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
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.
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012023. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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
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 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, ...
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
"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
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
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...
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 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
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...
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,...
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]
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]
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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...
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
"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
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017223. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
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
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 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 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 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 ...
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 ...
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
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 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, 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.
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
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
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
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
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 Chero...
Photograph shows enourmous crowd gathered around and riding on locamotive. Copyright 1908 by Lee A. Perry, Caldwell, Kansas.
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, 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
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
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 & 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 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
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
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 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
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, 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)
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
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
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 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...
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,...
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 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...
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 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]
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, 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
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]
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 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...
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 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 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 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 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
"65" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04541. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
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
"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)
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
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
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 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
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 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
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...
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...
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, 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
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...
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071418. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
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,...
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
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
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 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 ...
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