← Transportation

Historic Steam Locomotives

Vintage illustrations of early steam locomotives, showcasing intricate designs and engineering from the 1800s, including famous models like the Rocket.

George Stephenson's Patent for Locomotive Engine
George Stephenson's Patent for Locomotive Engine
144 assets in this story
6145-59346899
Gouden Koets, 1898 cabinet photograph cardboard four-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle, e.g.: cab, carriage, coach
6188-55550510
Cladding of wooden pieces on a flatbed truck, vintage engraving. Cladding of wooden pieces on a flatbed truck, vintage engraved illustration. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10647970
4220-20398129
An array of horse-drawn carriages popular in the Diamond Jubilee year of 1897, displayed in an advertisement by Maythorn & Son of Biggleswade. Date: June 26th 1897
1746-28979166
The Janney automatic coupler for railway cars. From The Railways of America. John Murray, London, 1890.
6176-67063363
Plan of Lungley's Unsinkable Ship, 1861. Diagram showing the engine room and coal store. 'A A are the parts in which, if the bottom of the vessel is torn out, the water will take the place of ballast, the ship being as safe as before... The Briton is...the first vessel built on the newly patented principle of Mr. Charles Lungley, of Deptford, for the construction of unsinkable and incombustible ships...The great advantage which is obtained by the invention is the localisation of injury and facility of remedy, wherever injury may be inflicted. The principle is simply to divide each deck from th
6176-66094581
Stanley Steam Car Model 62 with Rumble Seat. Promotional Advertising for Stanley Motor Carriage Company, 1911
4430-4728
transport/transportation trucks B»ssing 1908 of the Bavarian Army drawing by Weiskam Germany 20th century,
1746-29999822
Illustration showing various items of rolling stock, 1888.
7220-71227883
CY116 Retired Train 1935 Trans Siberian Railroad Museum Ulan Batar Mongolia
6145-46705298
Vehicle tractor.
4220-20422533
A Citroen caterpillar half-track vehicle which crossed the Sahara desert, travelling 3200km in 22 days between Touggourt, Algeria and Timbucktu in Mali (between 17th December 1922 to 7th January 1923). On display at the Army Museum - Hotel des Invalides, Paris, France. Date: circa 1925
1746-19668758
Camille Jenatzy's (1868-1913) aluminium battery-driven electric car 'La Jamais Contente', 1899.
1746-28997501
Engraving depicting a water cart for replenish the boiler of a steam engine used in mechanical ploughing. Dated 19th Century
1746-111337330
Illustration depicting the locomotive "The Best Friend of Charlestown" which pulled a short train out of Charleston on Christmas Day 1830. Dated 19th century
6145-53189120
Model of experimental car, scale 1:10.
4408-5938
Heary Two-Horse Grain Delivery Wagon, Cars - 1915
1525-28216825
Wooden carriage, illustration, vector on white background.
6176-66081914
A torpedo boat prepared for attack. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1893
6145-53099093
Bergskokkärra
4443-73217832
Amsterdam, Wit, JH de, Netherlands, Spyker, Brothers, The Golden Coach. Tribute of the Amsterdam People, The Golden Coach, 1898, verso - stamped, presented as a tribute by the people of Amsterdam to Queen Wilhelmina on her accession to the throne in September 1898. The coach was designed and built in the factory of the brothers Hendrik-Jan and Jacobus Spijker (Firma Spyker)., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 373 mm, width 475 mm, Work conception, based on a design by, 1898 - 1898, paper, papier, collotype, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch, publisher
1746-28992431
Walter Hancock: the Autopsy steam bus. In 1833, Hancock introduced the Autopsy, which ran for a short time between Finsbury Square in the City and Bentonville in north London. It ran again in October 183
4220-21892551
Rolling stock : a double- decker third class carriage on the Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian Railway. Date: 1860
1899-53514002
Kangaroo wheel around 1884, England / Känguruh Rad um 1884, England, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
6145-29278901
Ship-building: anchor of a ship of the line. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
1848-54701414
Velocipede or draisine, historical wood engraving, circa 1888
1746-30002090
Engraving depicting locomotives used in the Simplon Tunnel. Top: compressed air locomotive for use in the tunnel workings. Bottom: Steam locomotive without a firebox used on external workings.
1746-29970652
An engraving depicting a small petrol-driven lawnmower. Dated 20th century
1848-50673786
Museum of Carriages, Chaises and Carts at Hellenstein Castle, Fruchtkasten, Heidenheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
4408-9720
New York Central, Hudson Type, Railroad
1746-29011638
Engraved cartoon titled 'The Great Engine Match'. Dated 19th century
1746-111357177
Illustration depicting a signal gantry at Cannon Street, London. Dated 19th century
6145-53208578
Compagnie des railways from Paris to Lyon and the Mediterranean, PLM Ellok.
1746-28992428
Alpha steam wagon, English 1832
6176-66097361
This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows the first steam railroad in America - the United States. The image is from a painting in the possession of the Connecticut Historical Society (in the 1870s), and it represents the first railway train in America on its trial trip (1831), in which sixteen persons took part, who were then thought not a little courageous. Here we see that the carriages were regular stage coaches. This illustration proves that the Americans set out with the same style of carriages; but North America, as compared with the Old World, is par excellence the country of rapi
6145-52348436
Losh & Stephenson's carriage, 1815. Illustrations. 1830. Rare Book Division. Steam-engines
6145-53116681
Drawing SJ steam locomotive Littera B.
6176-66081893
Water velocipede, invented by Georg Pinkert. German inventor of the 19th century, Germany. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894
1525-22451533
Medieval cannon on wheels at the Torture House courtyard in Gdansk, Poland
6145-53186819
Track width and rail increase meter type 61.
6176-66084027
Desktop electric train to transport food to the table. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887
4408-9709
Reading Four-Wheel Caboose, Railroad
4128-18680535
Velox spring frame safety bicycle, 19th century illustration
1746-29011621
Diagram of the Westinghouse brake used on railway carriages. Dated 20th century
6145-46795371
Image of a head wall of the factory new luggage vehicle D 6094 (series D 6061-6100), intended for the N.S., at Werkspoor in Zuilen.