236 Railroad construction and maintenance Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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[Railroad construction on the City Point and Army railroad line]

Photograph shows construction on the railroad near City Point, Virginia. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support ... More

Railroad engineer oiling up before the start

Title from jacket. Cf. negative D4-17222. Negative cracked from lower right corner. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033378. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Romain railroad camp below Buda, Buffalo County, Nebraska, laying doub...

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

Cleaning an engine near the roundhouse, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., Bensen...

12002-14. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of...

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

Bau der Ḥiğâzbahn Erdarbeiten nördlich von Tebûk bei km 685.

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

Landing place, railway stores, Balaklava, looking up the harbour - Rog...

Men seated by railroad bed under construction next to Balaklava harbor. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his lett... More

The contractors book ... / H. Gerlach ; J.S. Vernam, mechanical engine...

Print shows construction of a railroad and a canal in a wilderness area. Illus. in: The contractors book of working drawings of tools and machines used in constructing canals, rail roads and other works, with b... More

Construction of mattresses - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frank G. Carpenter inspecting new railroad, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

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

Rapid transit work at 59th St. & Central Park west, June 8th, 1901

Columbus Circle, New York City. H5882 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underhill photographer, New York City.

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

Section crew at work on the track, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., Bensenville...

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

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

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.

In mid air. A wonderful blast in building railroad to Deadwood

Black cloud from explosive blast on side of mountain. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Deep Cut, Bitter Creek, near Green River (Andrew J. Russel)

Men working in trench carved into rock near Bitter Creek in south central Wyoming. No. 60a. Part of series: Union Pacific R.R. views, across the continent, west from Omaha.

Cochran's Railroad construction (Burlington and Missouri River Railroa...

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

Frank G. Carpenter on left of railroad bed, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

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

E.O. & W. RY.: Ceremony of driving first spike--Dalhart, Tex.--Sept. 2...

Copyright by H. Wuethrich. No. 2. Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The contractors book of working drawings of tools and machines used in...

Print shows a landscape with a canal and, at center, railroad construction, extending railroad tracks on levee above a river. Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1854 by George Cole, in the Clerks Office o... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Group of railroad construction participants n...

Photograph shows the narrow gauge railway that runs from the town of Kem to the port of Kem-Pristan. (Source: International Research Project "The Legacy of S.M. Prokudin Gorsky" 2012-2016) Title devised by Libr... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views along the Murmansk railway, Russian Emp...

Photographic survey of the construction of the Murmansk railway, including views of the railroad, excavation and construction, depots and stations, railroad bridges, workers, and officials. Also includes views ... More

Donner Lake, Tunnels No. 7 and 8 from Summit Tunnel, eastern summit in...

Group of people near tunnel entrance. No. 203. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, California. Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Deep Cut, Bitter Creek, near Green River

Men working in trench carved into rock near Bitter Creek in south central Wyoming.

Completion of the Pacific Railroad - meeting of locomotives of the Uni...

"Photographed by Savage & Ottinger, Salt Lake City." Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1869 June 5, p. 356.

Work on the last mile of the Pacific Railroad--Mingling of European wi...

Men removing large rocks from hill for completion of the Pacific Railroad. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 13, no. 648 (1869 May 29), p. 348.

David Hall's railroad camp at West Union - surveying from Sargent to B...

summary: Note: Together with picture RG2608-3490A this photograph forms a panorama of Hall's camp. original size: 6x8

Track to be straightened in the Bloomington yards

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

At the new railroad left to right are: Mr. Edes, Frank G. Carpenter, L...

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

[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

[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

Martha White driving first spike in the government railway, Alaska

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

Track to be straightened in the Bloomington yards

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

[Construction work, grade separation from Buchanan Street, Detroit, Mi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Big Pennsylvania hole (for station), N.Y.

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

Track repair work at the Bensenville yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, S...

Trestle work - Promontory Point, Salt Lake Valley (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows Central Pacific Railroad construction workers standing on railroad flatcars being pushed by locomotive across trestle at Promontory Point in Salt Lake Valley. Illus. in: Sun pictures of Rocky ... More

Portrait photo of Gruppa uchastnikov zh.d. postroĭki

A group of men standing next to a train track. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pepper's railroad camp, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Note: "David Hall's place on the railroad grade on the Middle Loup River from Sargent to Brewster, Nebraska." One of the men pictured in the foreground has a coyote pup resting on his shoulder. origi... More

Railroad graders west of Sargent, Nebraska.

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

Standing in bed of new railroad, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska - Frank G. C...

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

Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight...

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

The contractors book of working drawings of tools and machines used in...

Steam shovel doing construction work for the Western Pacific Railroad

Photograph shows railroad construction workers with steam shovel in operation digging during the construction of the Western Pacific Railroad. Copyright 1906 by P. J. Thompson, Loyalton, Cal. Title from copyrig... More

Bau der Ḥiğâzbahn Schienenlegung bei Tebûk. 1906.

Plate 56 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina, Nord Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Letterpress caption in German. Translated title by Library staff.

[Railroad crew and tracks, Mexico]

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

Track to be straightened, Normal, Ill's.

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

New railroad, 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.

Group of railroad graders near Elm Creek, Buffalo County, Nebraska.

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

Servicing engines at coal and sand chutes at Argentine yard, Santa Fe ...

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

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa ...

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

Citadel rock, Green River Valley (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows construction of a railroad bridge in the Green River Valley, Wyoming, and Citadel Rock, a prominent rock formation rising above the plateau. Illus. in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery, ... More

New bridge over Potomac River on the Washington, Alexandria and George...

Photograph showing construction on a trestle railroad bridge across the Potomac River. Caption continues: S. Seymour, chief engineer, C.B. Morse, constructing engineer, S.S. Post & Co., contractors.

New Jersey--The removal of President Garfield, with his physicians and...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1881 Sept. 24, p. 56-57.

Camp on B & M grade west of Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska.

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

Cochran's Railroad construction (Burlington and Missouri River Railroa...

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

Prince Hilkoff, Minister of Ways and Communications, with his staff, i...

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Crane being used in construction of new railway bridge, Alaska

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

Workmen laying track, 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.

Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & N...

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views along the Murmansk railway, Russian Emp...

Construction work on the Eastern Siberian Railway near Khabarovsk

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Construction work on the Eastern Siberian Railway near Khabarovsk

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, ...

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

Citadel rock, Green River Valley (Andrew J. Russel)

The contractors book ... / H. Gerlach ; J.S. Vernam, mechanical engine...

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

S.C. Troubtman camp, railroad graders west of Sargent, Nebraska

summary: Note: Two men in the foreground are playing cards original size: 6x8

David Hall's railroad camp at West Union - surveying from Sargent to B...

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Railroad graders above Sargent, Nebraska.

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

Babe White driving first spike in U.S. Railroad - Frank G. Carpenter c...

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

Track straightening near Coal City, Ill.

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

Railroad engineer oiling up before the start

Title from jacket. Cf. negative D4-17222. Negative cracked upper left corner and taped. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033377. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, ...

Image similar to USW36-688. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-7. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.... More

C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one o...

Photograph probably shows Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers. Compare to USW36-639.

Donner Lake, Tunnels No. 7 and 8 from Summit Tunnel, eastern summit in...

Group of people near tunnel entrance. No. 203. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, California. Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Steam shovel doing construction work for the Western Pacific Railroad

Excavating for "Y" at Devereux Station, Orange & Alexandria Railroad (...

Photograph shows General Hermann Haupt supervising a construction site at Devereux Station of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in Clifton, Virginia. The locomotive bears his name. At right is J.H. Devereux, su... More

Excavating for "Y" at Devereux Station, Orange & Alexandria Railroad (...

Zheli︠e︡znodorozhnyi︠a︡ postroĭki Shadrinsk-Sinarskoĭ zh. d. okolo Sha...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Deep Cut, Bitter Creek, near Green River (Andrew J. Russel)

Men working in trench carved into rock near Bitter Creek in south central Wyoming. No. 60a. Part of series: Union Pacific R.R. views, across the continent, west from Omaha.

Deep Cut, Bitter Creek, near Green River

Men working in trench carved into rock near Bitter Creek in south central Wyoming.

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

S.C. Troubtman camp, railroad graders west of Sargent, Nebraska

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

[Railroad construction through residential area in Georgia]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 317. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Locomotive New railroad, Alaska, Public domain image

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

Track straightening near Coal City

Jacket title: Chicago and Alton Railway [Railroad], track straightening near Coal City, upper curve. "82" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042363. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

New railroad, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

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

[Journal Building and street railroad construction, possibly Detroit, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cleaning an engine near the roundhouse, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., Bensen...

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

Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, working as a sweeper at the rou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

A freight train stopping for coal and water at a siding enroute to Gal...

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

Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith sh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The railway at Balaklava, looking south / W. Simpson, del. ; R. Carric...

Construction of the railway in Balaklava at the harbor, also shows masts of numerous ships, and on a hill in the distance, the ruins of the old Genoese castle. Colnaghi's Authentic Series. Déposé Paris, Goupil & Cie.