets t...

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

Road through the mountains of Utah, cut by the builders of the Transco...

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

Exterior view of Nicholas Diner, 88 East Railroad Avenue.

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

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

Trenton House Hotel, 20-24 North Warren Street & 1-19 East Hanover Str...

Significance: The Trenton House was one of Trenton's most famous and prestigious hotels in the 19th century, serving politicians in town for the work of the state legislature and travelers who arrive at the nea... More

Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, Meadville Repair Shops, Storehouse,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HAER PA-11-C Building/structure dates: 1865-1866 Initial Construction

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tray Run Viaduct, Spanning Tray Run, Rowles...

Significance: The original bridge on this site was designed by Albert Fink and utilized his patented truss type. It was replaced by a wrought iron trestle in 1887. This structure was replaced by a masonry arc... More

Negro laborers carrying and laying railroad ties for a spur line into ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

West Feliciana Railroad Right-of-Way, Woodville, Wilkinson County, MS

Significance: The sites of the West Feliciana line, its Office and Banking House, and the early twentieth-century Depot are significant as one of the most important concentrations of railroad history in the Dee... More

Digel Block (Commercial Buildings), 218-220-222 South Main & 112 Lyon ...

Significance: A good example of the turn of the century small town commercial architecture. The vernacular form includes varied and unusual ornamentation. Digel Block is the last of the commercial buildings con... More

Seven Oaks Plantation, Westwego, Jefferson Parish, LA

Significance: At Westwego across the river from uptown New Orleans stands one of the most impressive of Louisiana's great Greek Revival plantation mansions. Only Oak Alley in St. James Parish exceeds it in arc... More

[Richmond, Va. Ruins of Richmond & Danville Railroad bridge; the city ...

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

Copper River & Northwestern Railroad, Gilahina Bridge, Mile 28.5, McCa...

Significance: Part of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway route, this bridge illustrates the ingenuity and drive of the railroad builders. Built during the winter of 1911 in only eleven days, this 180 fo... More

Washington Avenue Bridge, Spanning Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks, M...

Significance: The Washington Avenue Bridge is a single-span, steel Pratt through-truss bridge with a wooden deck and walkway. While the Pratt was an extremely common type, the Washington Avenue Bridge is the o... More

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Roundhouse, Kentucky A...

Significance: The roundhouse at Deer Lodge is part of one of the largest and earliest electrification projects in the U.S. as well as being the largest wooden structure of its type remaining in the U.S. Survey... More

Union Passenger Station, Third West & South Temple, Salt Lake City, Sa...

Significance: The Union Passenger Station provided joint depot services for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City Railroad, and the Oregon Short Line Railroad. The Chateauesque structure was completed i... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Outfitting Pier No. 2, 97 East ...

Significance: Constructed in circa 1901 and substantially rebuilt in 1940/40, Pier 2 is significant as the oldest and primary outfitting pier in the Quincy-Fore River Shipyard. It has been an integral componen... More

San Francisco Cable Railway, Cable Car Powerhouse & Barn, 1201 Mason S...

also CAL,38-SANFRA,137- San Francisco Cable Railway Significance: San Francisco's three surviving cable car routes all operate out of this two-story brick building. Erected in 1907-08, this structure replaced ... More

Cambria & Indiana Railroad, Colver, Cambria County, PA

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

The world's railroad scene / Swain & Lewis, des. & lith. 103 State, Ch...

Print showing well-dressed passengers waiting as the Illinois Central Railroad train pulls into the station; also shows a steamship, horse-drawn carriage, stagecoach, and canal boat, along with a large globe di... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Track Scales,...

Significance: The D,L & W scale was made by the Fairbanks Company, one of the oldest manufacturers of platform scales in the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Sur... More

Kennecott Copper Corporation, Machine Shop, On Copper River & Northwes...

Significance: The Machine Shop was erected in 1916 as part of the general expansion of the Kennecott facilities that took place between 1915 and 1918. Over time, the Machine Shop was expanded to include additi... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, no...

Significance: With its sixteen plate-girder spans of various ages, is an excellent example of American railroads' practice of recycling main-line structures into branches and sidings. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Delaware, Lackawana & Western Railroad, Crossing Guard House, Central ...

Significance: An example of the small supportive structures of the railroad industry made obsolete by automation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-344 Survey number: HABS NY-5595

Jackson Street Shops, Jackson Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, Saint Paul...

Significance: The Jackson Street Shops are historically significant as the oldest existing railroad complex in Minnesota. The events leading to the development of railroading in Minnesota and the Northwest; th... More

San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...

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

Atlas of Athens county, Ohio, to which is added a township map of the ...

Phillips, 2355 LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 677.1, 693.1, 709.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Passenger terminal, Chicago and Northwestern Ry.]

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

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

Mrs. Raphael Marengin, [...] St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. ol...

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Wood-Frame Warehouse Type, Between McCloy...

Significance: Buildings 618, 718, 818, 1003, 1004 and 1005 are contributing elements of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the Natio... More

American railroad scene: snowbound

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0201

Railroad station, Manchester, Georgia

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

Back Bay Station, 145 Dartmouth Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Significance: This station stands where the Boston and Providence Railroad and the Boston and Albany Railroads originally crossed in the middle of the Back Bay's waters. It has been the site of a major passeng... More

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...

Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More

Atlanta, Georgia. Railroad yards, American Civil War Glass Negative.

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

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Tracks & Shed, 800 North Alameda...

Significance: Union Station has been designated Los Angeles Cultural History Landmark No. 101. In 1980, it was entered on the National Register of Historic Places. The statement of significance from the Natio... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Finger Piers 22 & 23, Railroad Avenue near...

Significance: Finger Piers 22 & 23, completed in 1942, are considered significant for their association with U.S. Naval history and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY), the first naval installation on the we... More

Cork Run Tunnel, Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad, from Chartiers Av...

Significance: The tunnel is one of 9 tunnels constructed on the original Pittsburgh and Steubenville Railroad and the only one that remains. The tunnel provided and important link between Pittsburgh and all poi... More

Chattanooga, Tennessee. Confederate prisoners at railroad depot

Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Significance: Nicodemus, Kansas, represents the earliest and most prosperous midwestern black settlement associated with the massive westward migration of former slaves out of the south during Reconstruction. ... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Z Tower, State Route 46, Keyser, Mineral Co...

Survey number: HAER WV-91 Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kennecott Copper Corporation, Company Store & Warehouse, On Copper Riv...

Significance: The Store and Warehouse building was built in 1917, along with several other additions to Kennecott Company Town. The concentration of functions in the new building reflected the continued growth ... More

Historical hand-atlas, illustrated, containing large scale copper plat...

Phillips, 11040 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 6413 Includes indexes, brief histories of Wood and Pleasants County, and brief biographies of early Wood and Pleasants County residents. Available also thro... More

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

Aiken house on Weldon Railroad, Virginia / negative by J. Reekie, posi...

Photograph showing a farm house near Petersburg. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 2, no. 71. Copyright by A. Gardne... More

Interior of a palace hotel car used on the Pacific Railroad / sketched...

Interior of dining car on railroad. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1869 May 29, p. 348.

Map of the country tributary to the Northern Pacific Railroad, compile...

Map of northwest part of United States and southwest part of Canada showing relief by hachures, drainage, isotherms, the wheat region, cities and towns, forts, routes and trails, the railroad network and the pr... More

[Composite of five railroad trains]

In album: Engravings of the American Bank Note Company arranged by Mr. A.G. Goodall, president of the company, 1874-88, p. 45.

The great railroad strike of July 1877

[8] Scenes and incidents at the principal points of the labor insurrection: (1) Ill. - the first attack by Chicago police on the mob; (2) Penn. - ruins of the round-house and carshops at Pittsburgh; (3) N.Y. - ... More

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.

Workmen laying the new railroad track on the night of September 5th / ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1881 Sept. 24, p. 56.

Gleason Railroad graders at Sargent, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map showing the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in...

Relief shown by hachures. Panel title: Preserve this Montana map, it shows the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana and Idaho, and in part of North Dakota, and in part of eastern Washi... More

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

[Car interiors, Chicago and Alton Railroad]

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

Hoxey testifies before Wheeler. Washington, D.C. Jan. 16. J.M.B. Hoxse...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Elevated railroad, Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill.]

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

[Chicago and Alton Railroad car interiors]

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

New railroad, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

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

Union Pacific Railroad Depot, North Platte, Nebraska.

summary: Note: In the foreground of this photograph a water wagon is wetting down the street to settle dust. original size: 6x8

[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.

Passenger terminal, Madison St. [Street] entrance, C. & N.W. Ry. [Chic...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Railroad map of Texas, 1926 / - Public domain map

Index of railroads and lines. Includes 3 insets of Fort Worth, Dallas, and Houston. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Palestine disturbances 1936. New trollies with machine-guns landed fro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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