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Petites constructions. Locomotive et tender / Imagerie d'Épinal.

Print showing cutout designs for a steam locomotive and coal car with figures for the engineer and coal tender. Also shows the completed design for the small-scale construction paper cutout. Imagerie d'Épinal, no. 1204.

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.

[Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway locomotive]

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

Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡

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The First locomotive. Aug. 8th, 1829. Trial trip of the "Stourbridge L...

Crowd watching the trial trip of the first locomotive, the "Stourbridge Lion". G52817 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting. Copyright by Clyde O. DeLand.

Locomotive in a railroad yard, Chicago and Northwestern RR (?), near C...

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Locomotive Building, Lower Tank Farm, n...

Significance: It was located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was associated with early base development at Pearl Harbor and the use of railroads within the base and with the coaling stati... More

[Nashville, Tenn. Railroad yard and depot with locomotives; the Capito...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Hood before Nashville. Continuing his policy of the offensive at any cost, Gen. John B. Hood brought his reduced army before the defenses of Nashvill... More

Sourbeck house Alliance, Ohio / Aug. Hani, Lith. St. Clair St. Pittsbu...

Print shows an exterior view of the Sourbeck House train station with passenger cars for the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail Way on one track and a locomotive for the Cleveland & Pittsburgh R.W. on another... More

Ready to haul the President's train, - Union Pacific Engine at North P...

H62633 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co. No. 9947.

Council City & Solomon River Railroad, Locomotives, Nome Vicinity, Nom...

Survey number: HAER AK-16 Public domain photograph of a ship harbor, sailing boats, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[City Point, Virginia "General J. C. Robinson" and other locomotives o...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June-1864-April 1865.

Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡

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Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡

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Locomotive engine. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows locomotive engine on display. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852, v. 2, frontis.

The fastest time on record - Public domain portrait drawing

Photograph shows a train running under full steam. 60344Z U.S. Copyright Office. Photo'd by A.P. Yates, Syracuse, N.Y., May 10, 1893, when Engine 999 drawing the Empire State Express train, made the record of 1... More

Electric locomotive, N.Y.C. R.R. New York Central Railroad

"New York Central Lines" and "N.Y.C. & H.R." on train. "36" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019934. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Stripping and boxing foreign engine for shipment, Baldwin Locomotive W...

H70665 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7094. Public domain photograph of a workshop, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Knickerbocker Special leaving St. Louis Union Station]

H85578 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Railroads. Men working on locomotive I

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

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.

Janesville's first locomotive. Book illustration from Library of Congr...

Gift; Willard Centenary Celebration, National Woman's Christian Temperance Union; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:053). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as chapter heading in:... More

The Goliah, at Wadsworth, Big Bend of Truckee River

No. 307. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, Nevada. Scenes on the Humboldt River. For more information about this collection, see, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.stereo

Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station i...

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

First locomotive of U.S. Railroad, Alaska

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

A mile a minute - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

W7146 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted." Caption: A genuine English railway locomotive imported expressly for this great scene at a cost of $25000.00." Created by "The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cinti, N.Y. & Lon... More

The limited mail Elmer E. Vance's famous railroad play.

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Richmond, Virginia Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroa...

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

A crippled locomotive in Richmond - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing Union soldiers and a civilian standing on and near a locomotive at the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Depot which was destroyed by Confederate troops as they fled the city. Over 700 build... 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 locomotive to cross Allegheny Mountains

Photograph shows a group of passengers, including a woman, sitting and standing at the front of a Sandusky locomotive. LC 1391. Published in: Pioneer Women / Linda Peavy and Ursual Smith (1998), p. 24.

[Exterior view of the (Imperial Military) Medical School (seacoast)] /...

Trains and tracks at the Imperial Military Medical School. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 43. No. 560. In album: Imperial military and medical schools, with student and teacher po... More

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

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

Tunnel "7", Temasopa [i.e. Tamasopo] Canon, Mexico

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

Presidential train--President McKinley and cabinet enroute through the...

McKinley and others beside flag-bedecked locomotive. 3430 U.S. Copyright Office.

New Mallet articulated compound engine on the Santa Fe

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

Chicago and Alton Railroad, engine

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042213. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Locomotive pulling cars alongside road, possibly road construction in...

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Locomotive and coal car at a railroad yard, c...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Various views and studies, Russian Empire and Europe, LOT... More

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant...

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

Train bound for Atlin, British Columbia, Alaska - 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.

The Goliah, at Wadsworth, Big Bend of Truckee River

No. 307. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, Nevada. Scenes on the Humboldt River. For more information about this collection, see, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.stereo

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

Wreck on I.C.R.R., near Farmer City, Ill., Oct. 6, '09

Photograph shows cleanup crew and onlookers around wreckage of an Illinois Central Railroad train. J132975 U.S. Copyright Office Illinois Central Railroad. No. I. Copyright claimant's address: Decatur, Ill. Co... More

Poster - The great train robbery - Public domain lithograph

Caption: Sensational and startling "hold up" of the "Gold Express", by famous western outlaws. Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." No. 7319. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, At...

Significance: The Marietta Road Bridge comprises a pair of three span pin connected Double Intersection Pratt through trusses. Its designer and/or fabricator are unknown but the technological character of the ... More

[City Point, Virginia "General J. C. Robinson" and other locomotives o...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June-1864-April 1865.

[Richmond, Virginia Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroa...

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

At Dock Street wharf / Schell & Hogan ; JL[?] sc.

Print shows congestion of horse-drawn carts and wagons overburdened with merchanise on Dock Street, also handcarts, teamsters and longshoremen, and railroad locomotives and cars for hauling goods from ships to ... 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.

Locomotive building #2 - Waldon Fawcett photograph

Snapshot--In the New York Central yards

Print shows locomotive with billowing smoke in the railroad yard, New York City.

In the heart of the mighty Andes--Oroya Ry. bridge in the sublime Infu...

Train locomotive on bridge leading to tunnel in Andes. H117374; U.S. Copyright Office. No. 18503.

General view of wreck, I.C.R.R., Farmer City, Ill., Oct. 5, '09

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Canadian scenes. Locomotive - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

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

Jerry on the job. "413-414-415-416, gee, this coal shortage is getting...

Seven-frame comic strip. Jerry, working in a railyard, counts lumps of coal. He reports the number to his boss, Mr. Givney, adding that some coal can be purchased in "New Monia." The boss orders him to go ge... More

Santa Fe R.R. freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Cor...

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

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.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Locomotive Building, Lower Tank Farm, n...

[City Point, Virginia Another locomotive at the same point]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Union Pacific engine coming out of roundhouse to haul President Roosev...

Stereograph showing locomotive engine #104 on track in front of roundhouse.

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Electric Loc...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-I Public domain photograph of diesel or electric train engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Under the gaslight, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870...

K14809 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Oofty Gooft's New York Combination. Signed: Vic Arnold. Forms part of: Theatrical post... More

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, At...

"General Haupt" locomotive, used by General Herman Haupt during the Ci...

Photograph shows the "Gen. Haupt" locomotive and five men posed inside the car and outside near the railroad tracks. Title from Prints and Photographs accessions record. Letter relating the history of the locom... More

Engine "General Haupt," Alexandria, 1863 (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows wood burning locomotive "Gen. Haupt" named for Herman Haupt, chief of Construction and Transportation, in front of the roundhouse at the Alexandria station. No. 232.

[Composite of four railroad trains]

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

N.Y. Central and Hudson River Railroad wreck at Batavia, N.Y., Feb. 18...

Photograph shows a railroad locomotive sitting on top of another locomotive. 8263 U.S. Copyright Office.

Below Hunlocks [i.e. Hunlock], Pennsylvania

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

Inspection engine, D.L. & W. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

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

Poster - A.Q. Scammon's Side tracked - Public domain lithograph

10778 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: The pacemaker. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3657. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library o... More

Track elevating at road crossing, Joliet, Ill.

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

National Cemetery, monument to the Andrews Raiders, Chattanooga, Tenne...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, graves, monuments, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[A characteristic row of smokestacks at steel works, Homestead, Pennsy...

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

Parovoz "Kompaund" s paroperegri︠e︡vatelem Shmidta

The railcar in the background is thought to be Prokudin-Gorskii's traveling photographic laboratory and living quarters.

Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broke...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street s...

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

Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

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.

The progress of the century - the lightning steam press, the electric ...

Man using telegraph in foreground; in background are people using steam press, steamboat, and locomotive. 4614 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, ... More

Sourbeck house Alliance, Ohio / Aug. Hani, Lith. St. Clair St. Pittsbu...

Parovoz "Kompaund" s paroperegri︠e︡vatelem Shmidta

The railcar in the background is thought to be Prokudin-Gorskii's traveling photographic laboratory and living quarters.

Destruction of the locomotives on the bridge over the Chickahominy

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly. Inscribed over image: The R.R. Bridge was burned [?]. Trees too high. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.548) Re... More

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Electric Loc...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-I Public domain photograph of diesel or electric train engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of electric train engine, l... More

The great train robbery - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Under the gaslight, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870...

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, At...

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

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

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

[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

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..

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

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