Age of Streamliners

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

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Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the san...

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Ash Fork (vicinity), Arizona. Passing an eastbound freight train on th...

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General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Nor...

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Isleta, New Mexico. Fireman of a passing freight train on the Atchison...

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Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad y...

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Transportation. Engines. "MacArthur" engine in service on the Baltimor...

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Miami, Texas. On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Ca...

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[Diesel Locomotive No. 206, Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Railroad ...

Title: [Diesel Locomotive No. 206, Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Railroad Company]..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie, 1908-1984..Date: 1951..Place: Houston, Texas..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie photograph col... More

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of...

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Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in the...

Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right.

[Locomotive Driving Wheels in Operation, Texas & Pacific Railway Compa...

Title: [Locomotive Driving Wheels in Operation, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://digita... More

General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR ...

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[New York Central Twentieth Century Limited steam locomotive 5453]

Title: [New York Central Twentieth Century Limited steam locomotive 5453]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall ..Date: May 12, 1938 ..Place: Harmon Station, Croton-on-Hudson, New York..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richi... More

Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing ...

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Ash Fork, Arizona. A diesel freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and ...

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Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Engines in the Atchison, Topeka and ...

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[Brakeman, Freight Car T&NO 47429, Southern Pacific Railroad Company]

Title: [Brakeman, Freight Car T&NO 47429, Southern Pacific Railroad Company]..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie, 1908-1984..Date: 1951..Place: Texas..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection..Physical ... More

[Oiling Driving Wheels, Southern Pacific Railroad Company]

Title: [Oiling Driving Wheels, Southern Pacific Railroad Company]..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie, 1908-1984..Date: 1951..Place: Houston, Texas..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection..Physical De... More

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, working as a sweeper at the rou...

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World's Fair, railroad exhibit, modern locomotives. Canadian Northern ...

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Parked freight trains at the Kansas City Southern yards in Wharton Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas

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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed...

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Transportation. Engines. "MacArthur" engine in service on the Baltimor...

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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

C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill...

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[New York Central Twentieth Century Limited steam locomotive 5453]

Title: [New York Central Twentieth Century Limited steam locomotive 5453]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall ..Date: May 12, 1938..Place: Harmon Station, Croton-on-Hudson, New York..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie... More

A train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yar...

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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.

Chicago, Illinois. A worker in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad l...

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Willliams, Arizona. The engineer, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe...

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Albuquerque, New Mexico. Workmen making inspection of newly-driven riv...

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[Locomotive Driving Wheels, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

Title: [Locomotive Driving Wheels, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://digitalcollections.... More

[Broadside of Locomotive 611, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

Title: [Broadside of Locomotive 611, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://digitalcollection... More

Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards ...

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Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR.,...

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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed a...

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Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a si...

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General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard,...

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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing ...

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Conductor E.K. Hill of Amarillo, Texas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Sa...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman grinding the end of a locomo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thoreau, New Mexico. Conductor C.W. Tevis, with the Atchison, Topeka a...

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[Railway Platform and Locomotives, Terminal Building, Texas & Pacific ...

Title: [Railway Platform and Locomotives, Terminal Building, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://digi... More

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant...

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World's Fair, railroad exhibit locomotives. B & O 5600, detail II

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James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard]

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World's Fair, railroad exhibit locomotives. New York City 5453, detail...

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World's Fair, railroad exhibit, modern locomotives. N&W, detail

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General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR., Chi...

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View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, at twilight, ...

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Production. Locomotives. Framed by a huge hydraulic turbine runner, th...

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Winslow, Arizona. Fireman in the cab of a Atchison, Topeka, and Santa ...

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Sibley, Missouri. Passing one of the diesel passenger locomotives of t...

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[Locomotive 653 at Depot, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

Title: [Locomotive 653 at Depot, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://digitalcollections.sm... More

[Number Plate of Locomotive 317, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

Title: [Number Plate of Locomotive 317, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://digitalcollect... More

[Refilling the Sand Dome of Locomotive 657, Texas & Pacific Railway Co...

Title: [Refilling the Sand Dome of Locomotive 657, Texas & Pacific Railway Company] ..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://di... More

[Refilling Locomotive Sand Dome, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

Title: [Refilling Locomotive Sand Dome, Texas & Pacific Railway Company] ..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://digitalcollec... 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

S. K. F. Bearing, Train coming thru bearing

Title: S. K. F. Bearing, Train coming thru bearing . .Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall (1908-1984) ..Date: ca. 1930s..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie photographs..Physical Description: 1 film negative: blac... More

Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR, Chic...

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Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR.

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Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill.

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World's Fair, railroad exhibit locomotives. Eastern R.R. locomotive, g...

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World's Fair, railroad exhibit locomotives. New York Central, detail I...

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Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

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Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, ...

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Chicago, Illinois. In the locomotive repair shops at an Illinois Centr...

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Topeka, Kansas. Welder working on a fire box of an engine in the Atchi...

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Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad st...

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Fort Madison, Iowa. In the train control room at the Shopton shops of ...

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Key Santa Fe Railroad switching yard, La Junta, Colorado

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The Streamliner. Buttolph menus collection.

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, Calumet River Bridge, Spanni...

See also HAER IL-161 for additional documentation. Significance: The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway's two parallel vertical-lift spans over the Calumet River (of which one survives), and two neighbori... More

C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, ...

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Norfolk & Southern Steam Locomotive No. 611, Norris Yards, East of Ruf...

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Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and...

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A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR., Proviso yard, Chicago, I...

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Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification y...

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Locomotive in a railroad yard, Chicago and Northwestern RR (?), near C...

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Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Il...

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Production. Locomotives. The massive size of this locomotive boiler dw...

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Evacuees boarding a special train at Santa Anita (California) Assembly...

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Flagstaff, Arizona. Entering the town along the Atchison, Topeka, and ...

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[Unloading Single Door Freight Car 1707, Texas & Pacific Railway Compa...

Title: [Unloading Single Door Freight Car 1707, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: ca. 1946..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies ( http://digita... More

Norfolk & Southern Steam Locomotive No. 611, Norris Yards, East of Ruf...

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Norfolk & Southern Steam Locomotive No. 611, Norris Yards, East of Ruf...

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Duluth & Iron Range Railway, Mallet Locomotive, D & IR Railroad Depot...

Significance: The Mallet Locomotive, one of 18 locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, was the last steam driven locomotive used by the railroad. The D & I.R. R.R. is significant for tis association wit... More

C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Ch...

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Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

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Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, ...

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Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the whe...

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Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill...

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John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Provis...

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Chicago, Illinois. Conductor handling engineer copy of train orders be...

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McCook (vicinity), Illinois. Passing an eastbound passenger train alon...

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Acomita, New Mexico. Brakeman R.E. Capsey standing on the platform of ...

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