Brakeman standing with a flag, waiting for a Chicago and Northwestern ...
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. Conductor handling engineer copy of train orders be...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Clovis, New Mexico. Checking a locomotive as it leaves the roundhouse ...
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 approach to the tiny Osier, Colorado, station about midway on the ...
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
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
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 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 Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam engine and tender prepare to ...
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
Boy hopping freight train, Dubuque, Iowa
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
High water - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Railroad train going through high water. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, 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
T.V.R.R. Bridge, head of Fox Gulch, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collec...
Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Photo by Johnson. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
Prairie fires of the great west
Train traveling across prairie ahead of fire. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5269
The fast mail - Print, Library of Congress collection
f12587 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Burck.
Town of McPhee, McPhee Road, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO
Significance: The company town of McPhee, Colorado, owned and operated by the New Mexico Lumber Company, lasted from 1924-1948, serving as an important economic and cultural town of the Delores River Valley. Du... More
Trains at Fox Station, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection
Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Photo by Johnson. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
Glover Machine Works, 651 Butler Street, Marietta, Cobb County, GA
Significance: Glover Machine Works has the distinction of being the oldest family owned manufacturing industry in Georgia. During its time in Marietta, it was a small but well established company producing sma... More
To all who travel by the / lith. by J.M.W. Jones S. & P. Co.
Print showing, around the outer rim of a horseshoe, immigrants from many nations arriving by steamship, a man with a mule pulling a canal boat, two bandits on horseback robbing travelers, and within the horsesh... More
Under the gaslight, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870...
K14809 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Oofty Gooft's New York Combination. Signed: Vic Arnold. Forms part of: Theatrical post... More
Scene at station in Randolph, Vermont
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...
Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More
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
President Roosevelt's western tour - the presidential train in the Roc...
H33975 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R. Y. Young. Public domain photograph of a steam engine, railroad, locomotive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fireboat EDWARD M. COTTER, Moored on the Buffalo River at 155 Ohio Str...
Significance: According to the National Historic Landmark nomination, Fireboat EDWARD M. COTTER has the distinction of being not only the oldest operating fireboat in the Great Lakes, but also in the United Sta... More
Central Pacific Railroad Company - Freight Engine.
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1262. LOT subdivision subject: Central Pacific Railroad Equipment and Tracks on Donner Pass Route.... More
[Close up view of front of locomotive, showing light, smoke stack and ...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Locomotive [at station] - Public domain engraving
Steel engraving copyrighted by the American Bank Note Co. No. 684. Line neg.? This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads Locomotive; Railroads Stations; Shelf.
Arrival of the first locomotive in Arizona
Stereograph showing men posing on and near a locomotive, probably in Yuma, Arizona. Written in pen on back of mount: Fort Yuma, Cal. on bluff in background. "Descriptive views of the American Continent" printed... More
N.Y.C.R.R. [New York Central Railroad] at Little Falls, Mohawk Valley,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Engines 4704 and 4051 of the L.S. and M.S. railroad]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico]
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Railroad trains in Mexico - Marquez Summit
Photoprint by W.H. Jackson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Burlington engine number 120, the first train into Broken Bow, Nebrask...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Burlington engine number 7, said to be the first passenger train into ...
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The Brighton Beach Hotel, Brooklyn, N.Y., being moved away from beach...
Hotel moved using flatcars on 20 railroad tracks, pulled by locomotives. Title derived from P&P catalog card for corresponding copy negative. Source unknown..
Train from Aleppo arriving at Homs
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Ry. /
"Taken at Fingal, Cal., where the world-renowned "Sunset Limited" trains pass each other. One runs on a side track, and the other dashes by at a high rate of speed. Switch is then turned, and the train passes o... More
Grand Trunk Depot, Durand, Mich.
Photograph shows busy train station with trains arriving from seven different directions; several passengers lingering along platform waiting to change trains; carts loaded with supplies being pulled across tra... More
[The Hemlock Limited, bound for the woods, Harbor Springs, Mich.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Detroit Photographic Co.'s Special
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
Title devised by cataloger. "780" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
East of the Jordan and Dead Sea. Railway station at Amman
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oiling up before the start - 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
This planet. Camden & Amboy Railroad 1834
G24445 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Klackner, C., copyri... More
Scenes on Uganda Railway - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Train on bridge of railway leading from Mombassa to Nairobi; insert in lower right-hand corner shows the train at Mau Summit. Color halftone repro. of photoprint, copyrighted by Phelps Publishing Co. This recor... More
PERU SCENES - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
A black and white photo of a train in the snow, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Copy. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. ... More
Hump pusher, L.S. & M.S. R. R., Elkhart, Ind.
Postcard showing train engine on the railroad tracks of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway with row of men in front. J172354 U.S. Copyright Office. On photo: "Copr. Inbody." On back: Made by J. Inbod... More
Germans helping refugees returning to Antwerp
Photograph shows German soldiers on train tracks carrying bundle for Belgian refugees in Antwerp. Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
[Railroad trains, Utah] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
B.&G. passenger leaving Bingham Canyon. Photoprint copyrighted by L. Hollard, Salt Lake City, Utah. No. 636. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card traci... More
U.S. locomotive assembled in France
Photograph shows the completion of a Baldwin locomotive at a U.S. assembling plant in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons, May 2016). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More
This picture was taken by the Rock Island, Ill. Chapter after the leve...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Central Division. Group title: Disaster relief, U.S. Gift; American National... More
Railroads. Men working on locomotive II
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Largest electric locomotive in world, 6/25
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
A black and white photo of a man standing next to a train, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information ab... More
[Man lying in front of train on tracks]
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Davenport Locomotive Machine Company, Davenport, Iowa. Attaching side ...
Public domain photograph - American industrial history, 1930s-1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Two men standing next to each other in front of a train. Great Depress...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Great Depression and...
Annotation on original negative jacket. This image in a jacket marked "Killed" To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have tit... More
Palestine disturbances 1936. Derailed engine and flat car [near Ras el...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A east bound Union Pacific railroad freight train waiting in a siding,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Railroad locomotive in grain elevator district. Minneapolis, Minnesota
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Yard brakeman oiling locomotive, Elkins, West Virginia
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Santa Fe R.R. trains going through Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mo...
Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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 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.
Locomotives in roundhouse. Durango. Colorado
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A couple of men standing next to each other in front of a train. 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
Miners about to go down into the pit. Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minnesot...
May be Mahoning-Hull-Rust Mine, also in Saint Louis County, rather than the Mahoning Mine. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Div... More
These four photographs were taken at the railroad station when a noon ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Locomotive of logging train. Baker County, Oregon. There has been a te...
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. Washing a locomotive at the coaling station at an I...
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. One of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's "400...
Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. In one of the make-up yards at a yard of the Chicag...
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 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
Chicago, Illinois. Conductor John L. Walter comparing time with his en...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Freight train used in hauling cane to...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
On arriving at the yard, the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad freight...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Needles, California. Filling the sand dome of a locomotive near the ro...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Clinton, Iowa. Women wipers of the Chicago Northwestern cleaning one o...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
San Bernardino, California. At the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railr...
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, 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.
Chicago, Illinois. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad conductor Ge...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Blue Island, Illinois. Daniel Senise at his job at an Indiana Harbor B...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Engines in the Atchison, Topeka and ...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kiowa, Kansas. Freight train pulling out on the Atchison, Topeka and S...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland. Southboun...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Train with Indians in the Background
Train is the Jupiter that carried Leland Stanford and other railway officials to Golden Spike Ceremony in 1869
A meeting of the engines at the Golden Spike National Historic Site, U...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Location where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Ra... More
A meeting of the engines at the Golden Spike National Historic Site, U...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Location where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Ra... More
A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam train pulls into the tiny Osi...
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
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
Richmond, Virginia Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad...
Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress,... More
The Engineer - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Oiling locomotive wheels with long needle-nosed oil can. J260525 U.S.. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Chicago & Northwestern Ry. Passenger Train, mammoth plate negative
"Detroit Publishing Co." Copyright deposit no. 4327. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 10206. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.