Railroad Car Collection (page 3)

MIGRANT WORKER, 1939. Migrant worker originally from Oregon, sitting in a railway car at Calipatria, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, February 1939

REFRIGERATOR CAR. Men loading crates of grapes onto refrigerated railroad cars to transport from Gusati, California to the East Coast. Stereograph by Philip Brigandi, 1923

A futuristic, tropical paradise colony on Enceladus, one of Saturns moons

General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yards
December 1942 - General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Illinois

January 1943 - Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The train pulls out of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Inside the locomotive repair shops at an Illinois Central Railroad yard in Chicago, 1942
November 1942 - Inside the locomotive repair shops at an Illinois Central Railroad yard in Chicago

An American engine pulling a load of supplies for Russia, 1943
An American engine pulling a great load of supplies for Russia along a mountain rimmed plateau somewhere in Iran, 1943

Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, Chicago 1943
January 1943 - Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of the hump, Chicago, Illinois

General view of part of the Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad
April/May 1943 - General view of part of the Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Illinois. In the background is the coal chute and roundhouse

Women laborers seated on front of engine at Bush Terminal railroad yard, 1918
Women laborers seated on front of engine at Bush Terminal railroad yard in New York City, circa 1918

View of a classification yard at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Proviso Yard
December 1942 - General view of a classification yard at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Proviso Yard, Chicago, Illinois

Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Illinois
December 1942 - Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops of Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Illinois

Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard
December 1942 - Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Illinois

General view of part of the Galewood yard in Chicago, Illinois, 1943
May 1943 - General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Chicago, Illinois

Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago
April 1943 - Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R. Chicago, Illinois

Railroad yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
December 1942 - One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Illinois

The Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop, Chicago, Illinois
December 1942 - The Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop, Chicago, Illinois

Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yard
April 1943 - Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yard, Chicago, Illinois

General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad yards
December 1942 - General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad yards, Chicago, Illinois

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Strikes, street railways, New York. Stopped car on 86th St
XOS746425 Strikes, street railways, New York. Stopped car on 86th St. and 6th Ave. 1916 (b/w photo) by American Photographer

NEW ORLEANS: MULE TEAM. A mule team pulling a cartload of baled cotton on the levee in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photographed c1903

UTAH: GREAT SALT LAKE, 1869. View of the Great Salt Lake from an observation car on the first trans-continental railroad in 1869. Illustration, American, c1935

TRAIN PASSENGERS, 1905. A couple reading magazines and playing solitaire in a California Tourist sleeper car on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Photograph, 1905

VERMONT: TROLLEY, c1895. Vermont tourists in a Bennington & Woodford open car, which climbed through the mountains and stopped at various attractions including a casino, an inn, a dance hall

Dining Car
circa 1910: A de luxe dining car on board a train with dining car staff in attendance. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Railway Deluxe
circa 1910: A deluxe railway carriage, with leather armchairs and an observation car for passengers. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

TURKEY: RAILROAD. Two locomotives pulling open cars on the railraod at Alexandretta (now Iskenderun), Turkey en route to the main Baghdad Railway. Photograph, 1900-1910

IRAQ: BAGHDAD RAILWAY. Construction camp along the Baghdad railway, funded and engineered by Germany. Photographed between 1900-1910

GOSPEL CAR, c1910. A crowd in a train shed at a railroad station, probably in or near New York City, listening to a sermon being delivered from a gospel car

WORLD WAR I: ARMISTICE. Meeting of the German armistice delgates with Marshal Foch in the Marshals railroad car. Allied representatives are Marshal Foch, Admiral Wemyss, General Weygand

WORLD WAR I: SENEGALESE. Senegalese troops at the railroad station at San Stefano, Alexandria, Egypt. The crescent train in the background is arriving with wounded troops from Flanders

WORLD WAR I: GERMAN TROOPS. German and Austrian troops traveling by train during World War I. Photograph, 1914-1918

WORLD WAR I: SHARPSHOOTERS. Belgian sharpshooters firing at the enemy from an armored railroad car during World War I. Photograph, 1914-1918

IMMIGRANT COACH CAR, 1881. On an Immigrant Train, Westward Bound. Wood engraving, American, 1881

TRAIN TRAVEL, 1883. Westward Bound - Scenes on an Immigrant Train. Engraving and drawing by W.A. Rogers from sketches by Theodore R. Davis, 1883

SAILING CAR, 1830. A wind-powered locomotive on the South Carolina Railroad, 19 March 1830. Contemporary American wood engraving

PULLMAN CAR, 1869. The Pullman Sleeper Car of the Union Pacific Railway. Wood engraving, English, 1869

DRAWING-ROOM CAR, 1869. A drawing-room car of the Union Pacific Railroad. Wood engraving, English, 1869

RAILWAY CARRIAGE, 1858. The summer railway carriage for the Viceroy of Egypt. Wood engraving, English, 1858

RAILROAD: SALOON & KITCHEN. A smoking saloon and a kitchen on the Great Northern Railway in England. Engraving, English, 1879

RAILROAD: PASSENGER CAR. The Experiment. The first railway passenger coach built in 1825. Engraving, American, 1881

RAILROAD: CHINESE WORKERS. Chinese section hands of the Union Pacific Railroad at the station at Promontory, Utah. Photograph by J.B. Silvis, late 19th century

RAILWAY CAR, 1913. A Benzene motor coach, 1913

PHOTOGRAPHY RAILROAD CAR. The photography car which followed the Pacific Railroad s
PHOTOGRAPHY RAILROAD CAR. The photography car which followed the Pacific Railroads mile-a-day construcion of the the rails, recording the progress. Photograph, c1868, near Point of Rocks, Wyoming

Canadian Railway
1859: Passengers board carriages of the Canadian Great Western Railway at Clifton Depot, Niagara. (Photo by William England/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

CHARLES LANG FREER (1854-1919). American railroad-car manufacturer and art collector. Photograph by Edward Steichen, c1916

WW I: RED CROSS RAILROAD. Sanitary railroad car operated by the American Red Cross, 1917

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