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.
Governor Dillingham, of Vermont / photographed by Black & Case, Boston...
Three illustrations: one showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Governor Paul Dillingham; one showing the oldest fire engine in the United States; and the other showing people digging in garbage dump looking fo... More
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.
[The steam fire engine belonging to the Fire Brigade unit from the Imp...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 18. In album: Fire Brigade personnel and equipment, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library ... More
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.
President Roosevelt's special train at Cinnabar, Montana
H31862 U.S. Copyright Office. Cppyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fireboat "New Yorker" in action /
A demonstration by the famous fireboat "New Yorker." The picture shows the fireboat with all its nozzles spurting water as it goes back and forth in front of the camera. Put in service on February 1, 1891 as En... More
Engine passing the "Needles"-from the bluffs along the Columbia, Orego...
H76248 U.S. Copyright Office No. 21840. Copyright 1906 by C.L. Wasson.
Roosevelt going into Africa - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Pres. Roosevelt with two friends and one of the guides riding on the front of the locomotive from Mombassa to Nairobi. Color halftone repro. of photoprint, copyrighted by The Illustration Bureau. This record co... More
Webster threshing crew, north of Gibbon, Nebraska.
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Locomotive in railroad yards along river, St. Louis, Missouri
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Great ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Workman having lunch at the Chicago and Northwester...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Los Angeles, California. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe local freight ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, 22-Inch Mill Engine, 400 State...
Significance: Drives 21-inch Single train cross-country structural mill. Survey number: HAER PA-49-C Building/structure dates: 1910 Initial Construction
A water tower, steam engine, and tender at tiny Osier, Colorado, stati...
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
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
Steam locomotive and coal tender in on a roundhouse turntable in the t...
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
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
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
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
Carnegie Steel-Ohio Works, Steam Engines, 912 Salt Springs Road, Young...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HAER OH-33
Carnegie Steel-Ohio Works, Steam Engines, 912 Salt Springs Road, Young...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HAER OH-33
Carnegie Steel-Ohio Works, Steam Engines, 912 Salt Springs Road, Young...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HAER OH-33
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
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
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
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
Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...
Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More
Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...
Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More
Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...
Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More
Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...
Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More
Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...
Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More
Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...
Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More
Boz Gin Complex, Scales House, 27.58 feet south of Great House Road, W...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the old Boz Gin Complex. The complex was a good example of one of the area farms that produced some of the highest yields of cotton in the nation. Unproc... More
Double-Compound Steam Engine "Sierra Nevada", Seaplane Anchorage vicin...
Significance: A presently rare example of an engine representing, in general, an important stage in steam engineering and, specifically, a form of engine once widely used for ferryboat propulsion. Unprocessed ... More
Double-Compound Steam Engine "Sierra Nevada", Seaplane Anchorage vicin...
Significance: A presently rare example of an engine representing, in general, an important stage in steam engineering and, specifically, a form of engine once widely used for ferryboat propulsion. Unprocessed ... More
The danger signal - Print, Library of Congress collection
Engineer of locomotive giving danger signal, as another train approaches. Printed in oil colors by Currier & Ives, N.Y. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Rese... More
Houston-White Company Mill & Basket Factory, Main Street & Railroad Av...
Significance: The history of the Houston-White company demonstrates how changes in agricultural production significantly altered the produce basket industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unprocess... More
Creque Marine Railway, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VI
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Creque Marine Railway, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VI
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
USS MISSOURI, Batttleship Row, Ford Island, Pearl City, Honolulu Count...
Significance: USS MISSOURI was the last battleship built by the United States. Her type dominated naval strategy and tactics until World War II when aircraft carriers supplanted battleships as the dominant cap... More
Silver King Mining Company, Mineshaft & Main Hoist, Woodside Gulch, Pa...
Significance: The Silver King Mining Company became one of the major producers in the Park City district of Utah and attained a brief reputation as the richest silver mine in the known world. One of the smalle... More
Duluth & Iron Range Railway, Three-spot Locomotive, D & IR Railroad De...
Significance: The "Three Spot" locomotive, also known as Engine No. 3, was the first locomotive used by the railroad. Survey number: HAER MN-35 Building/structure dates: 1883 Initial Construction
USS Arizona, Submerged off Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Honolu...
Significance: USS ARIZONA, a steel hulled battleship, was destroyed during the Japanese attach on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Struck by a bomb and possibly torpedoes, this ship was sunk, along with other... More
USS Arizona, Submerged off Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Honolu...
Significance: USS ARIZONA, a steel hulled battleship, was destroyed during the Japanese attach on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Struck by a bomb and possibly torpedoes, this ship was sunk, along with other... More
USS Arizona, Submerged off Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Honolu...
Significance: USS ARIZONA, a steel hulled battleship, was destroyed during the Japanese attach on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Struck by a bomb and possibly torpedoes, this ship was sunk, along with other... More
The first steam engine designed and built in the United States, by Oli...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Estate Whim, Overhead Crank Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Westend Quarter,...
Significance: The overhead crank steam engine and associated cane crusher now displayed at the Estate Whim Museum were manufactured by P. & W. McOnie, Glasgow, Scotland in 1847. Originally installed at Estate M... More
Estate Annaly, Sugar Mill, North Side, St. Croix, VI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HAER VI-8
The first steam railroad passenger train in America
The Mohawk & Hudson Rail Road showing a steam engine with car for fuel followed by two passenger cars styled after the stagecoach. Includes historical text and identifies several of the riders depicted in the i... More
[City Point, Virginia "General J. C. Robinson" and other locomotives o...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June-1864-April 1865.
Locomotive with snowplow of narrow gauge railroad, Telluride, Colorado
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Norfolk & Southern Steam Locomotive No. 611, Norris Yards, East of Ruf...
Survey number: HAER AL-38 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Norfolk & Southern Steam Locomotive No. 611, Norris Yards, East of Ruf...
Survey number: HAER AL-38 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Steam Tug HERCULES, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco Cou...
Significance: The Steam Tug HERCULES is a National Historic Landmark, significant as the only oceangoing steam tug on the West Coast. Typical in the early 20th century, this steam tug hauled log floats, large ... More
Steam Tug HERCULES, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco Cou...
Significance: The Steam Tug HERCULES is a National Historic Landmark, significant as the only oceangoing steam tug on the West Coast. Typical in the early 20th century, this steam tug hauled log floats, large ... More
Steam Tug HERCULES, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco Cou...
Significance: The Steam Tug HERCULES is a National Historic Landmark, significant as the only oceangoing steam tug on the West Coast. Typical in the early 20th century, this steam tug hauled log floats, large ... More
McNeil Street Pumping Station, McNeil Street & Cross Bayou, Shreveport...
Significance: The McNeil Street Pumping Station is typical of steam-powered municipal water pumping facilities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries for cities of moderate size. Its significance lies in it... More
Lightship No. 83, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Lightship No. 83 is one of three surviving lightships and "the oldest on the West Coast." Of the three surviving lightships, "only No. 83 has retained her original marine steam engine and machine... More
Lightship No. 83, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Lightship No. 83 is one of three surviving lightships and "the oldest on the West Coast." Of the three surviving lightships, "only No. 83 has retained her original marine steam engine and machine... More
Lightship No. 83, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Lightship No. 83 is one of three surviving lightships and "the oldest on the West Coast." Of the three surviving lightships, "only No. 83 has retained her original marine steam engine and machine... More
Lightship No. 83, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Lightship No. 83 is one of three surviving lightships and "the oldest on the West Coast." Of the three surviving lightships, "only No. 83 has retained her original marine steam engine and machine... 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
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
Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...
See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More
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
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
Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 (Shoal Point), Richmond, ...
The Schooner was moved from Sausalito, California to Richmond, California Significance: The last surviving example afloat of some 225 steam schooners specially designed for use in the 19th and 20th century Paci... More
Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 (Shoal Point), Richmond, ...
The Schooner was moved from Sausalito, California to Richmond, California Significance: The last surviving example afloat of some 225 steam schooners specially designed for use in the 19th and 20th century Paci... More
Harlan & Hollingsworth Company Factory, 100 South West Street, Wilming...
Public domain scan of castle plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Steam Engine & Mill, 2.65 Mi. N of PR...
Significance: The La Esperanza's decorated steam engine is the only West Point Foundry beam engine known to survive. It is also the only known 6-column beam engine by any American manufacturer. Additionally, i... More
Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Steam Engine & Mill, 2.65 Mi. N of PR...
Significance: The La Esperanza's decorated steam engine is the only West Point Foundry beam engine known to survive. It is also the only known 6-column beam engine by any American manufacturer. Additionally, i... More
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
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
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
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
Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI
Significance: The factory at Estate Reef Bay affords one of the finest surviving examples of the sugar industry in the West Indies. Boiling coppers, used for processing cane-juice, remain in place in their maso... More
Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI
Significance: The factory at Estate Reef Bay affords one of the finest surviving examples of the sugar industry in the West Indies. Boiling coppers, used for processing cane-juice, remain in place in their maso... More
Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI
Significance: The factory at Estate Reef Bay affords one of the finest surviving examples of the sugar industry in the West Indies. Boiling coppers, used for processing cane-juice, remain in place in their maso... More
The downfall of Mother Bank - Public domain drawing
A pro-Jackson satire applauding the President's September 1833 order for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. The combined opposition to this move from Bank president Nicholas Bid... More