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Pack und transport dampfwagen auf der eisenbahn zwischen Liverpool und...

Print showing two views of freight trains of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, with flatbed cars for hauling standard freight and cars with rails and cages for hauling livestock, drawn by steam loco... More

Railroad engine at City Point, Virginia

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

Ruins at Manassas Junction / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive b...

Illustration showing the remains of a turntable on the Orange and Alexandria railroad after the station was destroyed by retreating Confederates. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alex... More

Railroad mortar at Petersburg, Virginia, July 25, 1864 (Andrew J. Russ...

Photograph shows the mortar used to protect the United States Military Railroad. No. 304. Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 116 historic prints / by Andrew J. Russell ; with a preface by Joe Bube... More

Home views. No. 15, Rebel prison - 1865

Stereograph shows a bird's-eye or elevated view of Elmira prison camp in New York, with a long line of prisoners standing along the fence with rows of buildings in the background. No. 15. Printed on label: A ... More

Teaming from the Central Pacific Railroad at Cisco, Placer County

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Encarnacion bridge - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Logging train. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Train carrying large pieces of redwood trees, California. Illus. in: Redwood and lumbering in California forests. San Francisco, Cal. : Edgar Cherry & Co., publishers, 1884, [plate 21], following p. 84. No. 34.

Mines near Zacatecas, William Henry Jackson photograph

Landscape some with horse?-drawn wagons in foreground and train going up mountain, Mexico. Photoprint by William Henry Jackson. No. 0416. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Railroad near Bf.(?) (probably Bluefields) looking toward Greytown

Railroad tracks through jungle, Nicaragua. Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tomb of General Grant, Riverside Park, [N.Y.C.]

Horses and cannons in foreground, tomb in background (no. 35). Photoprint copyrighted by Carvalho. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: N.Y.C. Riverside Park; Death; Pres.

Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pennsylvania, shaft house

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011588. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Passenger cars of the Southwestern Limited, New York-St. Louis]

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

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.

Lumber camp, Dismal Swamp - 19th century Virginia.

No. 1076. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Passenger train in mountains] - 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.

Copy of Lehigh Valley Railroad train

Title from jacket. Photograph of photo from unidentified source. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 42245. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Marine tractor for 3-inch guns - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Public domain photograph of a tractor, bulldozer, construction vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cleveland & Pittsburgh ore docks, Cleveland

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

Locomotive C & A coal car, Public domain image

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Shut-down, Rhine Metal works, Dusseldorf

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

[Oakwood yards] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Susquehanna River at Owego Narrows, N.Y

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012182. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The skidway over which the great logs are dragged to the mill, Millwoo...

H15100 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Floating dry dock, Algiers, La.

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Locomotive [Car of Goodwin Car Co.], Public domain image

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Great snow shed, Canadian Pacific R.R., B.C., Canada

No. 13866. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Transfer Str. Detroit in the ice

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

Cars stalled on 4th Ave. in storm [New York]

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

Greetings from Epworth Heights, Mich. The dummy

Postcard shows rail station along a shore lined with recreational boats. The train station is occupied by uniformed soldiers, the "Dummy train" is leaving the station filled with passengers. F65832 U.S. Copyri... More

Suburban station, Petoskey, Mich.

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

Gathering apples on the interurban

Trainload of sugar cane, Cuba - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

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

Broken rail which wrecked "20th Century"

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Steam engine threshing on the farm of B.C. Hutchinson near Lowell, Neb...

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

At the Traps, Travers Island - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Public domain photograph of railway map, railroad tracks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Railroad yard and Burlington Station, looking west, Kearney, Nebraska.

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

PERU SCENES - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Veterans' Train, Gettysburg - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Photo shows the Gettysburg Reunion (the Great Reunion) of July 1913, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Express track 9th Ave. "L" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the express tracks of the Ninth Avenue El (elevated railroad) in New York City. The new configuration for express trains was done as part of a system upgrade from 1914-1915. (Source: Flickr Com... More

Army Equipment, El Paso - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

[Camp Holabird, Baltimore, Maryland]

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

Strike at Braddock, 5216 - Where a man was killed

Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is... More

Joliet Works, Illinois Steel Company, Joliet, Ill

No. 18419. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp Pike, 12th National Army Cantonment, Little Rock, Arkansas

J226104 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Kansas City, Mo. Copyright deposit; Verne O. Williams Photographic Co.; November 5, 1917; DLC/PP-1917:45578.

Empire Coal & Coke Company, tipple and loading booms, Landgraff, West ...

Three coal cars being loaded by tipple and loading booms. U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps photo. Jeffrey, no. 3234-C.

Supplies and equipment from American Expeditionary Forces arriving in ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Capt. Marshall. Group title: Poland (Supplies) On caption card: (101) Gift; A... More

Canadian scenes. Automobile on wood road

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

Canadian scenes. Sightseeing car II

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

Railroads. Train, Washington State region

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

Railroad yard. Pullman cars. 1920s Washington DC. Public domain.

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

[Locomotive and tractor on display]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Marine Corps trucks passing through [...] on their way to Quantico

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

Past & present in locomotives, 6/4/23

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

[Train] - 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.

McComb, Mississippi. Special train sponsored by the McComb Chamber of ...

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

Miniature RR of Jno. N. Swartzell, 8/5/29

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

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washingt... More

A black and white photo of a train yard. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train yard. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a truck loaded with boxes. Great Depression...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train going down the tracks. Great Depres...

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

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Great Depression FFS...

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

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Great Depression FFS...

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

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Great Depression FFS...

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

A man standing next to a fire hydrant near a train. Great Depression F...

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

A black and white photo of a train yard. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

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A black and white photo of a train track, Farm Security Administration...

To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist. Transfer; Un... More

Coal cars in railroad yard at Williamson, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a train in the snow. Great Depression FFSA ...

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

Palestine disturbances during summer 1936. Derailed train at Kefr-Jenu...

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.

Palestine disturbances 1936. Derailed engine and flat car near Ras el-...

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Location identified as Ras el-Ain based on caption for neighboring image (LC-M33-9140). Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Navy destroyer 139 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

The main log train going through the lumber camp en route to Rhineland...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a man sitting on top of a train, West Virgi...

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

A black and white photo of a man and a cow on a train track, West Virg...

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

A couple of men standing on a train track, West Virginia. Farm Securit...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Residents at Boothville, Louisiana sitting on dock

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

Delivery of materials. Standard load of barn panels being assembled on...

Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, construction workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a train track, West Vi...

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Along main road between Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia

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

The hotchkiss frog, railroad yards. Omaha, Nebraska

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A man is pulling a horse drawn sleigh in the snow, Vermont. Farm Secur...

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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.

World's Fair, railroad pageant locomotives. Locomotive II, from side

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large i... More

Sugar beets are unloaded over flumes in which hot water carries them t...

Pushing in the last few crates of vegetables into boxcar. Elsa, Texas

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

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Va...

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

A black and white photo of a train car FSA/OWI - Farm security adminis...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

West bound Santa Fe R.R. freight train waiting in a siding to meet an ...

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

Wagonloads of cotton waiting at the gin of Delta and Pine Land Company...

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

Sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

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

Grain elevator along railroad yard. North Platte, Nebraska

Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Free...

12002-58. 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

"We wreck anything!" Auto graveyard near Sulphur Springs, Maryland, o...

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

A black and white photo of a boat in the sand, Great Depression. FSA/O...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

War transportation. Military traffic comes first. One reason why shipm...

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