Locomotives | PICRYL collections

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[Early steam locomotive with toothed "propelling wheel" which gripped a ribbed rail while other wheels rode on a smooth rail, and two coal cars]

[Rear and side view of George Stephenson's steam locomotive and railroad cars of the Stockton and Darlington Railway]

Locomotive engine

Photograph shows locomotive engine on display.

Engine, J.H. Devereux, Alexandria

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.

Locomotive and tender, Great Western Railway, Canada

Photograph shows the locomotive "Spitfire" and tender.

First locomotive to cross Allegheny Mountains

Photograph shows a group of passengers, including a woman, sitting and standing at the front of a Sandusky locomotive.

Railroad engine at City Point, Va.

Engine "Fred Leach? (i.e.) The General

Engine "Gen. Haupt," Alexandria, 1863

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.

Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania--1863--Hanover Junction Railroad Station (detail of locomotive and crowd)

People standing in front of railroad station.

["Gen. Haupt" locomotive, used by Gen. Herman Haupt during the Civil War (1861-1865)]

Photograph shows the "Gen. Haupt" locomotive and five men posed inside the car and outside near the railroad tracks.

Engine "E.M. Stanton," Alexandria, July 1864

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.

Engine house at City Point, VA., September 1, 1864

Photograph shows railroad tracks leading to the engine house at City Point on the City Point and Army railroad.

Engine "Government" [Commodore?] down the "banks" near Brandy, April 1864

Photograph shows a train off the track laying on its side near Brandy Station, Virginia.

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.

Scene at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the Capitol grounds at Washington on the daily adjournment of Congress

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.

"Does not such a meeting make amends?" / FB.

Print shows an allegory of linking of Trans-Continental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah; Indians and buffalo fleeing in the foreground as two trains with large hands extending from the locomotives, labeled ... more

Locomotive [at station]

[Close up view of front of locomotive, showing light, smoke stack and bell]

Petites constructions. Locomotive et tender / Imagerie d'Épinal.

Print showing cutout designs for a steam locomotive and coal car with figures for the engineer and coal tender. Also shows the completed design for the small-scale construction paper cutout.

Trevithick's first passenger-carrying common road locomotive, Camborne, 1801

Print shows overhead, side, and front views of steam locomotive for use on roadways.

The "best friend," the first locomotive built in the United States for actual service on a railroad

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.

[Composite of four railroad trains]

[Composite of five railroad trains]

To all locomotive engineers throughout the globe, members of the brotherhood

At Dock Street wharf / Schell & Hogan ; JL[?] sc.

Print shows congestion of horse-drawn carts and wagons overburdened with merchanise on Dock Street, also handcarts, teamsters and longshoremen, and railroad locomotives and cars for hauling goods from ships to ... more

The Devastation of Railroad Equipment, Cars, and Locomotives during Railroad Riots

Arrival of the first locomotive in Arizona

Stereograph showing men posing on and near a locomotive, probably in Yuma, Arizona.

Old "31" the Pioneer engine of Arizona

Stereograph showing men posing on and near a locomotive, probably in Yuma, Arizona.

Train in Cafetal of Temasopa [sic]

Twentieth Century Limited

[Exterior view of the (Imperial Military) Medical School (seacoast)] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

Trains and tracks at the Imperial Military Medical School.

Tracey [sic], Minn., engine of the South Dakota division

Aqueduct at Queretaro, The

[Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico]

Jupiter & Lake Worth R.R.

Summit near Villar, The

[Engines 4704 and 4051 of the L.S. and M.S. railroad]

Tunnel 8, Temasopa [sic] Canon

First through train from Houston, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana, upon the opening of Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad

Photograph shows crowd gathered around train running through the center of town.

New York - the opening of the Catalever Bridge across the Niagara River, December 20th - the test trains, consisting of twenty-two locomotives and twenty-two loaded gravel-cars crossing the bridge

The head guard on the South Eastern Railway, 1885--The engine is one of Richard Christopher Mansell's "Gunboat" 0-4-4 tanks, built for Greenwich, Woolrich and Blackheath local services

Two men on locomotive and conductor(?), with left arm stretched outward, at car in foreground, London.

Mr. Hill tries it on / Gillam.

Illustration shows the Governor of New York, David B. Hill, riding backwards on the Democratic donkey labeled "Democracy" running on railroad tracks near a sign that states "Look Out for the Enlightening Expres... more

New York City--Flower-show, in aid of the German and Orthopedic Hospitals, given at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Eighth Street, March 9th-14th / Mazzanovich. Texas--The great railway strike on the Wabash and Southwestern system - The "crew" of a freight train abandoning their locomotive at the command of strikers.

Burlington engine number 120, the first train into Broken Bow, Nebraska,

Burlington engine number 7, said to be the first passenger train into Broken Bow, Nebraska,

[The Brighton Beach Hotel, Brooklyn, N.Y., being moved away from beach front]

Hotel moved using flatcars on 20 railroad tracks, pulled by locomotives.

Below Hunlocks [i.e. Hunlock], Pa.

Near Franklin, N.J.

Group of Lackawanna freight engines

Sugar cane fields, Louisiana

Floridia. Southern R.R., Punta Gorda, Florida

Inspection engine, D.L. & W.

Fire engine at World's Columbian Exposition grounds while buildings were under construction

Photograph shows two men operating steam powered fire engine; thick black smoke blows from steamer.

Tunnel "7", Temasopa [i.e. Tamasopo] Canon, Mexico

Old aqueduct at Queretaro, Mexico

Seventeen mile grade near Everet's

The original "John Bull"

Locomotive of Camden & Amboy Railroad Company.

The fastest time on record

Photograph shows a train running under full steam.

They can't hold up this train! / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows President Cleveland as a railroad engineer driving a locomotive labeled "Administration R.R." that is roaring out of a tunnel labeled "Business Depression Tunnel", and knocking out of the way legisl... more

Rock Island train at State Line, September 16th 1893. opening of Cherokee Strip, Caldwell, Kansas.

Photograph shows enourmous crowd gathered around and riding on locamotive.

Double tracks and tanks (N. Y. & L. B. R. R.) near Long Branch, N. J. engine scooping water; train running 25 miles an hour.

Photograph shows train moving along track; water coming from underneath train.