254 photos
- tagged with railroad [×]
-
Santa Fe R.R. train stopping for coal and water, Laguna, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 18 favorites
- 34,090 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34733, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, train, santafe, railroad, coal, water, newmexico, laguna, 19433, atsf, southwest, desert, jack, delano, jackdelano, cibolacounty, clouds, smoke
- Visibility: public
-
C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 8 favorites
- 33,847 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34684, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroadworker, railroad, worldwarii, worldwar2, wwii, ww2, wartime, homefront, wareffort, rail, yard, provisoyard, chicagoil, chicago, illinois, april, april1943, 1943, jack, delano, jackdelano, cookcounty
- Visibility: public
-
Daniel Senise throwing a switch while at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad yard (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 61 favorites
- 33,846 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34696, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, jackdelano, 1943, february1943, february, danielsenise, switchman, throwing, swith, indianaharborbeltline, railroads, railroad, signal, train, bull
- Visibility: public
-
Freeport Sulphur Co., 60 foot high vat of sulphur, Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 14 favorites
- 33,759 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a35437, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, sulphur, texas, machinery, crane, rail, element, hoskinsmound, yellow, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency, johnvachon, vachon, chemicalprocessing, s, freeportsulphurco, railroad, loading, steampower, mining, industry, steamcrane, steamshovel, railwaytracks, quarry, transport, brazoriacounty
- Visibility: public
-
View of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 21 favorites
- 33,754 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34631, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, track, tracks, train, boxcar, railyard, smoke, sky, industrial, trainstation, steam, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, locomotives
- Visibility: public
-
Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 13 favorites
- 33,726 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34643, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, freight, firehose, railroad, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, geo:lat=41899810, geo:long=87910087, geotagged, humpyard, provisoyard, chicagoandnorthwesternrailway
- Visibility: public
-
Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 28 favorites
- 33,547 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34783, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, chicago, railroad, newyorkcentral, historicalphoto, history, trains, illinois, chicagoillinois, midwest, old, vintage, buildings, cookcounty
- Visibility: public
-
Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 22 favorites
- 33,509 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34656, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, railroadtracks, railroad, railway, deserted, transportation
- Visibility: public
-
Santa Fe R.R. west bound freight stopping for water, Melrose, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 35 favorites
- 33,430 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34737, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, train, caboose, tankcars, boxcars, santaferailroad, railroad, freight, newmexico, 1943, delano, jackdelano, atsf, currycounty
- Visibility: public
-
Daniel Anastazia, blacksmith's helper at the roundhouse of the Rock Island R.R., Blue Island, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 43 favorites
- 33,388 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34792, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, gloves, blacksmithing, danielanastazia, blacksmith, rockislandrailroad, blueisland, illinois, 1943, 1940s, jackdelano, portrait, chicagorockislandandpacificrailwaycompany, railroad, work, tool, cookcounty
- Visibility: public
-
Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signalwith a "fusee"- used at twilight and dawn - when visibility is poor. This signal means "go ahead." Calumet City, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 29 favorites
- 33,353 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34693, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, fusee, railroad, signal, light, january1943, january, 1943, calumetcity, calumetcityil, illinois, jackdelano, goahead, switchman, cookcounty
- Visibility: public
-
Mojave Desert country, crossed by Santa Fe R.R., Cadiz, Calif. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 28 favorites
- 33,333 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34763, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, cadiz, mojavedesert, desert, mojave, geography, california, landscape, railroad, santaferailroad, traintracks, sanbernardinocounty, horizon, geographile, desertlandscape, desertscene, flatdesert
- Visibility: public
-
Loading box cars with sulphur, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 10 favorites
- 33,209 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a35435, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, sulphur, hoskinsmound, texas, element, railroad, rail, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency, johnvachon, train, vachon, chemicalprocessing, loading, s, freeportsulphurco, hopper, boxcar, consumingtheyellowcorpse, brazoriacounty, clinchfield, crr, cp, canadianpacific, traincar, rollingstock
- Visibility: public
-
Freight cars at the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 30 favorites
- 33,199 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34790, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, freightcars, railroad, illinois, chicago, night, skyscrapers, buildings, south, waterstreet, terminal, illinoiscentral, boxcar, southwaterstreet, illinoiscentralrailroad, 1943, 1940s, jackdelano, train, cookcounty
- Visibility: public
-
Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 13 favorites
- 33,016 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34610, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, cnw, chicago, 1942, 1940s, train, railroad, rust, jack, delano, jackdelano, chicagoandnorthwesternrailway
- Visibility: public
-
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, at twilight, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 21 favorites
- 33,013 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34688, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, sunset, steamlocomotive, chicagoil, chicago, illinois, jackdelano, 1942, december1942, december, twilight, historicalphoto, history, train, smoke, vintage, cookcounty, film, analogic, railroad, locomotive, travel
- Visibility: public
-
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 12 favorites
- 33,011 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34647, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, yard, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, snow, snowyboxcars, railyard, trains, rail, cold, steam, tracks, smog, polution, smoke, burlingtonnorthern
- Visibility: public
-
Santa Fe R.R. near Melrose, New Mexico (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 31 favorites
- 32,725 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34739, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, smoke, santaferr, 1943, march, atsf, tracks, railroad, railway, jack, delano, jackdelano, trainsmoke
- Visibility: public
-
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 28 favorites
- 32,422 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34628, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, yard, 1942, december, switch, switches, points, sidings, marshallingyard, railway, wagons, railcars, sleepers, jack, delano, jackdelano, chicago, railroadtracks
- Visibility: public
-
The giant 10 million bushel grain elevator of the Santa Fe R.R., Kansas (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 13 favorites
- 32,422 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34712, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, grainelevator, trains, freights, snow, rails, silo, traintracks, tracks, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1943, kansascity, kansas, wyandottecounty, greatnorthern, railyard, boxcar, santaferailroad, sheeler, industry, grainsilos, railroad, transportation, factory
- Visibility: public
-
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 26 favorites
- 32,323 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34636, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroadyard, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, railcar, train, railroad, tracks, ww2, steam
- Visibility: public
-
The regular tracks of the South Yards, at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 12 favorites
- 31,977 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34646, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, train, smoke, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, trainyards, railroad, landscape, transparency, officeofwarinformation, freight, traun, industry, industrial, travel, commerce, trainyard
- Visibility: public
-
Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 10 favorites
- 31,926 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34612, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, cnw, train, railroad, chicago, 1942, 1940s, jack, delano, jackdelano
- Visibility: public
-
Sulphur vat 60 feet high, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 35 favorites
- 31,923 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a35433, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, sulphur, hoskinsmound, texas, element, railroad, rail, wall, yellow, freight, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency, johnvachon, vachon, chemicalprocessing, loading, s, freeportsulphurco, tracks, railroadtracks, mellowyellow, brazoriacounty, víarota
- Visibility: public
-
Santa Fe R.R. yards, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 55 favorites
- 31,910 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34713, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, night, light, 1943, march, yard, railroad, bridge, jack, delano, jackdelano, hazy
- Visibility: public
-
Railroad cars loaded with sulphur, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 12 favorites
- 31,781 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a35436, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, sulphur, element, railroad, texas, hoskinsmound, trains, development, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency, johnvachon, mining, vachon, chemicalprocessing, loading, s, freeportsulphurco, hopper, boxcar, brazoriacounty
- Visibility: public
-
General view of part of the rip tracks at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 19 favorites
- 31,745 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34658, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, yard, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, railroadyard, railroad, trainyard, boxcars, photo
- Visibility: public
-
Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 11 favorites
- 31,414 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34644, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, train, 1942, december, snow, chicago, jack, delano, jackdelano, cars, car, boxcar, tracks, film, railroad, waves, sand, sky
- Visibility: public
-
Switch lights in Santa Fe R.R. yards, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackout regulations all such lights are hooded. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 14 favorites
- 31,106 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34705, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, night, lights, switch, hood, hooded, santa, fe, santafe, railroad, dark, jack, delano, jackdelano, losangeles
- Visibility: public
-
C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., general view of part of the yard, Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 6 favorites
- 31,098 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34811, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, cmstpprr, bensenville, ill, 1943, may, yard, railroad, cars, greenstreet, chicagonorthwestern
- Visibility: public
-
General view of one of the departure yards at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 4 comments
- 13 favorites
- 31,079 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34664, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, y, fork, switch, tracks, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, cnw, proviso, yard, railroad, east5, geo:lat=41896527, geo:long=87914781, geotagged
- Visibility: public
-
Flagman standing behind his train to flag oncoming trains at a small siding between Laguna, N[ew] Mex[ico] and Gallup, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Sant Fe R.R., Santa Fe trip (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 20 favorites
- 31,030 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34743, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, clouds, tracks, atsf, railroad, railway, jack, delano, jackdelano, newmexico, southwest, rails, color, desert
- Visibility: public
-
C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., general view of part of the yard, Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 3 comments
- 13 favorites
- 31,002 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34810, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, rail, train, delano, color, 1943, fsa, bensenville, illinois, jackdelano, vagones, vagón, milw, historicalphoto, history, vintage, mass, production, transportation, prairie, polution, pollution, dupagecounty
- Visibility: public
-
Section crew at work on the track, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 7 favorites
- 30,908 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34813, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, 1943, april, crew, cmstpprr, bensenville, ill, railroad, delanojackphotographer1914, sectioncrewatworkonthetrack, sectioncrew
- Visibility: public
-
Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard. This is said to be the largest covered freight house in the world. C&NWRR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 13 favorites
- 30,836 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34666, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, tracks, freight, yard, long, depth, repitition, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, geo:lat=41896815, geo:long=8790719, geotagged, provisoyard, chicagoandnorthwesternrailway, freighthouse, train, railroad, boxcar, doors
- Visibility: public
-
Repair tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern R.R. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 34 favorites
- 30,684 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34689, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, chicagoil, chicago, illinois, jackdelano, 1942, december1942, december, longexposure, lightpainting, bridge, cookcounty, traintracks, ushistory, chicagohistory
- Visibility: public
-
Santa Fe R.R. line leaving Cadiz, Calif. This town is a junction point with a branch going to Phoenix, Ariz. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 26 favorites
- 30,381 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34755, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, mountains, railroad, tracks, perspective, horizon, santafe, cadiz, california, phoenix, 1943, sanbernardinocounty, jackdelano, desert
- Visibility: public
-
A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 17 favorites
- 29,873 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34622, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, yard, 1942, december, jack, delano, jackdelano, chicago
- Visibility: public
-
Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 21 favorites
- 29,796 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34665, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, chicagonorthwestern, railroad, cnw, caboose, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, red
- Visibility: public
-
Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 7 favorites
- 29,784 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a35439, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, sulphur, element, texas, hoskinsmound, yellow, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency, johnvachon, vachon, chemicalprocessing, s, freeportsulphurco, railroad, loading, historicalphoto, history, 1943, brazoriacounty
- Visibility: public
-
After the ore is weighed in the "Hewlett" [i.e. "Hulett"] machine it is dropped in the waiting hopper cars below; Pennsylvania R.R. iron ore docks, Cleveland, Ohio (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 3 comments
- 23 favorites
- 29,745 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34826, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, hulett, cleveland, freight, train, industry, load, sand, grain, railroad, shipping, pennsylvania, steel, trainyard
- Visibility: public
-
Santa Fe R.R. line going to Albuquerque, New Mexico, past the Isleta Indian reservation, Isleta, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 23 favorites
- 29,493 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34740, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, santaferr, albuquerque, newmexico, atsf, atchisontopekasantafe, railroad, railway, tracks, southwest, jack, delano, jackdelano, bernalillocounty, arid, isleta, isletapueblo, pueblo, bosque, riogrande, sandiamountain, traintracks, train, landscape, sky, bluesky, clouds
- Visibility: public
-
One of the cuts through the mountains, near Cajon, Calif., Cajon Pass, Calif. (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 19 favorites
- 29,195 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34759, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, train, tracks, smoke, railroad, telephonepoll, cajonpass, cajon, california, history, historicalphoto, mountains, trains, sanbernardinocounty
- Visibility: public
-
Track repair work at the Bensenville yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad, Bensenville, Ill. Track repair and work on the cinder pits at the roundhouse (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 8 favorites
- 29,093 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34812, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, cmstpprr, bensenville, ill, 1943, may, train, track, railroad, arielphotograph, trainyard, traintracks, trackrepairwork, bensenvilleyard
- Visibility: public
-
In the Santa Fe R.R. yards, Belen, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 6 favorites
- 29,075 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34727, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, santaferr, railroad, yard, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1943, newmexicantransport, clouds
- Visibility: public
-
60 foot high sulphur vat, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 3 comments
- 18 favorites
- 29,043 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a35432, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, sulphur, texas, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency, yellow, blue, bluesky, johnvachon, vachon, chemicalprocessing, railroad, loading, s, freeportsulphurco, yellowtemple
- Visibility: public
-
At the Santa Fe R.R. tie plant, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. The ties made of pine and fir, are seasoned for eight months. The steaming black ties in the center have just come from the retort where they have been impregnated with creosote for eight hours.
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 13 favorites
- 28,892 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34734, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, albuquerque, delano, ties, tie, pine, fir, creosote, retort, tieplant, railroadties, nm, newmexico, jack, jackdelano, bernalillocounty
- Visibility: public
-
C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 25 favorites
- 28,868 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34805, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, train, locomotive, women, worker, jackdelano, railroad, iowa, clintoncounty
- Visibility: public
-
A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 4 comments
- 11 favorites
- 28,775 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34729, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, long, depth, traintracks, rails, smokestack, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1943, industrial, train, tracks, warehouse
- Visibility: public
-
General view of part of the South Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R (LOC)
- Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 10 favorites
- 28,616 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34779, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, train, skyscraper, railroad, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1943, chicago, caboose, chesapeakeandohiorailroad
- Visibility: public