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Railroads of the United States in 1918 - Project Gutenberg eText 16960

Railroads of the United States in 1918 - Project Gutenberg eText 16960

Railroads of the United States in 1918 - Project Gutenberg eText 16960.

Granite Gate, Mt. Lowe Ry., Pasadena, Calif (NYPL b12647398-66477)

Granite Gate, Mt. Lowe Ry., Pasadena, Calif (NYPL b12647398-66477)

* Postcard series number: 7325 1903-1904. Public domain scan of the vintage Pasadena California postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Crooked Railroad. Mt. Lowe Ry. (Up Alpine), Pasadena, Calif (NYPL b12647398-66700)

The Crooked Railroad. Mt. Lowe Ry. (Up Alpine), Pasadena, Calif (NYPL ...

* Postcard series number: 7777 1903-1904. Public domain scan of the vintage Pasadena California postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

L & N Train along the Gulf Shore (on back bay), Ocean Springs, Miss (NYPL b12647398-62279)

L & N Train along the Gulf Shore (on back bay), Ocean Springs, Miss (N...

Postcard series number: 5829 1901-1902. Included occasional reprints from 1000 series.

The California Limited on the desert (NYPL b12647398-62178)

The California Limited on the desert (NYPL b12647398-62178)

* Postcard series number: 5512 1901-1902. Included occasional reprints from 1000 series.

Georgetown Loop, Clear Creek Canyon, Colo (NYPL b12647398-62264)

Georgetown Loop, Clear Creek Canyon, Colo (NYPL b12647398-62264)

Postcard series number: 5613 1901-1902. Included occasional reprints from 1000 series.

America, 19th century - Landscape, Joliet, Illinois - 1937.119 - Cleveland Museum of Art

America, 19th century - Landscape, Joliet, Illinois - 1937.119 - Cleve...

Public domain image, 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art (cropped)

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art (cropped)

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art Poster image is based on the 1872 painting, American Progress by John Gast

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art Poster image is based on the 1872 painting, American Progress by John Gast

American Progress - illustration extracted from Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist

American Progress - illustration extracted from Crofutt's Trans-Contin...

American Progress - illustration extracted from Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist

Summit Tunnel (Tunnel 2) north portal looking into Wrights

Summit Tunnel (Tunnel 2) north portal looking into Wrights

View of Wrights, California from the north portal of the Summit Tunnel. Photograph likely taken between the turn of the century and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Cats Canyon Tunnel (Tunnel 1) shortly before its closure

Cats Canyon Tunnel (Tunnel 1) shortly before its closure

The Cats Canyon Tunnel shortly before it was daylighted when the Southern Pacific Railroad converted the narrow-gauge tracks to standard gauge

B&O Railroad cornerstone

B&O Railroad cornerstone

Cornerstone of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, laid on 4 July 1828 by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. Displayed at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore... More

Firefly train

Firefly train

The steam engine "Firefly" on a trestle of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. This view by Russell documents stability testing of a new wooden trestle bridge built quickly by the United States Military Railro... More

1901 Haupt reminiscences Smeed hooks-2

1901 Haupt reminiscences Smeed hooks-2

Rails being ripped up using one of two hook types in use during Sherman's Atlanta and Savannah campaigns.

Building a Railroad

Building a Railroad

A photograph, taken outdoors, of men working on railroad tracks. There are two sets of tracks running horizontally and one set running up a hill to the distance. There is what appears to be a large chute over ... More

Redw DNaSR - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Redw DNaSR - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Steam train by Del Norte and Southern Railroad on a trestle bridge hauling redwood timber near Crescent City, California, around 1900.

American Progress (1872) by John Gast

American Progress (1872) by John Gast

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Progress (John Gast painting)

American Progress (John Gast painting)

This painting shows "Manifest Destiny" (the belief that the United States should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean). This popular scene of people moving west captured the view of Americans at the t... More

Secret Town Bridge, 1,100 feet long. 62 miles from Sacramento, by Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 (cropped)

Secret Town Bridge, 1,100 feet long. 62 miles from Sacramento, by Watk...

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Electric railway journal (1911) (14572987558)

Electric railway journal (1911) (14572987558)

Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches) Title: Electric railway journal Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Electric railroads Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co Contributing Library:... More