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West Philadela. starch works - Public domain scan / drawing

West Philadela. starch works - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawing shows street level view of manufacturing buildings in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with railroad entering on lower left, a group of women gathered next to a small tree in the lower left corner, a ma... More

General passenger agents of some of the principal railroads

General passenger agents of some of the principal railroads

36984 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co.... More

Near Franklin, N.J - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Near Franklin, N.J - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012023. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Group of Lackawanna freight engines

Group of Lackawanna freight engines

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

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago ...

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Servicing these diesel streamliners takes five minutes

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the de...

Public domain photograph of diesel engine, train locomotive, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Virginia. Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad

Virginia. Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D... More

Union Pacific engine coming out of roundhouse to haul President Roosevelt's special

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

Stereograph showing locomotive engine #104 on track in front of roundhouse. H62632 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co.

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

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

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

Train in Cafetal of Temasopa sic

Train in Cafetal of Temasopa sic

"W.H.J. Phot. Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 4115. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Crowded railroad depot - Print, Library of Congress collection

Crowded railroad depot - Print, Library of Congress collection

57773 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Bakery & Arener, ... More

Railroads. Engineer in his cabin

Railroads. Engineer in his cabin

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight locomotives in the roundhouse, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas

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

12002-5. 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. Addi... More

C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa

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. 12002-13. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs i... More

Evolution of Transportation, gelatin silver print

Evolution of Transportation, gelatin silver print

J184251 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Harry H. Chesterman; July 31, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44639. Copyright claimant's address: Crookston, Minn.

Richmond, Virginia Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot

Richmond, Virginia Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress,... More

Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives. Washington DC sterescope card,...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress,... More

[Locomotive and coal car at a railroad yard]

[Locomotive and coal car at a railroad yard]

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

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

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

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

Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway locomotive

Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway locomotive

Title devised by cataloger. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 040124. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

An Engineer at his post - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

An Engineer at his post - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Initials on railroad engine: M.C.R.R. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017222. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Train - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Train - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Title from jacket. Photograph of a painting signed "William Harnden Foster, 1916." Detroit Publishing Co. no. X1796. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Train] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

[Train] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

Wee Willie Winkie's world. Willie Winkie had a fine walk in the country the other day ..

Wee Willie Winkie's world. Willie Winkie had a fine walk in the countr...

Six-panel Sunday comic strip in which a small boy, Wee Willie Winkie, goes for a fantastic walk and sees two poplar trees standing like sentinels, sheaves of wheat in a field that remind him of grandmothers, a ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Locomotive Building, Lower Tank Farm, near intersection of Sixth Street & South Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

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

The splendid engine drawing President  Roosevelt's special train, Fairmont, Nebraska

The splendid engine drawing President Roosevelt's special train, Fair...

H31856 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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

Tunnel 8, Temasopa sic Canon - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Tunnel 8, Temasopa sic Canon - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04107. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

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

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

"Ext" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032071. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Oiling up before the start - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Oiling up before the start - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017223. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Electric engine, Detroit River tunnel

Electric engine, Detroit River tunnel

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30995. "M.C.R.R." [Michigan Central Railroad Company] on locomotive. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072518. Gift; State Histo... More

Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. X

Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. X

Image has caption 1825 to 1850, and consists of several smaller images including, from upper right, clockwise: an unidentified rowhouse, a print of the National Hotel, City Hall, a print of an early steam locom... More

Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad

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

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill.

Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stoc...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill

Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stoc...

12002-2. 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. Addi... More

Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill

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

12002-1. 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. Addi... More

City Point, Virginia "General J.C. Robinson" and other locomotives of the U.S. Military Railroad

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

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June-1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

City Point, Virginia Another locomotive at the same point

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. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill

C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, working on a locomo...

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Locomotive and coal car at a railroad yard, color separation negative

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

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

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

Engine W. H. Whiton, and President's car, Alexandria, January,1865

Engine W. H. Whiton, and President's car, Alexandria, January,1865

Photograph shows a United States Military Railroad locomotive, W.H. Whiton, and the president's rail car, later used as Lincoln's funeral car. Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 116 historic print... More

Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico

Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico

Title devised by cataloger. Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. On train: Central Mexicano. "S S" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 30155. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Twentieth Century Limited - Mammoth Plate Photograph

Twentieth Century Limited - Mammoth Plate Photograph

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

Engines 4704 and 4051 of the L.S. and M.S. railroad

Engines 4704 and 4051 of the L.S. and M.S. railroad

Title devised. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Rock Island train at State Line, September 16th 1893. opening of Cherokee Strip, Caldwell, Kansas.

Rock Island train at State Line, September 16th 1893. opening of Chero...

Photograph shows enourmous crowd gathered around and riding on locamotive. Copyright 1908 by Lee A. Perry, Caldwell, Kansas.

New railroad, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

New railroad, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

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

National Cemetery, monument to the Andrews Raiders, Chattanooga, Tennessee

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

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29738. On monument: Ohio's tribute to the Andrews Raiders, 1862, erected 1890. "WHJ 623" on negative; "WHJ 625" on transp... More

Mikado type - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Mikado type - 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

Railroads. Locomotive, Washington State region

Railroads. Locomotive, Washington State region

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

Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill

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

12002-1. 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. Addi... More

A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hump. A brakeman rides each train to signal the engineer in the locomotive at the rear; Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hum...

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

Evolution of Transportation, gelatin silver print

Evolution of Transportation, gelatin silver print

J184251 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Harry H. Chesterman; July 31, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44639. Copyright claimant's address: Crookston, Minn.

Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives during American Civil War

Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives during American Civil War

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress,... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Parovoz "Kompaund" s paroperegri︠e︡vatelem Shmidta, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Parovoz "Kompaund" s paroperegri︠e︡vatelem Sh...

The railcar in the background is thought to be Prokudin-Gorskii's traveling photographic laboratory and living quarters. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The Goliah, at Wadsworth, Big Bend of Truckee River

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

Council City & Solomon River Railroad, Locomotives, Nome Vicinity, Nome, Nome Census Area, AK

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

Survey number: HAER AK-16 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Engine "E.M. Stanton," Alexandria, July 1864 (Andrew J. Russel)

Engine "E.M. Stanton," Alexandria, July 1864 (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows the locomotive "E.M. Stanton," built in 1862 and named for the secretary of war, on a turntable at the Alexandria railroad station. No. 239.

The Detroit news timely topics. The Midget and Leviathan

The Detroit news timely topics. The Midget and Leviathan

Photograph of a photographic print by "Atlantic & Pacific Photo." "Virginian" on side of large car. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 3000. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

President Harding "at the throttle" on government railway, in Alaska

President Harding "at the throttle" on government railway, in Alaska

J263861 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 18582. Public domain photograph related to President Warren G. Harding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad]; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad]; locomotives in th...

12002-1. 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. Addi... More

Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's, Chicago, Ill

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

12002-1. 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. Addi... More

Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives. Washington DC sterescope card,...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress,... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡, color separa...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Murmansk Railway, Russian Empire, LOT 103... More

Nashville, Tenn. Railroad yard and depot with locomotives; the Capitol in distance

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

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 Nashville... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Parovoz "Kompaund" s paroperegri︠e︡vatelem Shmidta, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Parovoz "Kompaund" s paroperegri︠e︡vatelem Sh...

The railcar in the background is thought to be Prokudin-Gorskii's traveling photographic laboratory and living quarters. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

[Railroad locomotive and coal car, Chicago and Alton Railroad]

[Railroad locomotive and coal car, Chicago and Alton Railroad]

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

Council City & Solomon River Railroad, Locomotives, Nome Vicinity, Nome, Nome Census Area, AK

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

Survey number: HAER AK-16 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oakland Hall near Norristown(?), engraving, Library of Congress

Oakland Hall near Norristown(?), engraving, Library of Congress

Drawing shows a large building on a hill, with a portico, columns, and a large square cupola, and a large lawn in front descending into the foreground; overlooks a smaller home or gatehouse on the lower right, ... More

[Locomotive and coal car at a railroad yard]

[Locomotive and coal car at a railroad yard]

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

Locomotive in a railroad yard, Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western RR (?), near Chicago, Ill.(?)

Locomotive in a railroad yard, Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Wes...

12002-1. 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. Addi... More

Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill

Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW...

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡, color separa...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Murmansk Railway, Russian Empire, LOT 103... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Zh.d. putʹ okolo st. Chernai︠a︡, color separa...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Murmansk Railway, Russian Empire, LOT 103... More

Wee Willie Winkie's world. Willie Winkie had a fine walk in the country the other day ..

Wee Willie Winkie's world. Willie Winkie had a fine walk in the countr...

Six-panel Sunday comic strip in which a small boy, Wee Willie Winkie, goes for a fantastic walk and sees two poplar trees standing like sentinels, sheaves of wheat in a field that remind him of grandmothers, a ... More

[Nashville, Tenn. Railroad yard and depot with locomotives; the Capitol in distance]

[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

Tracey sic, Minn., engine of the South Dakota division

Tracey sic, Minn., engine of the South Dakota division

"65" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04541. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Seventeen mile grade near Everet's, mammoth plate negative

Seventeen mile grade near Everet's, mammoth plate negative

"W.H. Jackson & Co., Denver.", "01722" and "38" on negative. Commissioned by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01722. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

R.R. Station & steamer dock, Muskegon

R.R. Station & steamer dock, Muskegon

"179" on negative. Ship at pier in background. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 2200. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The old and the new engines (front view)

The old and the new engines (front view)

Photograph shows front view of two locomotives. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mikado type, Detroit publishing company photo

Mikado type, Detroit publishing company photo

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31016. "A.T. & S.F." on engine; possibly Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. "4426" on negative and transparency. Detr... More

Locomotive 3840 - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Locomotive 3840 - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Photograph shows two women, holding American flags, standing atop locomotive; four men stand nearby.

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Servicing these diesel streamliners takes five minutes

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the de...

12002-7. 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. Addi... More

City Point, Virginia Another locomotive at the same point

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. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill

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

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

City Point, Virginia Another locomotive at the same point

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. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Richmond, Virginia Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot

Richmond, Virginia Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress,... More

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army

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

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

President Roosevelt on a Santa Fe engine, before reaching Redlands, Cal.

President Roosevelt on a Santa Fe engine, before reaching Redlands, Ca...

H33576 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 9943. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Engine, locomotive, 1500 h.p., Ste. Claire i.e. St. Clair tunnel, Port Huron, Mich

Engine, locomotive, 1500 h.p., Ste. Claire i.e. St. Clair tunnel, Port...

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071418. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Affectionate labor of fair hands to honor President McKinley--Presidential engine decorated by ladies of Santa Cruz, Cal.

Affectionate labor of fair hands to honor President McKinley--Presiden...

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

Catskill Mountain railway station, Haines Corners, Catskill Mountains, N.Y.

Catskill Mountain railway station, Haines Corners, Catskill Mountains,...

Title from Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). Also available as photographic print in LOT 9164 with copy negative LC-USZ62-56324 (b&w film copy neg.) "Dup" and "387-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing ... More

Consolidation type, Detroit publishing company photo

Consolidation type, Detroit publishing company photo

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31015. "A.T. & S.F." on engine; possibly Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. "4343" on negative and transparency. Detr... More

Building engines for the allies J. Pennell

Building engines for the allies J. Pennell

Drawing shows an interior view of a railroad locomotive factory with many men working, building locomotives. Title from Beall. Signed on stone at top and in pencil at bottom center. Edition of 50. Library has t... More

Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill

Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park stocky...

12002-2. 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. Addi... More

Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, 40th Street locomotive shops

Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR ...

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

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