Railway and Port Operations

Historically significant images of cranes and railway operations highlighting transportation and construction at train stations and ports.

Beersheba District. Drilling for water. 1934, Israel, Beersheba
Beersheba District. Drilling for water. 1934, Israel, Beersheba
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Turkmenian Fabrique-Factory School Students at work, Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)
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The Great Well at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, powered by a donkey in a wheel! All donkeys that work the wheel have names which begin with the letter 'J' - this fine fellow is Jacob. circa 1908
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Railway workshop in the field, assembly benzene motor 29.5.1918 in a benzollocomotive of the Oberurtler engine factory for runways track width 600 mm. This pictures bear the note "Reservation" and were not provided for a publication due to their information content
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The engine room on board the Great Eastern ship, for laying the transatlantic telegraphic cable, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1375, Volume LIV, July 2, 1869.
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Fishing With Pole Tools, in a Well 1,500 feet deep. Oil City, Pa.. Frank Robbins (American, born 1846)
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Orient No. 1, one of the largest coal mines in the world. Franklin County, Illinois 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Salinas, California. Demonstration of combined guayule harvester and chopper at the Intercontinental Rubber Producers 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Salinas, California , Monterey County
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Side view of cornice stone at Milford Quarry, construction of the McKim Building , Granite quarrying, Public libraries, Cornices, Boston Public Library
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Tjisomang railway bridge under construction, Anonymous, 1932 photograph The Tjisomang railway bridge in Preacher under construction in 1932. The three pillars were delivered in 1931 by Machinefabriek Braat. Part of the Batomap with photos of bridges built by the N.V. Machinefabriek Braat in Surabaya and intended for various places in the Dutch East Indies, from the period 1931-1940. Preanger photographic support gelatin silver print Java. Dutch East Indies, The
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Engraving depicting a steam excavator of the English navvy type (with a large ladle to remove earth from work face) in use on the Manchester Ship Canal. Dated 19th century
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Excavation of cable tombs on the line between Stockholm - Gothenburg, the western main line. The State Railways, SJ Ban Work Fordon 6669.
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Historical: Logging. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Advertising for the Fire Insurance New York Underwriters Agency with a photo of extinguishing a fire, De Witt C. Wheeler, 1905 United States of Americaprinter: New York (city) photographic support collotype New York (city)
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Logs & Log Decks - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Right side of generating plant at Enfield office, Enfield, Mass., Nov. 16, 1939 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, generators
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Drilling truck operating; Source drilling in the garden. In 1959/1960, in the garden on the side of the Jan Luijkenstraat Boringen took place for the air conditioning water supply.
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Field weather station Sniartyn.
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Image of placing a boiler in the engine room of the pumping station (Rading 60) in Nieuw-Loosdrecht (municipality of Loosdrecht).
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Addison D. Moore, icehouse, Greenwich, Mass., Feb. 7, 1933 : Parcel no. 309-24, Addison D. and Frances M. Moore , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, icehouses, slat conveyors, pumping stations
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Last dock on the line between Helgum and Långsele.
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Barn with Large Barrel on Wagon.
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Wood Preservation - Pressure Treatment. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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The Drums of War-- The Empties Serve A Hundred Purposes. This image depicts empty oil drums being used to practical advantage in this asphalt plant on a far Pacific island base.
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Contract No. 85, Manufacture and Delivery of Precast Concrete Steel Cylinder Pipe, Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, Natick, Weston, showing canvas covers and caps on 12 ft. 6 in. pipe sections for cold weather protection, Southborough, Mass., Oct. 27, 1939
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Christened Leviathan, thereafter always known as SS Great Eastern, showing the drums, just before launch with many shipbuilders pulling a large lever. Date: November 1857
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Transportation/ Shipping of Lumber Products. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Contract No. 85, Manufacture and Delivery of Precast Concrete Steel Cylinder Pipe, Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, Natick, Weston, base rings and gantry crane, Lock Joint, Natick, Mass., May 29, 1939
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Contract No. 85, Manufacture and Delivery of Precast Concrete Steel Cylinder Pipe, Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, Natick, Weston, view of a Lock Joint trailer holding two 11 ft. 6 in. cages, Natick, Mass., Nov. 10, 1939
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Work team at the construction of the bridge over the Öre River in 1917.
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Electrolysis, 48-inch pipe pitted by electrolysis, removed from Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, electrolysis
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Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing Operation Pluto, an operation by British engineers to lay oil pipes on the sea bed across the English Channel; a photograph of one of the enormous devices used to lay the pipeline.
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Nydqvist & Holm, Trollhättan.
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The limestone quarry in Oaxen.
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A reaper-binder farm implement. Houseknecht & Brothers
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Anefo photo collection. Destruction Days 1940. Destroyed bridge. 1940
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Railroad construction worker straightening track; pile of twisted rails in background. 1862-63
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Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, cleaning 24-inch main, Chelsea Creek, East Boston, Mass., Oct. 7, 1914 , waterworks, equipment for engineering and building trades
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Light image, photography of rising power management post, Tomelilla, March 1914.
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Docker on the quay of New Orleans USA, George François Mugnier, c. 1880 - c. 1888.
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Company's "Tempering" Office. From the album: Views of the Westport Colliery Co., Westport, 1880, Westport, by Henry Lock.
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Reinforcing and Forms Placed for Spillway. 1900 - 1960. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Image of the dredging work during the renovation of the swimming pool of the N.V. Utrechtsche Open Swimming and Bath Development on the Kromme Rijn ("Swimming pool Timp", Vossegatsedijk 81) in Utrecht.n.b. The name of this part of the Vossegatsedijk was changed to Vossegatselaan in 1930.
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The flap bridge at Norsholm over the Göta Canal. Sample load and preparatory inspection of the bridge flap.
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Frövi - Ludvika Railways, flj staff outside the workshop in Kopparberg 1899.
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Woodworking, 1910, Worker in a sawmill in China, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Four workers riding on a large casing section of pipe suspended from cable as it is moved into position during construction (1933-42) of the Grand Coulee Dam, Washington.