C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill...
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Engine, J.H. Devereux, Alexandria (Andrew J. Russel)
Photograph shows the ornately decorated locomotive J.H. Devereux, of the United States Military Railroad with two crew members on board outside the roundhouse at the Alexandria station. Published in: Civil War... More
["General Haupt" locomotive, used by General Herman Haupt during the C...
Photograph shows the "Gen. Haupt" locomotive and five men posed inside the car and outside near the railroad tracks.
"General Haupt" locomotive, used by General Herman Haupt during the Ci...
Photograph shows the "Gen. Haupt" locomotive and five men posed inside the car and outside near the railroad tracks. Title from Prints and Photographs accessions record. Letter relating the history of the locom... More
Engine "General Haupt," Alexandria, 1863 (Andrew J. Russel)
Photograph shows wood burning locomotive "Gen. Haupt" named for Herman Haupt, chief of Construction and Transportation, in front of the roundhouse at the Alexandria station. No. 232.
Engine "E.M. Stanton," Alexandria, July 1864 (Andrew J. Russel)
Photograph shows the locomotive "E.M. Stanton," built in 1862 and named for the secretary of war, on a turntable at the Alexandria railroad station. No. 239.
Engine W. H. Whiton, and President's car, Alexandria, January,1865
Photograph shows a United States Military Railroad locomotive, W.H. Whiton, and the president's rail car, later used as Lincoln's funeral car. Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 116 historic print... More
Scene at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the Capitol grounds at Wa...
Illustration showing a crowd of people crossing the street between a railroad locomotive and a street railroad, with the U.S. Capitol in the background. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 487 (1866 April 2... More
The "best friend," the first locomotive built in the United States for...
Illustration showing people on first excursion trip of the South Carolina Railroad, 15th January 1831; it was built at the West Point Foundery Shops in New York City. Illus. in: The history of the first locomot... More
Tracey sic, Minn., engine of the South Dakota division
"65" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04541. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Jupiter & Lake Worth R.R. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
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Locomotive Jupiter & Lake Worth R.R., Public domain image
Title in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898): The J. & L.W. R.R. at Jupiter. "W.H.J. & Co." and "104" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 03675. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Head... More
Tracey [sic], Minn., engine of the South Dakota division
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[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..
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.
Sugar cane fields, Louisiana - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...
Possibly published as a single plate and as a right section of a two-part panorama. "Detroit Photographic Co." and "06077-2-R" on negative. Listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as "Sugar Cane Fields at... More
Sugar cane fields, Louisiana - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...
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Group of Lackawanna freight engines
Date and locale based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011617. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Near Franklin, N.J. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
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Near Franklin, N.J - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012023. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Group of Lackawanna freight engines
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Below Hunlocks [i.e. Hunlock], Pennsylvania
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Seventeen mile grade near Everet's, mammoth plate negative
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Seventeen mile grade near Everet's, mammoth plate negative
"W.H. Jackson & Co., Denver.", "01722" and "38" on negative. Commissioned by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01722. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Engine, locomotive, 1500 h.p., Ste. Claire i.e. St. Clair tunnel, Port...
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071418. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
R.R. Station & steamer dock, Muskegon
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
New railroad, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
[Empire State Express, Utica, N.Y.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
R.R. Station & steamer dock, Muskegon
"179" on negative. Ship at pier in background. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 2200. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Engine, locomotive, 1500 h.p., Ste. Claire [i.e. St. Clair] tunnel, Po...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Empire State Express, Utica, N.Y.
Title from jacket. "H 212" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039279. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Track elevating at road crossing, Joliet, Ill.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Catskill Mountain railway station, Haines Corners, Catskill Mountains,...
Title from Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). Also available as photographic print in LOT 9164 with copy negative LC-USZ62-56324 (b&w film copy neg.) "Dup" and "387-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing ... More
Finished engine at 20th Street round-house, ready for shipment, Baldwi...
70664 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7093. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A forest of stacks - in the yards of the great Homestead Steel Works, ...
H102353 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13141. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The General, Union Station, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
General view of wreck, I.C.R.R., Farmer City, Ill., Oct. 5, '09
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Train - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Title from jacket. Photograph of a painting signed "William Harnden Foster, 1916." Detroit Publishing Co. no. X1796. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
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
The Victory Loan flyers--Watch for the airplane special / K. Watkins '...
Poster showing airplanes flying over a speeding train. No. 20.C.
Smithsonian Institution interiors. John Bull steam engine in the Smith...
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. X
Image has caption 1825 to 1850, and consists of several smaller images including, from upper right, clockwise: an unidentified rowhouse, a print of the National Hotel, City Hall, a print of an early steam locom... More
Railroads. Railroad crossing in Takoma Park
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Smithsonian Institution interiors. John Bull steam engine in the Smith...
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Railroads. Railroad crossing in Takoma Park
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Railroad at Landon, Maryland. Steam locomotive
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. X
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Railroads. Locomotive, Washington State region
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Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight...
12002-5. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Santa Fe R.R. freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Cor...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one o...
Photograph probably shows Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers. Compare to USW36-639. 12002-13. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs i... More
Cleaning an engine near the roundhouse, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., Bensen...
12002-14. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More
Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park stocky...
12002-2. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR ...
Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More
Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR i.e. ...
Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More
A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hum...
12002-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Prov... More
C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one o...
Photograph probably shows Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers. Compare to USW36-639.
Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broke...
Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More
Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stoc...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stoc...
12002-2. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at ...
12002-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & N...
12002-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hum...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Thomas Madrigal greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse, Rock Island R...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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.
C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad]; locomotives in th...
12002-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR...
12002-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train, railroad, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park stocky...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the de...
12002-7. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Santa Fe R.R. freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Cor...
12002-3. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Cleaning an engine near the roundhouse, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., Bensen...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & N...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW...
Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More
Locomotive in a railroad yard, Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Wes...
12002-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More
Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR, Chic...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Thomas Madrigal greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse, Rock Island R...
12002-12. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... 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.
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. 12002-13. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http... More
Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR.,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a battle, city walls, siege, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR i...
Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More
Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...
Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More
Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago ...
Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More
Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the de...
Public domain photograph of diesel engine, train locomotive, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broke...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street s...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...
Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More
City Point, Virginia "General J.C. Robinson" and other locomotives of ...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June-1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More
City Point, Virginia Another locomotive at the same point
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More
Virginia. Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D... More
Nashville, Tenn. Railroad yard and depot with locomotives; the Capitol...
Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Hood before Nashville. Continuing his policy of the offensive at any cost, Gen. John B. Hood brought his reduced army before the defenses of Nashville... 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