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
World's Fair, railroad exhibit. B & O 5600 and trylon and perisphere
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large internat... More
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
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.
Details of engine in the yard at Big Spring, Texas
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Great Depression FFS...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Great Depression. FS...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A black and white photo of a train coming down the tracks, Great Depre...
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
At the freight terminal of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in Caribo...
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
Chicago, Illinois. Working on a locomotive at the Chicago and Northwes...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a s...
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. Servicing an engine at the roundhouse at a Chicago ...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bensenville, Illinois. The "Midwest Hiawatha" of the Chicago, Milwauke...
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 couple of men standing next to a train. Office of War Information Ph...
Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More
Cajon (vicinity), California. A Union Pacific Railroad train headed fo...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it. Office...
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
Bensenville, Illinois. Switching operations in Bensenville yard of the...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-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.
The Grand Canyon excursion railroad, Williams, Arizona
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The railroad runs, complete with train-robber 'shootout... More
A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) steam train crosse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route was originally opened in 1882 by... More
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 Cumbres & Toltec Scenic (C&TS) Railroad steam train, having left hig...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The C&TS is a three-foot narrow gauge heritage railroad running between Chama, New Mexico and Antonito. It runs over 10,015-foot Cumbr... 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
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
Hanover Junction Pennsylvania, 1863, railroad station. Detail of engin...
Photograph attributed to Mathew B. Brady or assistant. Original negative in National Archives.
East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Roundhouse, State Route 994, W...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Roundhouse, State Route 994, W...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Night scene at an American railway junction: Lightning Express, Flying...
14021 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1876, by Currier & Ives, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compil... 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
Railroad depot at Nashville, Tenn. during American Civil War
Stereograph showing an aerial view of the railroad depot in Nashville Tennessee with a line of Union locomotives, each required to move supplies to the Army of Tennessee. No. 6652. Part of series: The War for t... More
Bringing wounded soldiers to the cars after the battle of Seven Pines
Wounded soldiers brought to a train in carts and on stretchers. Tentative sketches of soldiers on verso. Title devised from inscriptions. Inscribed above image: "Battle Field" Fairoak [sic] Station Richmond and... 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
Tribune Building, 154 Printing House Square, Nassau & Spruce Streets, ...
Significance: One of New York's first skyscrapers when built in 1874, the Tribune Building was raised to its present height by the addition of nine stories in 1905. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and wa... More
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
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...
Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...
Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More
Engine "Fred Leach? (i.e.) The General
Printed on mount: (Miller, v. 8, p. 277). Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View on Pope's Head, near burnt bridge, Orange & Alexandria Railroad
Photograph showing two locomotives pulling into the Union Mills Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in Clifton, Virginia. Two soldiers stand guard on the bank at right. No. 229. Title from another ve... More
Trevithick's first passenger-carrying common road locomotive, Camborne...
Print shows overhead, side, and front views of steam locomotive for use on roadways. Illus. in: Life of Richard Trevithick, with an account of his inventions / by Francis Trevithick, C.E. Illustrated with engr... More
Below Hunlocks i.e. Hunlock, Pa
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012213. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Floridia. Southern R.R., Punta Gorda, Florida
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Seventeen mile grade near Everet's, mammoth plate negative
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Anaconda, Colorado; View looking across valley. Man is photographing o...
Photo by W.H. Jackson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
First train into Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska.
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Passenger (observation) locomotive train car of New York Central RR
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
Track elevating at road crossing, Joliet, Ill
Jacket title: Chicago and Alton Railroad, track elevation at road crossing. "80" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042361. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
E.H. Harriman's special train, Erie R.R.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Chicago and Alton Railroad, engine]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
An Engineer at his post - 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
[Train in station] - 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.
Train rounding a curve - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Title devised by cataloger. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Thomas Lake logging camp - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Lumberjacks, logs and steam-powered logging machine & railroad. J140689 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Ricket Photo. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tr... More
Central Factory, Cuba - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Railroad trains, Utah] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Ore train crossing Markham Trestle. Photoprint copyrighted by L. Hollard, Salt Lake City, Utah. No. 545. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More
So. R.R. Co. Crescent Locomotive
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More
Keep 'em going! / Ketterlinus Philadelphia.
Poster showing a German soldier fleeing from an oncoming locomotive bearing insignia, "U.S." "Every bad order locomotive is a Prussian soldier. Every live locomotive is an American soldier. Let us get on top of... More
Railroad views in rear of Union Station. Train approaching Union Stati...
Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More
Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.
A black and white photo of a train on a track, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington,... More
Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.
A black and white photo of a train on a track, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington,... More
Closer view of wrecked engine [near Deir esh-Sheikh]
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Palestine disturbances 1936. Sunken locomotive, after plowing up the w...
Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The log train passes through the lumber camp en route to Rhinelander, ...
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 train on the tracks, West Virginia. Farm ...
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 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 an old fashioned steam engine. Great Depres...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
World's Fair, railroad pageant locomotives. Locomotive II, close-up fr...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large internat... More
World's Fair, railroad pageant locomotives. Locomotive II, from back
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large internat... More
A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Great ...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
USSC (United States Sugar Corporation) hauls sugarcane from the fields...
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
C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the gia...
Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right.
World's Fair, railroad exhibit, modern locomotives. Lackawanna 1939, d...
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 locomotives. Pennsylvania R.R., detail
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 pageant locomotives. Locomotive II, from side
Item title devised. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Great ...
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
Detail of switch engine in the yards at Big Spring, Texas
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a train coming down the tracks, Great Depre...
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
Chicago, Illinois. An Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad engine deliver...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Engineer getting into his cab. In a few minutes thi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Wellington, Kansas. Engineer B.F. Hale, of the Atchison, Topeka and Sa...
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
Chicago, Illinois. Double header Pennsylvania railroad train pulling o...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Clinton, Iowa. Women wipers of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad g...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Vaughn, New Mexico. One of the 5000 Class Atchison, Topeka and Santa F...
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 steam engine train. Office of War Informa...
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
Blue Island, Illinois. Daniel Senise at his job at an Indiana Harbor B...
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
Clinton, Iowa. Women wipers of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad c...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More