Locomotives

[Early steam locomotive with toothed "propelling wheel" which gripped ...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The monthly magazine. [London : Printed for R. Phillips], 1814 June 1. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bru... more

[Rear and side view of George Stephenson's steam locomotive and railro...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Reports on canals, railways, roads, and other subjects, made to "The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvement" / By William Strickland ... while ... more

Locomotive engine

Photograph shows locomotive engine on display. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852, v. 2, frontis.

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. Title from item. Publish... more

Locomotive and tender, Great Western Railway, Canada

Photograph shows the locomotive "Spitfire" and tender. Attributed to London Stereoscopic Co., based on label on the back of the stereo. No. 211.

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. LC 1391. Title from item. Published in: Pioneer Women / Linda Peavy and Ursual Smith (1998), p. 24.

Rigi Railway

Locomotive used on railroad. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 38, upper right.

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

Title from item. Printed on mount: (Miller, v. 8, p. 277).

Railroad engine at City Point, Va.

Title from item. Brady-Handy Collection.

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. No. 232. Title from item.

["Gen. Haupt" locomotive, used by Gen. Herman Haupt during the Civil W...

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

Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania--1863--Hanover Junction Railroad Statio...

People standing in front of railroad station. Photograph by Mathew B. Brady or assistant. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

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. No. 239. Title from item.

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. No. 138. Title from item.

Engine "Government" [Commodore?] down the "banks" near Brandy, April 1...

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. Title from item. Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 11... 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. Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 4... more

"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

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

Title devised by Library staff.

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. Title from item. Im... more

Locomotive [at station]

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.

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

Print shows overhead, side, and front views of steam locomotive for use on roadways. Title from item. Illus. in: Life of Richard Trevithick, with an account of his inventions / by Francis Trevithick, C.E. Illus... 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

[Composite of five railroad trains]

In album: Engravings of the American Bank Note Company arranged by Mr. A.G. Goodall, president of the company, 1874-88, p. 45.

[Composite of four railroad trains]

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

To all locomotive engineers throughout the globe, members of the broth...

F2721 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kallenback, F.J.

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

Old "31" the Pioneer engine of Arizona

Stereograph showing men posing on and near a locomotive, probably in Yuma, Arizona. Written in pen on back of mount: Yuma, Ariz., Fort Yuma, Cal. on bluff in background. "Descriptive views of the American Conti... more

The Devastation of Railroad Equipment, Cars, and Locomotives during Ra...

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

Jupiter & Lake Worth R.R.

[Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico]

Twentieth Century Limited

Tunnel 8, Temasopa [sic] Canon

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

[Exterior view of the (Imperial Military) Medical School (seacoast)] /...

Trains and tracks at the Imperial Military Medical School. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 43. No. 560. In album: Imperial military and medical schools, with student and teacher po... more

Summit near Villar, The

Aqueduct at Queretaro, The

Train in Cafetal of Temasopa [sic]

First through train from Houston, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana, up...

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

New York - the opening of the Catalever Bridge across the Niagara Rive...

Illus. in: Microfilm copy of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, v. 57 (1883-4), p. 293. Reference copy may be in LOT 4429 D. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings... more

The head guard on the South Eastern Railway, 1885--The engine is one o...

Two men on locomotive and conductor(?), with left arm stretched outward, at car in foreground, London. Probably by John Thomson, F.R.G.S.

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 Hospit...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 60 (1885 March 21), pp. 80-81.

Burlington engine number 120, the first train into Broken Bow, Nebrask...

Burlington engine number 7, said to be the first passenger train into ...

original size: 6x8

[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..

Sugar cane fields, Louisiana

Near Franklin, N.J.

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

Group of Lackawanna freight engines

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

Inspection engine, D.L. & W.

Old aqueduct at Queretaro, Mexico

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

Fire engine at World's Columbian Exposition grounds while buildings we...

Photograph shows two men operating steam powered fire engine; thick black smoke blows from steamer. No. 424. Title from item.

Seventeen mile grade near Everet's

The original "John Bull"

Locomotive of Camden & Amboy Railroad Company. 19065Y U.S. Copyright Office. Original file in PR 12 SSF - Railroads Companies Camden & Amboy 1830.

The fastest time on record

Photograph shows a train running under full steam. 60344Z U.S. Copyright Office. Photo'd by A.P. Yates, Syracuse, N.Y., May 10, 1893, when Engine 999 drawing the Empire State Express train, made the record of 1... more

Rock Island train at State Line, September 16th 1893. opening of Chero...

Photograph shows enourmous crowd gathered around and riding on locamotive. Copyright 1908 by Lee A. Perry, Caldwell, Kansas. Title from item.

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

Double tracks and tanks (N. Y. & L. B. R. R.) near Long Branch, N. J. ...

Photograph shows train moving along track; water coming from underneath train. Copyright 1894 by F. W. Blauvelt, N. Y. Title from item.

Prize locomotive 999 and the prize Wagner Palace car train

Photoprint copyrighted by A.P. Tates. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads; Ph. Ind.

Locomotive in mouth of tunnel - Manawatu Gorge

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage glass negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph colle... more

[Mexico - Railroad scenes: locomotive #124 in mouth of tunnel, Temapos...

Photo by W.H. Jackson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[A three-horsepower internal combustion engine that ran on coal gas]

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The gas and oil engine / by Dugald Clerk. New York : J. Wiley & sons, [1896]. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard... more

[Four-stroke gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine designed by N...

Pacific Express, Chicago and North Western Ry.

Pioneer locomotive C. & N.W. R.R. First locomotive to run out of Chica...

Photoprint copyrighted by C.D. Arnold. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

First train into Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8

A.Q. Scammon's Side tracked

10778 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: The pacemaker. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3657. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library o... more

[Viewing locomotive at Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: "2nd Division."

[Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway locomotive]

Railroad

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Track elevating at road crossing, Joliet, Ill.

[Chicago and Alton Railroad, engine]

[Railroad engineer oiling up before the start]

[N.Y.C. R.R. (New York Central Railroad), electric locomotive]

New railroad

Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb

Train built ca. 1829, on Baltimore & Ohio R.R. From Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce. No. 33386.

The fastest train in the world. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Empire State Ex...

Photograph shows N. Y. C. & H. R. train speeding along railroad track with black smoke billowing from smoke stack. Copyright 1900 by Geo. A. Dressel, Buffalo, N. Y. Title from item.

R.R. Station & steamer dock, Muskegon

The first engine and train in America

DeWitt Clinton train (1831) exhibited on railroad flat car to spectators. Copyright by R.Y. Young.

Borsig fireless locomotive

U.S. locomotive assembled in France

Electric locomotive, N.Y.C. R.R. [New York Central Railroad]

German Baghdad Railway, 190_. Alexandretta to the main Baghdad line; 2...

[Railroad engineer oiling up before the start]

Passenger (observation) locomotive train car of New York Central RR

Engine, locomotive, 1500 h.p., Ste. Claire [i.e. St. Clair] tunnel, Po...

[Crowd at railroad station, Sylvan Beach, New York]

Crowd standing in front of Penn. R.R. car -- the largest electric loco...

[Worker, possibly doing pipeline construction for gas company, with ca...

New Mallet articulated compound engine on the Santa Fe

[Empire State Express, Utica, N.Y.]

[Locomotive number 501 and tender, Chicago & Alton railroad]

Locomotive sheds, AEF Base, Vladivostock

The express train

Train passing under bridge. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / complied by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1944.

Five Japanese men on railroad locomotive

Photograph shows a locomotive using the Abt rack gearing system, in service on the Usui Pass segment of the Imperial Japanese Government Railways. (Source: D. Free, 2004) Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms pa... more