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[Train and several sets of railroad tracks in the snow, Massachusetts] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 130 favorites
- 70,454 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Night view of part of Santa Fe R.R. yard, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 158 favorites
- 69,447 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 157 favorites
- 58,064 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 115 favorites
- 57,399 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 165 favorites
- 54,955 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 97 favorites
- 46,709 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 74 favorites
- 46,097 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 45,122 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight locomotives in the roundhouse, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 119 favorites
- 44,255 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 58 favorites
- 43,998 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 27 favorites
- 43,590 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 51 favorites
- 43,262 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 62 favorites
- 42,683 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe R.R. crosses the Colorado River into California between Topock, Arizona and Beal, California (LOC)
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- 17 favorites
- 42,526 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 34 favorites
- 42,232 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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RR Train, Great Britain (LOC)
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- 13 comments
- 71 favorites
- 42,105 views
- Date taken: 1926
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. All switch lights, head lights and lamps have been shaded from above in accordance with blackout regulations. The heavy light streaks are caused by paths of locomotive headlights and the thin lines b
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- 0 comments
- 48 favorites
- 40,198 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 37 favorites
- 38,782 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 47 favorites
- 38,679 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Trucks unloading at the inbound freight house of the Illinois Central Railroad, South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 38,588 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Servicing these diesel streamliners takes five minutes (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 43 favorites
- 38,514 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR at 40th Street. On the tracks on the right are three streamliners, crack trains, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 29 favorites
- 38,354 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork bridge and main shops appear in the foreground (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 31 favorites
- 38,258 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Happy 8th Birthday, Flickr Commons ! 6 days to go (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 150 favorites
- 37,490 views
- Date uploaded: 2016-01-10
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General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 20 favorites
- 37,398 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. In the foreground are old cars used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help; Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 13 favorites
- 37,098 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 16 favorites
- 37,066 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A freight train stopping for coal and water at a siding enroute to Gallup, New Mexico, near Laguna, N.M. (LOC)
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- 24 favorites
- 36,987 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of the city and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, Amarillo, Texas. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 22 favorites
- 34,415 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 36 favorites
- 33,806 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 28 favorites
- 33,547 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 12 favorites
- 33,011 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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The giant 10 million bushel grain elevator of the Santa Fe R.R., Kansas (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 13 favorites
- 32,422 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Railroad cars loaded with sulphur, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 12 favorites
- 31,781 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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One of the cuts through the mountains, near Cajon, Calif., Cajon Pass, Calif. (LOC)
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- 19 favorites
- 29,195 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the Bensenville freight yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Penn. RR Station from Gimbel's N.Y. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Raised express track, 9th Ave. "L" (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-12-21
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Some of E.H. Harriman's greatest feats in railroad construction (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1909-08-29 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2009-06-08
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[Unloading sugar beets from railroad cars, Loveland, Colorado] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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New Haven R.R. wreck (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2009-04-27
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B&O RR wreck - Wash. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-08
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Germans helping refugees returning to Antwerp (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2011-12-16
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German troops en route to Russia (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2011-11-18
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J.P. Farrell (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-11-28
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[Train at station. Malmo, Sweden] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1915
- Date uploaded: 2016-06-24
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Wounded arriving in Allenstein, Prussia (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2011-12-09
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