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
U.S. cavalry supplies unloading at Tampa, Florida /
"Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry. In the foreground a score of troopers are pulling, lifting and hauling an ambulance from a flat car. ... More
![[Los Angeles, Calif. LaGrande Station]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTkvMDEvMDEvbG9zLWFuZ2VsZXMtY2FsaWYtbGFncmFuZGUtc3RhdGlvbi02NDAuanBn/40/30/webp "[Los Angeles, Calif. LaGrande Station]")
[Los Angeles, Calif. LaGrande Station]
Photo of railroad trains in station. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, 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.
Ware and Milburn, near Overton, Nebraska.
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Prince Henry, ready for a ride in the Cab of the Engine drawing his Sp...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Shelling corn out of a Nebraska corn crib, twelve miles north of Kearn...
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Parovoz "Kompaund" s paroperegri︠e︡vatelem Shmidta
The railcar in the background is thought to be Prokudin-Gorskii's traveling photographic laboratory and living quarters.
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)
G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Li...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
World's Fair, railroad exhibit locomotives. N & W 1206, general view
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
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...
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D. & R.G.W. railroad locomotive. Montrose, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. One of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's gian...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
Production. Steam power plant equipment. Filling tube holes on a high-...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive used for switching purposes at a Chicago...
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of men working on a train. Office of War Infor...
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
Cajon, California. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad train going...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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.
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
A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...
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 Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...
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 Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...
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 Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...
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
One of 13 steam locomotives at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum, an ou...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum re-creates "short-line" railroad town life during the "Golden Age of Railroading" in the United States during the early to ... 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
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
Lightship 116, Pier 3, Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Significance: Lightship 116 is one of the last extant lightships in the United States and has had few modifications during its service. Four generations of lightships were in use in the United States from 1820 ... 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
Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...
Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... 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 Adrian, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI
Survey number: HAER VI-6
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... 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
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
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
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
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 image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Shooters Island, Ships Graveyard, Vessel No. 53, Newark Bay, Staten Is...
Significance: Vessel 53, the MINERVA (formerly the JANE MOSELEY), is a sidewheel steamer that was built in Brooklyn in 1870. Most of its hull is below water, but the assembled wooden A-frame for the walking be... More
Fair Lane, Powerhouse, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Fair Lane, Powerhouse, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Boston Water Works, Leavitt Pumping Engine, 2450 Beacon Street, Boston...
Significance: The Leavitt triple expansion steam pumping engine is the oldest engine extant at the Boston Water Works Chestnut Hill Station. Designed by one of the country's leading mechanical engineers of the... 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
Norfolk & Southern Steam Locomotive No. 1218, Norris Yards, East of Ru...
Survey number: HAER AL-39 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Wilmington & Northern Railroad, Repair Shop, Beech Street, Wilmington,...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
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
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
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
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
Milford Ice & Coal Company, 18 Maple Avenue, Milford, Sussex County, D...
Public domain photograph of a compressor engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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 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
![[Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives] - 19th century Virginia.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjUvMDEvMDEvcmljaG1vbmQtdmEtZGFtYWdlZC1sb2NvbW90aXZlcy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/39/webp "[Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives] - 19th century Virginia.")
[Richmond, Virginia Damaged locomotives] - 19th century Virginia.
Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.
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
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
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
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 photograph - historical image of Delaware, United States, 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
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