Historical Railways

Vintage photographs of trains and railway construction in scenic settings, highlighting early transportation history.

Bridge construction somewhere in Gothenburg.

Zahnradbahn St. Andreasberg West-St. Andreasberg Stadt, Abt rack system, 1914, Germany, Andreasberg, Zahnradbahn St. Andreasberg im Harz

Co -wheel track line on the Salève, Anonymous, 1895 - 1910 photomechanical print This photomechanical print is part of a cover. Salave, Montpubllisher: Zurich (City) paper. cardboard collotype funicular railway. mountains Salève, Mont

Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania. View of railroad station and boxcars | Library of Congress

Bridge over Utterån on the line between Mellansel and Trehörningsjö. The State Railway Building, SJB 3 Ä 507 'BORE', SADELNSKLOK.

Warsaw. `Train along the Warsaw-Vienna railway line`. Beyer, Karol (1818-1877), photographer

Relocation Central Massachusetts Railroad, viaduct, from the northeast, Clinton, Mass., Jul. 1, 1903 , waterworks, railroads infrastructure, viaducts, construction completed

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Loekan Pakem and Baoengan. Scoutcar passes undamaged bridge. July 29, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

FERROCARRILES. ESPAÑA. MINAS DE SOMORROSTRO ( BILBAO ). PLANO INCLINADO Nº 1 DEL MONTE CADEGAL , AÑO 1882. GRABADO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

Ferrocarril de cremallera.

Mountain locomotive, carriage 1st, 2nd and 3rd class and 3rd class carriage for 87 people; State railways on Java. A mountain locomotive with three carriages, standing on the track outside a station. Part of a group of 62 photos in a box with the inscription "State Railways on Java" from 1888.

Railway in the hilly landscape near the sea in Frans-Indochina, 1902 photograph This photo is part of an album. Vietnam cardboard. baryta paper gelatin silver print railway, train. gulf, bay Vietnam

Voltooide Brug Over de Wenih Rongka, 1903 - 1913 photograph The completed bridge over the Wenih Rongka. On the bridge Dutch and cars with horses. Sticked photo in an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg on North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914. Noord-sumatra photographic support Gajoweg

View from the railway bridge

Hong Kong. Food cable car (peak tram) with station. View uphill

Raton Tunnel, Highest Point on Santa Fe, Raton, N.M. still image. Postcards. 1908 - 1909. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Santa Fe (N.M.), Railroad tunnels

Rail tube with rails on the KiroVlijn, Mospo Sostawitol, 1930 - 1935 photograph Part of photo album with recordings of the Moscow Metro. Moscow photographic support gelatin silver print underground railway, 'métro'. underground station. underground road, tunnel Moscow

The embankment is built on Faringe-Gimo railway.

Relocation Central Massachusetts Railroad, viaduct, from the northeast, Clinton, Mass., Jul. 1, 1903 , waterworks, railroads infrastructure, viaducts, construction completed

On the Lackawanna near Scranton, Pa. | Library of Congress

Photograph of The Yunnan-Haiphong railway an 855 km (531 mi) railway built by France during 1904-1910, connecting Haiphong, Vietnam with Kunming, Yunnan province, China.

The railway line at Hallstahammar.

LOCOMOTORA SOBRE PLACA GIRATORIA EN LA LINEA CORDOBA-MALAGA - 1867. Author: JOSE SPREAFICO ANTONIONI (1833-1880) FOTOGRAFO. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

The border tunnel at Storlien.

Description: Bentain deviation old line below on right Jan: 1914. Location: Borneo Date: January 1914 asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens

Face in the valley of the Tjimandiri; State railways on Java. View of the railroad through Tjimandiri valley. Part of a group of 62 photos in a box with the inscription "State Railways on Java" from 1888.

Blasted railway mail at Plunow.

American canyon, train on the Pacific railroad

Test load of railway bridge over the Bröttjärna Bäcken at KM 48+800.

Metropolitan line at Finchley Road london, transport, tube, londonunderground, forties

A German locomotive surrendered to the Americans under the Armistice terms during World War One. It is currently being used by the American Services of Supply in Grievres and the surrounding areas. Photograph taken on March 27, 1919, by an A.E.F. Enlg. photographer.

Faced with the unsurpassable Khone mountain range that separated the lower from the middle Mekong, the French initiated in 1893 the construction of a 160-m bridge and a 7-km railway track to transfer launches between the two stretches of river. This improved exponentially trade and transport between Laos and Cambodia.

Årstabron with passenger trains, State Railways, SJ DU2 432.

Canfranc (Huesca) 7/18/1928. Inauguration of the Somport station. In the image, the Spanish part.

Chicopee River, looking upstream at Indian Leap Bridge, drainage area - 686 square miles, flow - 6450 cubic feet per second - 9.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ludlow, Mass., 4:40 PM, Apr. 18, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, bridges built works

Crossing of Three Trunk Lines, Richmond, Va. still image. Postcards. 1908 - 1909. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Richmond (Va.), Railroads , Virginia, Railroad cars, Railroad bridges , Virginia

The small -lane belt railway, Publication of the industrial, forestry and montan railway society

Engraving depicting an overhead monorail system between Barmen and Elberfeld-Vohwinkel. This section of the line passes along the river Wupper. Dated 20th century

United States of America, Cool, Wouter, Mountain railway through the valley of the Skaget river Seattle, Mountain railway in the valley of the Skagit River, Washington state, United States, recto - written in pen, photograph, photo, photos, MOUNTAIN JOURNEY THROUGH THE VALLEY, OF THE SKAGET RIVER SEATTLE, height 152 mm, width 227 mm, height 315 mm, width 285 mm, 1877-04-02 - 1947-01-30, photographer, 1936 - 1936, second quarter 20th century, paper, papier, photographic paper, fotopapier, cardboard, kaart, gelatin silver print, developing gelatin silver print

Line 3, Gambetta station, to Courcelles. January 17, 1905. Photograph by Charles Maindron (1861-1940). Paris, Carnavalet museum. 123094-2

Incline Railway, Mount Beacon, New York State, USA. 1903

Accident at Huddinge, in the picture, the State Railways, SJ CC 735 appear.

1877 - In its eagerness to push toward Utah in its race with the westward building Union Pacific, Central Pacific Railroad bridged many of the High Sierra chasms with timber trestles. This remarkable photo was taken at Secrettown Trestle, 62 miles from Sacramento on the western slope of the Sierras in 1877.

Cover track with Kahlenberg, Vienna XIX, Verlag Andreas Rauschan, producer

Illustration depicting the trial run of the Metropolitan Line: train passing Portland Road Station. Dated 19th century

CARRYING SUGAR CANE ON THE PIONEER PLANTATION, MACKAY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, 1883

Hampden Railroad at Three Rivers-Belchertown Road, showing shrinkage of fills, Three Rivers, Palmer, Mass., Feb. 25, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, engineering, railroad bridges

Festival of Britain - Transport Pavilion - base of the Skylon visible in the background, behind the Fairway Fountains. The locomtive is an IGR Steam Locomotive, produced in Britain for the IGR Railway in Japan (Iwate Ginga Railway) - a fine example of British transpiort exports at the time of the exhibition. Date: 1951

Gothenburg viaduct at Örgrytevägen.

Mexico, remains of dynamite car

The Isthmus of Corinth , Canals, Ships. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

The railroad station at Lathrop, California, 1878. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

The viaduct at ÖrGrytevägen

Railway line by train by house and mountain slope.

Kirunavaara.

Road Scene on the way to Lake Kanieri, Hokitika, New Zealand, 1904, Hokitika, by Muir & Moodie.

The Orange Express train departing from Cape Town, heading to Durban.

Inclined Plane, Cincinnati, Ohio still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Inclined planes , Ohio , Cincinnati

Engraving depicting railway lines near Kisogawa, Japan, after the 1891 earthquake. Dated 19th century

Unknown architect, large -scale roads near Wroclaw. Construction of the Scheitniger lock (without date): View. Photo on cardboard, 23.4 x 30.3 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Großschiffahrtsweg, Breslau. Oberschleuse

View on railway tunnel and railway line between Gravesfors and Duvedal.

Hetzdorfer Viadukt, Bahnhof Hetzdorf (Flöhatal), Railway coaches of Germany, 1912, Landkreis Mittelsachsen, Hetzdorf (Flöhatal), Viadukt

Washington Cut, Washington, Mass , Railroads. Messenger Collection

Atlantic and Great Western Railway. James F. Ryder, photographer (American, 1826 - 1904) 1860-1865 A view of railway tracks running alongside a river. (Recto, mount) lower center, printed in gold ink: "J.F. Ryder, Photographist, Cleveland, O. / Atlantic & Great Western Railway. (Verso, mount) upper right, in pencil, "67"; Lower left, in pencil: "4901";

Årstabron with passenger train.

The California Limited on the desert. still image. Postcards. 1900 - 1902. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Railroads, California, Deserts - Sahara, Railroads , Arizona

View of the Utrecht-Arnhem railway track at the Jeremiebrug stop in Utrecht, from the southeast. On the far left a part of the station building. In the middle the open swing bridge in the Vaartsche Rijn and the level crossing house on the Westerkade.

Baarn, - the train leaves. Recto, M.B.

Zanzibar was the first country in East Africa to introduce the steam locomotive. Sultan Bargash bin Said had a seven mile railway constructed from his palace at Stone Town to Chukwani in 1879. Initially the two Pullman cars were hauled by mules but in 1881 the Sultan ordered an 0-4-0 tank locomotive from the English locomotive builders Bagnall. The railway saw service until the Sultan died in 1888 when the track and locomotive were scrapped. Fifteen years later (In 1905) the American Company Arnold Cheyney built a seven mile line from Zanzibar Town to the village of Bububu. It was notorious for its ability to set fire to property and the surrounding country side but it ran for twenty-five years until closed in 1930. The Bububu Railway plied six or seven times a day to Zanzibar Town. The service was extremely popular and largely used by the native population. Today much of the old track bed has been built on however train enthusiasts can still see the remains of the railways bridges an

The By-Pass, Mt. Tom Railway, Mass. Postcard. ca. 1905-1939, The By-Pass, Mt. Tom Railway, Mass. Postcard

Railway at Duinenberg.Photo 2 on album Sheet 20 from album "Amsterdam 1890-1894".

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Railway accident Poerwakarta. Saturday evening, August 21, 1948 at approximately 10.20 pm, a freight train has been placed by sabotage of a gang in the vicinity of the railway bridge of meaning on the route between Bandoeng and Poerwakarta. The two locomotives, a passenger car and a boiler truck collapsed in an approximately 15 meter deep ravine. Five people were killed and seven injured, including the operator and two stokers. The accident that happened about five kilometers for Poerwakarta is due to the fact that the rails had broken up over great distance. An overview of the great havoc. August 22, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Steam locomotives of the Czech Republic, Rail tunnels in the Czech Republic, Mikulov v Krušných horách (train station), 1905, Ústí nad Labem Region, Niklasberg, Tunnelausfahrt mit Eisenbahn

Railway bridge and industrial area in Ljungaverk.

Viadukt Lützeltal, Unidentified steam locomotives of Germany, Passenger trains in Germany, 1915, Landkreis Mittelsachsen, Frankenberg, Bahnviadukt im Lützeltal

Scene on the Southern Nigeria (extension) highway; Plate - laying on the Northern Nigeria railray.. Photographs. 1911. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Africa, Nigeria , Description and travel, Railroads construction & maintenance, Palms, Railroad tracks, Laborers

Gotthardbahn: Station Biasca. Adolphe Braun & Cie (French, founded 1876, dissolved 1889)

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