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Artist Larry Akers's "Beginning of an Era Gone By" on a downtown Bluefield, West Virginia, building depicts the days when Bluefield was a booming railroad town, often called the "Camelot of Appalachia"

Artist Larry Akers's "Beginning of an Era Gone By" on a downtown Bluef...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Artist Larry Akers touches up his mural depicting days in Bluefield, West Virginia, when, as Nikki Bowman wrote in "WV Living" magazine in 2012, "coal was king . . . the constant rumbling of trains whistled through the mountains, and Bluefield was booming" to the point that the largely distressed town was called the "Camelot of Appalachia"

Artist Larry Akers touches up his mural depicting days in Bluefield, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Magann's bird's eye view map of Pettis County, Missouri : showing plats of the railroad towns and sectional county map, 1872 /

Magann's bird's eye view map of Pettis County, Missouri : showing plat...

Shows names of some residents, boundary lines, and place names. Copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth back. Includes text. "A. McLean Steam, Lith." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

The 1931 Del Rio Hotel in Dolores, an old railroad town served by the Rio Grande Southern line in Montezuma County in far-southwest Colorado

The 1931 Del Rio Hotel in Dolores, an old railroad town served by the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The big hotel included a ballroom and large restaurant that served famous guests such as silent film star Clara Bow, passing through t... More

The 1893 Rio Grande Southern Hotel, a true "railroad hotel" and the first and finest hostelry in Dolores, an old railroad town served by the Rio Grande Southern line in Montezuma County in far-southwest Colorado

The 1893 Rio Grande Southern Hotel, a true "railroad hotel" and the fi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Future president Theodore Roosevelt and western writer Zane Grey slept there, as did other travelers and officials of the railroad. Th... More

The Rio Grande Southern Railroad depot, built in 1923 in Dolores, a true railroad town in Montezuma County in far-southwest Colorado

The Rio Grande Southern Railroad depot, built in 1923 in Dolores, a tr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside is a railroad museum, whose most notable and curious artifact sits on the tracks outside. It's the Galloping Goose No. 5, the f... More

Artist Larry Akers touches up his mural depicting days in Bluefield, West Virginia, when, as Nikki Bowman wrote in "WV Living" magazine in 2012, "coal was king . . . the constant rumbling of trains whistled through the mountains, and Bluefield was booming" to the point that the largely distressed town was called the "Camelot of Appalachia"

Artist Larry Akers touches up his mural depicting days in Bluefield, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Drew's new map of the state of Florida, showing the townships by the U.S. Surveys, the completed & projected railroads, the different railroad stations and growing railroad towns. The new towns on the rivers and interior, and the new counties, up to the year 1874.

Drew's new map of the state of Florida, showing the townships by the U...

Shows drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, battlefields, and submarine cables to Havana. Lists operating and newly chartered railroads. Scale 1:1,140,480. LC Railroad maps, 195 Descriptio... More

The 1896 Exon Mercantile building, now (as of 2015) an antique store, in Dolores, an old railroad town served by the Rio Grande Southern line in Montezuma County in far-southwest Colorado

The 1896 Exon Mercantile building, now (as of 2015) an antique store, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The "Galloping Goose" rail car outside the Rio Grande Southern Railroad depot, built in 1923 in Dolores, a true railroad town in Montezuma County in far-southwest Colorado

The "Galloping Goose" rail car outside the Rio Grande Southern Railroa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside is a railroad museum, whose most notable and curious artifact sits on the tracks outside. It's the Galloping Goose No. 5, the f... More