Old Railroad Scenes

Vintage photographs of railroad tracks and trains from the past, offering a nostalgic view of rail travel and historical stations.

At Townshend Station B & W RR , Railroad cars, Railroad tracks

At Townshend Station B & W RR , Railroad cars, Railroad tracks

At Townshend Station B & W RR , Railroad cars, Railroad tracks

Horse Shoe Curve. On the line of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. Purviances stereographs. 1870 - 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Railroad locomotives, Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark (Pa.)

Depot , Railroad stations, Railroad tracks

Susquehanna Bridge. 1870 - 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Snow, Susquehanna River, Railroad bridges , Pennsylvania

Railroad tunnel. Home views. Lancaster County views, No. 12 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Lancaster (Pa.), Railroad tunnels , Pennsylvania

Safety car. (Down Mt. Pisgah incline.) 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Mauch Chunk (Pa.)

R.R. Workman descending the track. Unknown maker, American

Steamboat "City of New York." 1873. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Connecticut, New London County (Conn.), Norwich (Conn.), Steamboats, Railroad tracks, Waterfronts

The entrance of the Shawangunk Tunnel, on the west side. View along the N.Y. & O. Midland Railroad. 1875. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Catskill Mountains (N.Y.), Ulster County (N.Y.), Railroad tunnels, Shawangunk Mountains (N.Y.)

Entering the Clouds, Mt. Washington Railway. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.)

View of a cogwheel train of the Rigibahnen, Switzerland, Anonymous, 1871 - 1890 photograph This photo is part of an album. Rigi paper albumen print rack railway Rigi

Girls watching Pennsylvania R.R. train go by. 1870 - 1879. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Carlisle (Pa.), Railroads

Lookout inclined plane. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Ohio, Cincinnati (Ohio)

Photograph on albumin paper around 1868 depicting a complete passenger train of the K.K. Priv. Lemberg-Czernowitz-Bahn, showing locomotives, carriages, and railway tracks.

Coal train bound to the front. Coal fields of Penn'a, Shamokin and vicinity. 390. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Coal mining , Pennsylvania

Jacob's ladder, Mt. Washington Railway , Mountain railroads, Trestles

Mt. Pisgah Plane, Switchback R.R. Scenery of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Mauch Chunk (Pa.), Inclined planes

Coal train bound to front , Coal, Railroad freight cars

Steam locomotive at Lyon station, Anonymous, 1855 - 1875 tissue stereograph Lyon photographic support. paper. cardboard albumen print / cutting / perforating station; shelter (railway, tramway). steam locomotive Lyon

The liner at LL DIST. Oct. 1921.

Horse Shoe Curve. Scenery of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 1870 - 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Railroad cuts, Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark (Pa.)

View over Svartön taken 1 kilometer from Luleå's first station house, which is to the right of the track in the middle of the picture.

Rail Road on to Mt. Washington. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Le Rigi Staffel , Railroads

Train wreck, Bellows Falls, Vermont. Preston William Taft (American, born 1827)

Lewistown Narrows. Pennsylvania Central R.R.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Description: On the Nigerian Railway. africa

The horse shoe , Mountains, Railroads, Cutover lands

Small town tree-lined road, probably Santa Clara, California, with people walking and one man riding horse-drawn wagon. Attributed to A.L. Hawes (American, active Calfornia 1870s)

Inclinded Plane near Highland, Pa.. A. M. Allen (American, 1823 - 1907)

Double track banking Gothenburg - Alingsås. To the left is the provisional bypass track on the lake Stor Sävelången, west of Norsesund, in 1916.

Double track building between Alingsås - Olskroken. The bridge over Säveån, test load. Freight wagon open SJ 10376. freight wagon Tank Sj.

Mount Washington Railway. Descriptive series ; White Mountain scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.), Mountain railroads

Union Mills Station, Orange & Alexandria Railroad. No. 235, Library has two photographs: No. 33 has printed title information; No. 39 is another print of the same negative without the printed title information below the image, Title for No. 33 from item. Orange, Alexandria, and Manassas Railroad, 1860-1870, Railroads, Virginia, Clifton, 1860-1870, Railroad stations, Virginia, Clifton, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation.

Niagara Suspension Bridge, U.S.; United States of America..

View near upper Axe Factory, Lewistown Branch. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Railroad tracks , Pennsylvania, Axe Factory Hollow (Pa.)

unknown, Railway line in the snow in Sweden, photograph, photo, photos, height 99 mm, width 135 mm, height 241 mm, width 330 mm, photographer, 1889 - 1889, fourth quarter 19th century, paper, cardboard, albumen print

Historical Transportation - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

The Switchback, on Wonder Rail Road. Weitfle's Views on Colorado Central R.R. from Black Hawk to Central City. 14. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado

Bridge on Orange and Alexandria Rail Road, as Repaired by Army Engineers under Colonel Herman Haupt 1865 Andrew Joseph Russell American This view by Russell documents the engine Fire Fly testing the stability of a new wooden trestle bridge built quickly by the United States Military Railroad engineers to replace a masonry bridge destroyed by the Confederates. Atop the box car trailing the engine is a pair of armed sentries; others are on the rail tracks and bridge foundation. The top-hatted figure in the foreground is unidentified, but he may be the photographer himself or a civilian railroad engineer working for General Herman Haupt, commander of the United States Military Railroad. President Abraham Lincoln was so impressed with Haupts work that on May 28, 1862, he observed: “That man Haupt has built a bridge four hundred feet long and one hundred feet high, across Potomac Creek, on which loaded trains are passing every hour, and upon my word, gentlemen, there is nothing in it but c

Steam locomotive on the line at Taberg.

Inspection of the track on the ore track. Problems with Swallow.

The locomotive and the Abraham Lincoln funeral train in Philadelphia, April 2224, 1865. The passenger cars and engine are draped with black mourning crepe (BSLOC_2019_5_80)

Sliding down Jacob's Ladder. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.)

Slopes with vineyards and billboards from the Côte Rôtie. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

US Military Railroad train stopped on the tracks of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad near Union Mills, Virginia. In 1861 this area part of the Confederate defense line that ran from Centreville to Manassas Junction. In 1862, Federal troops were stationed here to protect the Bull Run railroad bridge (BSLOC_2019_2_159)

First construction train passing the palisades, Ten Mile Cañon. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Central Pacific Railroad Company

The Lincoln Funeral Train, Philadelphia April 22-24, 1865 Charles L. Philippi American. The Lincoln Funeral Train, Philadelphia 285986

Looking down railroad tracks to tunnel through mountainside , Mountains, Railroad tracks, Railroad tunnels

The State Railways, SJ CO 1226, which is one of vehicles involved in the train accident where two locomotives collided at the station in Malmslätt.

Mt. Washington Railroad, White Mountain, N.H. 1869. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.), Mountain railroads

Aachen (Prussia). Templerbend station ..

Rail road on to Mt Washington , Mountain railroads, Mountains, Railroad tracks

Road of the Vistula River. The bridge on the Promnik river near Askarzewa; Fajans, Maksymilian (1825-1890); 1877 (1877-00-00-1877-00-00);Railway Railway, Méyet, Leopold (1850-1912) - collection, art of photography (Warsaw - exhibition - 1990), Dar (provenance), railway, locomotives, bridges, trains, rivers, testamentary record (provenance), photosensitive (Warsaw - exhibition - exhibition - 2009)

View of a train departing the station; about 1890; Gelatin silver print

Locomotora de vapor para ferrocarril Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, fabricada en Paterson, Nueva Jersey, en Estados Unidos. Años 1890. Imagen obtenida a partir de una negativo sobre placa de cristal.

Narrow gauge train connecting Dirkirch with nearby towns, with trucks from the 108th Supply Train, 33rd Division in the background. The train usually operates three times a day, and this image captures the 12:30 PM run. Taken on December 24, 1918 by Sergeant C.L. Jackson.

The State Railways, SJ T 586 have driven down the turntable at Gothenburg's locomotive station.

Description: Bank at Mile 160. Description: View of Line at mile 165. ugandarailway, africa

Rounding Cape Horn, in California, ca. 1866-69, by Alfred A. Hart. The photographer, took this photo from atop a steam engine. Here the tracks of the Central Pacific Railroad, are over 1,200 feet above the bottom of the gorge, and hugged the steeply sloped mountainside (BSLOC_2020_1_22)

th, wire cable car on the Leopoldsberg also cable car on the Kahlenberg, view over the Kuchelau to the valley station and the route, Michael Frankenstein , Comp, photographer, publisher

Sky Railroading, White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA, created by Kilburn Brothers., 1850-1930. Features include Crawford Notch, railroads, and trestles, presented in albumen prints

View of a train departing the station. Unknown

Looking down railroad tracks to tunnel through mountainside , Mountains, Railroad tracks, Railroad tunnels

Train meeting at Jämshög.

A German engine being handed over to the Americans as part of the Armistice agreements. This photograph was taken in Gievres, Loire et Cher, France. The image is labeled as #48964 and was taken on January 7, 1919. The engine transfer was part of the railroad activities during World War I.

Mt. Pisgah Plane - length 2,341 ft. - 664 ft. high.. James Zellner (American, active Pennsylvania 1870s - 1880s)

Blancard, Hippolyte (1843-D.1924), Universal Exhibition of 1889: Wagons of the West Company, rails of the Champ-de-Mars station, avenue de Suffren, 7th arrondissement, Paris (dummy title), 1889 . Platinum print. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Rail road on to Mt Washington , Mountain railroads, Trestles

Fire Control: Detection - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Looking down Mount Pisgah Plane. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

Train passes by the Sensation Rock between Kandy and Colombo, Sri Lanka, Charles T. Scowen & Co., 1876 - 1893 photograph Sri Lanka paper. cardboard albumen print railway, train. mountains Ceylon

Mt. Washington and Railway. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.)

Ascending Mt. Washington , Mountain railroads, Mountains, Rocks

Bro over Götaälv, now Marieholmsbron was built in 1908 and was taken into place March 1909. It was replaced by concrete in 1996. To the left station Gothenburg-Tingstad.

Locomotive 'Hercules.' American scenery ; New England series. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.), Railroad locomotives, Women, Men

Across Horse Shoe Bend. Views among the Alleghenies. Penna. Railroad. 61. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Allegheny Mountains, Railroad tracks , Pennsylvania, Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark (Pa.)

Södra Railway Bridge, Tranås.

Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad. David W. Butterfield (American, 1844 - 1933)

Property The Road with a Roller. The leveling of a part of the road with a roller drawn by a truck at Krueg Seumpo. Stacked photo in an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoegweg on North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takenuen between 1903-1914.

Description: A Canadian Pacific Transcontinental train. Prince of Wales' tour of Canada, 1919, a volume of photographs published by the Canadian Pacific Railway Date: 1919 canada, americas, princeofwalestour

Description: Palestine Roads - Jerusalem-Jericho Road. Location: Palestine Date: 1922 Description: Palestine Roads - Jerusalem-Jericho Road - Tyre Trouble. Location: Palestine Date: 1922

Munkedal's railway (track width 600 mm). Party of lines between the harbor at the salt source and the desorc in Västra Götaland. LOK No. 1 Motala workshop in 1895, Boggigodsvagn Litt Io and Personboggivagnägen built by trolleks AB 1895.

Mt. Washington and Railway. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.)

Vaart in the Duin, August Frederik Willem Vogt, 1895 - 1915 stereograph View of a speed, with a rowing boat and dune. Netherlands paper. photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print

Description: Mile 197. View of Mbinzau. Location: Mbinzau Description: Mile 199. View of Mbinzau. ugandarailway, africa

Midland Railroad, probably later Owego-Midland R.R; American; about 1870; Albumen silver print

This albumin paper stereo photograph by Johann Baptist Reiner, circa 1875, shows St. Michael train station in Styria, depicting the station building, tracks, and surrounding area.

The experimental track Stockholm - Järva.End part of an electric motor car with part of the electric motor installation. The roof is visible one power carriers of scissors type and glimpses part of the Outthy Side Strömmörkaren. This arrangement with both types of Ströthmaren meant that the motor car could be run on the entire test track. Some of the Motorvagnarna State Railways SJ CO5 1391 or 1393.

Ore train in Kiruna.

Log Transportation: Logging Railroad. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

THE EXTENSION OF THE NATAL RAILWAY TO CHARLESTOWN, MAJUBA HILL

Railroad connecting the Chemical Warfare Service plant at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland with the main rail line. This photo, numbered 60449, was taken in 1918 and is part of a collection documenting American military activities during World War I.

The station built in 1893 by Malmö-Tommelilla Railway, meeting. The station was built in 1893. Two -storey station house in brick. Mechanical gear

R.R. Accident on Alexandria and Orange R.R. Caused By Rebels. A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

Sisterva.

West End of Shawangunk Tunnel. New York and Oswego Midland Railroad.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

th, wire cable car to the Sophienalpe, insight into the valley station, Michael Frankenstein , Comp, photographer, publisher

Description: View of Line at Mile 164. Dense jungle. Description: View of Line at Mile 162. Dense jungle. ugandarailway, africa

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