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Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Jupiter & Lake Worth R.R. - 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

Tunnel 8, Temasopa [sic] Canon - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old aqueduct at Queretaro, Mexico, mammoth plate negative

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

Steam locomotive number 4 of the Illinois Central Railroad Company

In album: American locomotives, 1890-1910, page 33, no. V271-82.

U.S.S. Massachusetts, steam steering gear

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

Pacific Express, Chicago and North Western Ry.

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

White Pass Railway train on the shores of Lake Bennett

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

Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Train built ca. 1829, on Baltimore & Ohio R.R. From Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce. No. 33386.

Flood on the KATY, no. 1 / Gannaway, SMcA, no. 1.

Photograph shows a Missouri-Kansas-Texas train under several feet of water. Passengers stand on top of the train.

Steam shovels, Panama Canal - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073170. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

German troops en route to Russia

Photograph shows German soldiers seated on top of a railroad locomotive going to Russia, during World War I. (Source: Flicker Commons project, 2011)

World's Fair, railroad exhibit, modern locomotives. Canadian Northern ...

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

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

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

Chicago, Illinois. Train pulling out of one of the classification yard...

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

The Central Pacific Railroad's "Gov. Stanford" locomotive No. 1 is one...

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

Locomotive of the Georgetown Loop Railway, a scenic steam train that r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

A steam train operated by the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad, a herita...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The railroad was started in 1983 by a group of volunteers who wanted to preserve a scenic section of the former Fort Dodge, Des Moines... More

The great race for the Western stakes 1870

Print shows Cornelius Vanderbilt and James Fisk in a race for control of New York's rails. Throughout 1868 and 1869, the two men had fought for control of the Erie Railroad. (See also "The Statue Unveiled," no.... More

Locomotive - Print, Library of Congress collection

1974 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: American Bank Note Co.

A mile a minute - 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

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

[Amphibious steam powered carriage and paddle boat designed by Oliver ...

Illus. in: The Boston mechanic and journal of the useful arts and sciences. Boston : G.W. Light & Co., 1834 July, p. 17. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonar... More

The self-propelling steam fire-engine, "J.C. Cary"

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 November 20), p. 749. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

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.

Threshing on J.B. Lee farm north of Shelton, Nebraska

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

Fire engine at World's Columbian Exposition grounds while buildings we...

Photograph shows two men operating steam powered fire engine; thick black smoke blows from steamer. No. 424.

[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.

[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.

Engine passing the "Needles"-from the bluffs along the Columbia, Orego...

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.

Steam train, Essex, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The Central Pacific Railroad's "Gov. Stanford" locomotive No. 1 is one...

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

Miscellaneous steam-engine components on the "back lot" at the Youngst...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Here, the museum keeps items awaiting disposition or use, scrap metal and other components awaiting restoration. Credit line: Photogra... More

Brandywine Pumping Station, Sixteenth & Market Streets, Wilmington, Ne...

Significance: It has historically been difficult for American cities to meet the ever-increasing demands of their citizens for water. The Brandywine Station represents an attempt made by one major city in the ... More

Richardson & Robbins Cannery, Kings Highway, Dover, Kent County, DE

Significance: Richardson & Robbins, founded in 1856, was the first cannery in the state of Delaware, and a pioneer in the American canning industry. Specializing in the processing and canning of food delicacie... More

18" Caloric engine - Drawing. Public domain image.

Invention of John Ericsson (1803-1889). Illus. in: John B. Kitching, Ericsson's Caloric Engine, 1859, p. 39. No file prints. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: P... More

The original "John Bull" - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Locomotive of Camden & Amboy Railroad Company. 19065Y U.S. Copyright Office. Original file in PR 12 SSF - Railroads Companies Camden & Amboy 1830.

[Railroad engineer oiling up before the start]

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

[Empire State Express, Utica, N.Y.]

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

Thomas Edison and his original dynamo, Edison Works, Orange, N.J., U.S...

Thomas Edison, standing, full-length portrait, in front of engine. No. 13001.

Engine number 894, Rock Island Railroad

Title devised. Date on locomotive. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

I.C.C.(?) work train & stairs leading out of Culebra-cut

J139042 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a steam engine, railroad, locomotive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A.J. Risch, threshing near Kenesaw, Adams County, Nebraska.

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

[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.

R.R. [i.e., railroad] train, June 30, 1920

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 train coming down the tracks, West Virgin...

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

Northern Pacific freight train going over Bozeman Pass. Gallatin Count...

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

Transportation. Engines. "MacArthur" engine in service on the Baltimor...

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

A westbound Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train passing by a...

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

Historic "iron horse" steam engine at Old Tucson, a movie studio and t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 for the movie "Arizona" in 1940, Old Tucson has been used for the filming of several movies and television westerns sinc... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

Outside the Tumbleweeds Restaurant in Evanston, Wyoming, an old oilfie...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... 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

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

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

Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE

Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...

[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

Dampf eilwagen auf der eisenbahn zwischen Liverpool und Manchester / C...

Print showing two views of passenger trains of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, with enclosed and open passenger cars, drawn by steam locomotives between Liverpool and Manchester, England.

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.

"The tyrannical military despotism of our Republic" Th. Nast

Image shows an incident in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 1867 when the Stonewall Fire Engine Company put an image of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson over their fire engine during the annual Fir... More

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

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

Prize locomotive 999 and the prize Wagner Palace car train

Photoprint copyrighted by A.P. Tates. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads; Ph. Ind.

Passenger (observation) locomotive train car of New York Central RR

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

Small locomotive used to draw cane cars 2 ft. gauge, India

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

Jaffa to Jerusalem. Train at Battir. Pulling up steep grade

Photograph shows a Baldwin 2-6-0 locomotive on the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway. (Source: researcher, A. Siton, 2015)

[Train, Train station] - 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

History of civic services in the city of New York Fire Department No. ...

Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing a horse-drawn steam fire engine racing to the scene of a building fire in 1841. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Li... More

Santa Fe RR freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwi...

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

Isleta, New Mexico. Fireman of a passing freight train on the Atchison...

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

A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam train pulls into the tiny Osi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The narrow-gauge trains run over 10,015-foot Cumbres Pass and through Toltec Gorge, from which it takes its name. As of 2015, the rail... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Mill, Park City West, Park City, Summi...

Significance: At the beginning of the twentieth century the Silver King Coalition Mine in Park City, Utah, was both the largest producer of ore and ore-concentrates in the region and the largest dividend-payer ... More

Estate Rust-Op-Twist, Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Christiansted, St. Cro...

Significance: Rust-op-Twist's long and troubled history as a sugar producing estate is typical of many other St. Croix plantations. An animal mill, and windmill, and a steam mill - representative of the evoluti... More

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

American railroad scene: snowbound

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0201

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The steam side paddlewheel tugboat EPPLETON HALL was the last of the famed British paddleboats to be built. Its engine is the once-common, but now rare, twin sidelever "grasshopper" engine. It ... More

[Early steam locomotive with toothed "propelling wheel" which gripped ...

Illus. in: The monthly magazine. [London : Printed for R. Phillips], 1814 June 1. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library ... More

[Engraved frontispiece showing pressure cookers opposite the title pag...

Illus. in: A new digester or engine for softning bones, .... / by Denis Papin M.D. London : Printed by J. M. for H. Bonwicke, 1681. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology .... More

Steam engine with 9 in. cyl. 18 in. stroke by J.T. Sutton & Co. Frankl...

Print shows front and side views and a cut-away view of a steam engine. Printed at top right corner: Pl. 1. Illus. from: The American engineer, draftsman, and machinist's assistant : designed for practical wor... More

["General Haupt" locomotive, used by General Herman Haupt during the C...

Photograph shows the "Gen. Haupt" locomotive and five men posed inside the car and outside near the railroad tracks.

Idaho. Boise. Train standing in Short Line Depot

Photograph shows a train sitting in empty depot. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to us...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The fastest train in the world. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Empire State Ex...

Moving palace of the nation's chief - presidential party's superb trai...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RR; Roosevelt, Theo.

Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y. /

The film was photographed from a boat going around Riker's Island. Located on the East River north of Hell Gate between the Bronx and Queens, Riker's Island was the site of a massive, controversial New York Cit... More

The Overland Limited leaving Sixteenth Street Station, Oakland, Califo...

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

A forest of stacks - in the yards of the great Homestead Steel Works, ...

H102353 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13141. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

H.M. Flagler's Special, first train crossing Long Key Viaduct, 2.7 mil...

H125504 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by J.N. Chamberlain, Miami, Fla. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Photog. Index; Railroads After 1840; Florida L- K-; ... More

Radford & Sons, near Newark, Kearney County, Nebraska.

summary: Subject: Plowing with a steam tractor. original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Train on the] highest single piling trestle in the world

J183812 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RR Bridges.

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

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

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

The Old 71 engine of the Colorado and Southern Railroad, which carried...

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

Bingham Canyon, Utah. An ore train of the Utah company

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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing ...

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.

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

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

Old Rogers locomotive (obtained from the Republic of Panama) at the lo...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting scenes in Paterson's historic district.

Engine, tender, and coach of the Mount Washington Cog Railway, display...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Beginning service in 1868, this was the world's first mountain-climbing rack-and-pinion, or "cog," railway. It uses a Marsh rack syste... More

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