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Classic Locomotives and Railways

Photographs of classic locomotives and railway stations, featuring steam engines and cargo trains, that illustrate the historical significance of rail transport in monochrome tones.

Freight train loaded with wood with townscape in background
Freight train loaded with wood with townscape in background
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'A Concrete Bridge Across The Thames At Caversham', c1930. Creator: Unknown.
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Headley's "Puffing Billy", bakgavel
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Group photo in connection with the construction of the Ängelsberg - Vansbro route. Here near Ängelsberg. SWB K1 33.
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View at station yard during winter time with locomotives and wagons in picture and station house in the background.
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Tear tracking at Bredaryd. To the right in the picture stands steam locomotive hnj locomotive 28, followed by the derailed tender and at the far left the luggage wagon HNJ f3 761 is glimpsed. The train was on its way to Halmstad. It belonged to Halmstad-Nässjö railways, HNJ, and was drawn by the steam locomotive HNJ 28 and consisted of four wagons. A luggage wagon, HNJ F3 761, a post -car hnj 19 and two passenger cars including HNJ 1011.
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Logging: Transportation: Railroads - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Photo from Råå harbor.
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The State Railways, SJ S2T 4028 at Karlshamn Södra on Middle Blekinge's railway, MBIJ.
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Miniature railroad in Zoological Park, Detroit, Mich. , Amusement rides, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Rail transport in Saxony, Große Heeresfeldbahnübung 1909, 1. Königlich Sächsisches Bataillon des Königlich Preußischen Eisenbahnregiments Nr. 1, 1910, Landkreis Meißen, Seeligstadt, Deutsche Eisenbahntruppen, Feldbahn, Station mit Zug, Germany
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A railway car model from 1918 with a 7" Navy mount, produced by American Car & Foundry Co. The car was used during World War One as part of American military activities.
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Pennsylvania, an Oil Siding, Petroleum Train, and Pumping Station, 19th century, USA
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Maintenance of the track using the distinction to the ballast stop machine on the route between Harsjön and Bälgviken 1967.
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Lars Larsson. Traffic assistant in Munkedal 1958.
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Men at Ånglok Östra Södermanland Railway, Ösij Lok 7 Helgenäs.
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Elsevier photo collection. Collision express train Eindhoven express train 's-Hertogenbosch near Woensel. cutting burners, victims burned constructed wagons. August 12, 1957. Woensel, Oord-Brabant
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Photomechanical print of the Chicago Special, Burlington Route, a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington or Q. Photographed by William Henry Jackson ( 1843-1942). Dated 1900
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Ship in Droogdok, Anonymous, 1940 - 1943 photograph Ship in a dry dock for repair. Part of the photo album about the Kriegsmarine 1940-1943. photographic support gelatin silver print navy (+ motor ships). dry-dock, floating-dock
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The Sudan Railway, Sirrug, Luxor, Assuan. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914-1915, Egypt, by Major John Rose.
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Greek railway train on the way to Saloniki, Ιωαννης Κοροαημς, Larissa , Railroad trains, Railroad employees. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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Nigger Hollow curve , Railroads, Railroad tracks
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German cargo (oil) train derailed by sabotage, USSR 1941
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The Hand of Man Made 1902 United States. This photograph taken from the back of a moving train was published in the first issue of Camera Work, in January 1903. A note on the pictures in that issue explained the image not as a contrast between man and machine, but as a link between art and the everyday ìThe Hand of Man Ö is an attempt to treat pictorially a subject which enters so much into our daily lives that we are apt to lose sight of the pictorial possibilities of the commonplace.îFor more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website The Alfred Stieglitz Collection.. Photogravure . Alfred Stieglitz
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USA, New York State, New York City, Freight train on 11th Avenue, 1909
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Steam trains with passengers at the station in Ramlösa.
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Chinese train carrying petroleum and coal to Beijing in 1964. LC-DIG-ppmsca-09193
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London & North Western Railway. LNWR lok 2798 "Marchioness of Stafford".
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Engineers pulling train engine (EV003565_H)
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Construction of a wooden expressway for the passage of trains in Florida, United States. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895
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Disruption of the railway traffic during the first week of March 1886. The North Eastern railway service from Newcastle to Edinburgh was cancelled after a train travelling from Edinburgh was snowed up at Acklington. Date: 13th March 1886
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Bridge beams submerged on trolleys.
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Freight train at the coal bridge in Mjölby. The steam locomotive is reportedly the State Railways, SJ F 1202.
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Between Moldova and NiklasbergMoldova. Between Moldova and Niklasberg
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On the track at Born's stop. To the left sitting on the bicycle dress Per Andersson, father of Långsjö-Pelle.
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Electric Locomotive emerging from the St Clair Tunnel (1890) - part of the 'Grand Trunk Railway System'. The first submarine rail tunnel connecting Sarnia, Ontario, Canada with Port Huron, Michigan, USA Completed in 1890, closed in 1994. Date: 1930s
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Pan American Division of Central Railroad, Guatemala. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection , Railroads,Guatemala,1920.
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Image of placing a freight wagon of the S.N.C.F. For the transport of truck trailers (so-called Kangourou or Hukepack transport) on the site of the Jaarbeurs (Croeselaan) in Utrecht.
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Vintage Photograph. R.R. track switch against freight cars in background.
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Breakwater, Napier, after a Storm, 1905, Napier, by Muir & Moodie.
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From the train, Switzerland , Railroad trains. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Train blocked by snow, France, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
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Night Scene, Railroad
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Trenes transportando carbón sobre la fábrica de J. Villanueva, en Tremp (Lleida). Año 1922.