Railroad Collection

Poster advertising the Orient Express, 1888. Private Collection

Simplon-Orient-Express, Londres-le Caire, c. 1930. Private Collection

First Russian steam locomotive, by Yefim and Miron Cherepanov, 1833-1834 (Postage stamp), 1978. Artist: Anonymous
First Russian steam locomotive, by Yefim and Miron Cherepanov, 1833-1834 (Postage stamp), 1978. From a private collection

Grain elevator along railroad yard, North Platte, Nebraska, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grain elevator along railroad yard. North Platte, Nebraska. [Sign: T.B. Hord Grain Co. Coal Hay and Feed. Union Pacific steam locomotive]

La Ligne Electrique du Simplon, 1928. Private Collection

BRIDGEPORT wreck, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
BRIDGEPORT wreck, between c1910 and c1915.

J.L. Wortham; Jos. Bailey, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
J.L. Wortham; Jos. Bailey, between c1910 and c1915. Shows John L. Wortham, member of the Railroad Commission of Texas and later Texas secretary of state; and Joseph Bailey, senator from Texas.

Penn. R.R. Station from Gimbel shop N.Y., between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Penn. R.R. Station from Gimbel shop N.Y., between c1910 and c1915.

Gen. Grenville Dodge, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Gen. Grenville Dodge, 1911.

H.E. Huntington, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
H.E. Huntington, 1911.

Secrataries railroad - Y.M.C.A., between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Secrataries railroad - Y.M.C.A., between c1910 and c1915.

J.J. Hill & Carl Gray, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
J.J. Hill & Carl Gray, between c1910 and c1915. Shows railroad executives James Jerome Hill and Carl Raymond Gray.

J. J. Hill & Carl Gray, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
J. J. Hill & Carl Gray, between c1910 and c1915. Shows railroad executives James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and Carl Raymond Gray (1867-1939).

Westbrook Train Wreck, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Westbrook Train Wreck, between c1910 and c1915.

Grand Central Station, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Grand Central Station, between c1910 and c1915.

William Crooks, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
William Crooks, between c1910 and c1915. Shows the William Crooks, the first locomotive in Minnesota which was built in 1861

B & O Wreck - Washington, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
B & O Wreck - Washington, between c1910 and c1915.

J.J. Hill, L.W. Hill, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
J.J. Hill, L.W. Hill, between c1910 and c1915. Shows railroad executive James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) with son Lewis W. Hill.

Engine which wrecked train on New Haven, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Engine which wrecked train on New Haven, 1913. Shows wrecked engine after a railroad accident in which the White Mountain Express crashed through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express

Steamship strike, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Steamship strike, between c1910 and c1915.

M.A. Knapp, Wm. Lee Chambers, G.W.W.Hangar, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
M.A. Knapp, Wm. Lee Chambers, G.W.W.Hangar, 1913. Shows members of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation for the settlement of disputes between railroads

L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. The Long Island Railroad "Victory Special" demonstration car, organized by the women of the Long Island Food Reserve Battalion during World War I.

B & O Women Workers, Loraine, O. [i.e. Lorain, Ohio], 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
B & O Women Workers, Loraine, O. [i.e. Lorain, Ohio], 1917. Shows women railroad workers in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shops during World War I in Lorain, Ohio

L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. The Long Island Railroad "Victory Special", organized by the women of the Long Island Food Reserve Battalion during World War I

R.R. follows British advance, 31 Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
R.R. follows British advance, 31 Oct 1918 (date created or published later). Railroad construction during World War I, described by the Imperial War Museum as "Battle of the Drocourt-Queant

British building railroad, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British building railroad, 28 Jul 1917. British soldiers laying a light railway line near Boesinghe, Belgium, July 28, 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele (the Third Battle of Ypres)

Military Hospital Car, C.P.R'Y. between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Military Hospital Car, C.P.R'Y. between c1915 and 1917. The exterior of a military hospital car on the Canadian Pacific Railway during World War I

Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. The interior of a military hospital car with nurses on the Canadian Pacific Railway during World War I

A Landsturm Duet, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
A Landsturm Duet, 1914. Men playing stringed instruments by the railroad tracks during World War I

Railway employees against the background of train cars, 1910-1919. Creator: Unknown
Railway employees against the background of train cars, 1910-1919. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

The brilliant exploit of the Noshido(?) Infantry Company destroyed rail road, going... c1919. Creator: Unknown
The brilliant exploit of the Noshido(?) Infantry Company destroyed rail road, going around the back of the ememy, c1919

Perm: Headquarters of the Ural Railway Administration, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Perm: Headquarters of the Ural Railway Administration, 1910

Segezh Station; general view, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Segezh Station; general view, 1915

Ladva Station on the Murmansk railroad; Uneveness of the railway, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Ladva Station on the Murmansk railroad; Uneveness of the railway, 1915

Railroad construction on the Shadrinsk-Sinara railroad near the city of Shadrinsk, 1912

Camping of the expeditionary army in Siberia, c1919. Creator: Unknown
Camping of the expeditionary army in Siberia, c1919

Railroad bridge over the Shuya River, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Railroad bridge over the Shuya River, 1915

Furious fighting at Amur, c1919. Creator: Unknown
Furious fighting at Amur, c1919

View of the railroad, city of Vladimir, Klyazma River, and water-meadows, 1911

Kirosskii quarry, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Kirosskii quarry, 1915

Railroad dam at the Lizhma Station, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Railroad dam at the Lizhma Station, 1915

T.V.R.R. Bridge, head of Fox Gulch, 1916. Creator: Frank G. Carpenter
T.V.R.R. Bridge, head of Fox Gulch, 1916

Irkutsk Railway bridge over the Irkut River, 1900-1904. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Railway bridge over the Irkut River, 1900-1904. National Library of Russia

Group of railroad construction participants near the town of Kem, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Group of railroad construction participants near the town of Kem, 1915. The narrow gauge railway that runs from the town of Kem to the port of Kem-Pristan

Irkutsk. Arrival of the first train, 1905. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk. Arrival of the first train, 1905. National Library of Russia

On the handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
On the handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway, 1915. Prokudin-Gorskii and others ride the Murmansk Railroad in a handcar along the shores of Lake Onega near Petrozavodsk

Side view of the railroad bridge being built across the Tobol River, Yalutorovsk, 1912

Irkutsk. Rail Station, 1900-1904. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk. Rail Station, 1900-1904. National Library of Russia

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