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LL/27040
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Locomotive "Vermont" at a crossing 
n.d. 
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: Feb 21, 2008, 51, part 1 / lot 10) 
  

  
LL/27041
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Locomotive "Vermont" at a crossing (detail) 
n.d. 
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: Feb 21, 2008, 51, part 1 / lot 10) 
  

  
LL/36185
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
The Tioga, a Steam Locomotive on a Trestle Bridge, with Niagara Falls in the Background 
1848 
Daguerreotype, stereo 
National Museum of American History 
National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection, Image No. AFS 148 
  

  
LL/40497
ThumbnailLouis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut 
Promenade in Malines 
1854-1856 
Salted paper print from glass plate negative 
16.6 x 21.4 cm (6 9/16 x 8 7/16 ins) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.372.23 
  

  
LL/32473
ThumbnailC.R. Savage 
Dale Creek Iron Viaduct, Promontory, Utah 
1869 
Albumen print 
23 x 28.4 cm 
Bassenge Photography Auctions 
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4270) 
  

  
LL/45387
ThumbnailWilliam Henry Jackson 
Dale Creek Bridge, Union Pacific RR 
1870 (ca) 
Albumen print 
Museum of Photographic Arts 
Gift of Cam and Wanda Garner, Accession Number: 2001.019.003 
  

  
LL/45675
ThumbnailEmilio Biel 
Viaducto de Cabeda [Portugal] 
[Caminho de Ferro do Douro] 
1890 (ca) 
Photographic print (uncertain type) 
Private collection of Manuel Magalhaes 

  
LL/45677
ThumbnailEmilio Biel 
Viaducto do Corgo [Portugal] 
[Caminho de Ferro do Douro] 
1890 (ca) 
Photographic print (uncertain type) 
Private collection of Manuel Magalhaes 

  
LL/38994
ThumbnailWilliam Notman 
Mountain Creek Bridge, Containing 1,500,000 Feet of Timber, on the Canadian Pacific Railway 
1884-1889 (ca) 
Albumen silver print 
18.5 x 22.4 cm 
National Gallery of Canada 
Purchased 1981, no. 23965.2 
  
10 
  
LL/46720
ThumbnailA.J. Russell 
Trestle at Promontory 
[Photographs taken during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad] 
1864-1869 
Albumen print 
28.2 x 35.5 cm 
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 
Call Number: ZZc10 864un, Image ID Number: 1078152 
  
11 
  
LL/46676
ThumbnailCharles Burlingame Waite 
"Raymond Special" on the Metlac Bridge 
1897 (ca) 
Gelatin silver print 
19.5 x 24.1 cm 
Getty Research Instititute 
Accession no: gri_mexico_96_r_143_77 
  
12 
  
LL/20931
ThumbnailA.J. Russell 
The locomotive "Senator" approaching a railroad tunnel, Alexandria, VA 
1863 (ca) 
Albumen print 
5 3/4 x 8 in 
Lee Gallery 
13 
  
LL/11695
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
1496. Eastern Bound Train leaving Oakland Point (Detail) 
[Central Pacific Railroad] 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Jefferson Stereoptics 
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. May 23rd & Thurs. May 25th, 2006, # 06-2, Lot 65) 
  
14 
  
LL/11702
ThumbnailCarleton E. Watkins 
235. J Street, Sacramento City, from the Levee (Detail) 
[Central Pacific Railroad] 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Jefferson Stereoptics 
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. May 23rd & Thurs. May 25th, 2006, # 06-2, Lot 116) 
  
15 
  
LL/11786
ThumbnailKilburn Brothers 
No. 653. Wood Train, Mt. Washington Railway (Detail) 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Jefferson Stereoptics 
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. May 23rd & Thurs. May 25th, 2006, # 06-2, Lot 393) 
  
16 
  
LL/45177
ThumbnailDominique Roman (French, 1824-1911) 
[Model of a P.L.M. Locomotive] 
1855 (ca) 
Paper negative 
12 3/10 x 18 9/10 ins 
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.892 
  
17 
  
LL/47478
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer (British) 
Sharp, Stewart, & Co., Limited, Atlas Works, Manchester [British Locomotive #1] 
n.d. 
Carte de visite 
Private collection of Laddy Kite 
18 
  
LL/47479
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer (British) 
Sharp, Stewart, & Co., Limited, Atlas Works, Manchester [British Locomotive 32] 
n.d. 
Carte de visite 
Private collection of Laddy Kite 
19 
  
LL/47457
ThumbnailC.R. Savage 
Rock Cut, near Aspen 
n.d. 
Carte de visite 
Private collection of Laddy Kite 
20 
  
LL/47458
ThumbnailSavage & Ottinger 
Locomotive and track or line crew 
n.d. 
Carte de visite 
Private collection of Laddy Kite 
21 
  
LL/45953
ThumbnailArthur Koppel 
Sugar Factory, Soekodono [Zuckerfabrik Saekodono Loemadjang] 
1880 (ca) 
Albumen print 
19.5 x 27.4 cm (7.6 x 10.7 ins) 
Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books 
Stock Number: 62762 
  
22 
  
LL/46492
ThumbnailUnidentifed photographer 
Baldwin Locomotive Works 
1881 
Albumen print, tipped in 
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology 
Identifier : rr025003, Call Number : TJ625.B2 B363 ESL 
  
23 
  
LL/7633
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at Altoona Repair Facility 
1868 (ca) 
Albumen print 
27.3 x 43.2 cm (10 3/4 x 17 in) 
American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution 
Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment 
  
24 
  
LL/45395
ThumbnailJames Mudd 
Madras Railway Engine 
1865 (ca) 
Uncertain print type 
Museum of Photographic Arts 
Gift of Stephen White, Accession Number: 2000.005.004 
  
25 
  
LL/45398
ThumbnailJames Mudd 
Dutch States Railway, Beyer Peacock Manufacturing, Manchester 
1872 
Albumen print 
Museum of Photographic Arts 
Gift of Stephen White, Accession Number: 2003.035.002 
  
26 
  
LL/38205
ThumbnailJ.F. Standiford (publisher) 
The great strike and how they did it in Parsons, Kansas. 
1886 
Albumen print 
10.6 x 20 cm (image) 13.4 x 21.6 cm (mount) 
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Call Number: WA Photos 159, Image ID Number: 1051538 
  
27 
  
LL/46524
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
[Locomotive on bridge over streetcar] 
1904 (ca) 
Photographic print 
Cornell University Library 
Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Identifier: 1260.57.37.01 
  
28 
  
LL/32614
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
Railway construction in Chile (Construction ferroviaire) 
1900 (ca) 
Albumen print 
19.5 x 24 cm 
Vintage-Photos 
29 
  
LL/31410
ThumbnailCarleton E. Watkins 
Spooner Summit, Douglas County, Nevada 
1877 
Albumen silver print 
15 7/8 x 20 3/4 in (40.3 x 52.7 cm) 
J. Paul Getty Museum 
© J. Paul Getty Trust 
  
30 
  
LL/45076
ThumbnailJohnston & Hoffmann 
Agony Point at the Darjeeling railway near Tindharia 
1885 (ca) 
Albumen print 
Photoinstitut Bonartes 
© Photoinstitut Bonartes 
  
31 
  
LL/17142
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Integrated group of railroad porters and conductors 
1920 (ca) 
Real photo postcard 
Michael Maslan Vintage Posters, Photographs, Postcards & Ephemera 
32 
  
LL/7364
ThumbnailAlfred Hart 
Rounding Cape Horn 
1866-1869 
Albumen print, stereograph 
J. Paul Getty Museum 
The J. Paul Getty Trust (84.XC.873.4616) 
  
33 
  
LL/48300
ThumbnailGeorge R. Lawrence 
A camera designed by George R. Lawrence (1868-1938) and used to photograph a train of the Chicago & Alton railroad on the Chicago-St. Louis line for the 1900 Paris Exhibition 
1900 (ca) 
Gelatin silver print 
Creative Commons - Wikipedia 
34 
  
LL/1741
ThumbnailAlfred Stieglitz 
In the New York Central Yards 
[Camera Work, 20, pl. 3] 
1905 
Photogravure 
19.4 x 15.8 cm (8 x 6 ) 
Galerie Johannes Faber 
35 
  
LL/45187
ThumbnailA.H. Blake 
The Evening Train, Cannon Street 
1908 (ca) 
Carbon print 
National Media Museum 
Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/16422 
  
36 
  
LL/2444
ThumbnailTodd Webb 
[New York] 
1948 
Gelatin silver print 
8.25 x 6.4 
Andrew Smith Gallery 
37 
  
LL/23882
ThumbnailHorace Bristol 
Brakeman Jumping from Boxcar 
1937 (taken, later print) 
Gelatin silver print 
14 x 11 in 
OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art 
38 
  
LL/1669
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Jack Delano 
1943 (ca) 
Gelatin silver print 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 
LC-USZ62-120966 
  
39 
  
LL/47012
ThumbnailRobert Yarnall Ritchie 
[New York Central Twentieth Century Limited steam locomotive 5453, negative 1823-16] 
1938, 12 May 
Gelatin silver print 
DeGolyer Library 
SMU - Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph, Call Number : Ag1982.0234 
  
40 
  
LL/47015
ThumbnailRobert Yarnall Ritchie 
[Train coming through bearing, S. K. F. Bearing] 
1930s (ca) 
Gelatin silver print 
DeGolyer Library 
SMU - Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph, Call Number : Ag1982.0234 
  
41 
  
LL/37275
ThumbnailWilly Ronis 
Locomotive 
1938 
Gelatin silver print 
29 x 24 cm 
Pierre Bergé & Associés 
Courtesy of Pierre Bergé & Associés (Auction, June 16, 2010, Lot: 734) 
  
42 
  
LL/43829
ThumbnailWilliam Henry Jackson 
Marshall Pass, west 
1882-1897 (ca) 
Lantern slide, glass 
8.3 x 10 cm 
DeGolyer Library 
Lantern slides of Mexico, California and Colorado, File: ag1984_0301_1083_opt.jpg 
  
43 
  
LL/37104
ThumbnailFrancis Benjamin Johnston 
Locomotive on the Mesabi Range in northeast Minnesota 
1903 (taken) 1964 (print) 
Photographic print 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-98923 (b&w film copy neg.) 
  
44 
  
LL/44874
ThumbnailToni Schneiders 
Lokrõder Typ SGBr18 
1955 
Gelatin silver print 
25,1 x 35,7 cm (image) 
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions 
Auction, Photography, 9 December 2011, Sale: 307, Lot: 1665 
  
45 
  
LL/46777
ThumbnailPeter Keetman 
Lokomotive 
[Lokomotiven/43] 
1958 
Gelatin silver print 
9 1/8 x 12 ins 
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs 
46 
  
LL/44873
ThumbnailToni Schneiders 
Schienenspinne (Altona) 
1950, August 
Gelatin silver print 
22,4 x 30,4 cm (image) 
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions 
Auction, Photography, 9 December 2011, Sale: 307, Lot: 1664 
  
47 
  
LL/47997
ThumbnailToni Schneiders 
Train in landscape 
1950
Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped 
18 x 24 cm 
Bassenge Photography Auctions 
Courtesy of Bassenge, 19th-21st Century Photography, 6 June 2012, Lot: 4301 
  
48 
  
LL/22593
ThumbnailErnest Kassowitz 
Locomotive roundhouse, Vienna 
1932 (ca) 
Gelatin silver print 
6.25 x 9 in 
University of Washington Libraries - Digital Collections 
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections (PH Coll 215 / MPH512) 
  
49 
  
LL/45766
ThumbnailArkadii Shaikhet 
Express Train 
1940 
Gelatin silver print 
Museum Ludwig / Agfa Photo-Historama 
Daniela Mrazkova Collection 
  
50 
  
LL/43827
ThumbnailRobert Yarnall Ritchie 
[Hudson locomotive for the New York Central] 
1938 
Gelatin silver print 
16 x 24 cm 
DeGolyer Library 
Robert Yarnall Richie photographs, File: ag1982_0234_1823_opt.jpg 
  
51 
  
LL/47020
ThumbnailRobert Yarnall Ritchie 
Train of Tomorrow 
1947 
Colour film transparency 
DeGolyer Library 
SMU - Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph, Call Number : Ag1982.0234 
  
52 
  
LL/26158
ThumbnailO. Winston Link 
Train 202 slows as it passes the General Store and Post Office, Nella, North Carolina 
1955 
 
Danziger Projects 
53 
  
LL/11694
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
1496. Eastern Bound Train leaving Oakland Point 
[Central Pacific Railroad] 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Jefferson Stereoptics 
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. May 23rd & Thurs. May 25th, 2006, # 06-2, Lot 65) 
  
54 
  
LL/11182
ThumbnailAlfred Hart 
No. 48, Secret Town Trestle from the West 
[Central Pacific Railroad] 
n.d. 
Stereocards 
Stereographica - Antique Photographica 
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 236) 
  
55 
  
LL/11183
ThumbnailAlfred Hart 
No. 57, Excursion Train at Cape Horn 
[Central Pacific Railroad] 
n.d. 
Stereocards 
Stereographica - Antique Photographica 
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 238) 
  
56 
  
LL/11286
ThumbnailEadweard Muybridge 
784 - Flumes for Hydraulic Mining at Gold Run 
[Central Pacific Railroad] 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Stereographica - Antique Photographica 
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 153) 
  
57 
  
LL/10978
ThumbnailAlfred Hart 
107. New Hampshire Rocks, looking down the River. Frank Durgan large locomotive backmark 
[Central Pacific Railroad. California] 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica 
Courtesy of Jeffrey Kraus (HART55) 
  
58 
  
LL/10979
ThumbnailAlfred Hart 
64. Dutch Flat Station. 67 miles-altitude 3,416 feet. - Backmark 
[Central Pacific Railroad. California] 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica 
Courtesy of Jeffrey Kraus (HART57) 
  
59 
  
LL/10980
ThumbnailAlfred Hart 
155. View at the Forks of the American River 
[Central Pacific Railroad. California] 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica 
Courtesy of Jeffrey Kraus (HART3) 
  
60 
  
LL/10981
ThumbnailAlfred Hart 
163. Frame for Snow Covering, interior view 
[Central Pacific Railroad. California] 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica 
Courtesy of Jeffrey Kraus (HART30) 
  
 
  
 
  
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