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All Aboard!

by The Library of Congress

Ride the rails through this selection of train-related photos, drawings, prints and posters from the Prints & Photographs Division.

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A mile a minute (LOC)

[People inside and outside stopped train alongside a canyon in Mexico] (LOC)

Happy 8th Birthday, Flickr Commons! 4 days to go (LOC)

North Coast Limited in the Montana Rockies (LOC)

Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, 21st & Hamilton Streets Philadelphia (LOC)

The new Shasta Daylight (LOC)

The splendid engine drawing President Roosevelt's special train, Fairmont, Nebraska (LOC)

Petites constructions. (LOC)

The world's railroad scene (LOC)

The flying locomotive (LOC)

Military railroad bridge across Potomac Creek, on the Fredericksburg Railroad (LOC)

William Crooks (LOC)

Destruction of the locomotives on the bridge over the Chickahominy (LOC)

[Eleanor Pray and Sarah Smith posed with their friend Mr. Hunt at a Trans-Siberian railroad car on the Ussuri line, which runs north from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk, Russia] (LOC)

Yokohama tetsudō jōki shussha no zu (LOC)

The first steam railroad passenger train in America (LOC)

Highlands of the Hudson--New York Central System (LOC)

First train to cross Crooked River Bridge, Oregon Trunk R.Y., Central Oregon, length 340 ft., height 320 ft. (LOC)

Famous De Witt Clinton train, one of the first in America, Transportation Building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A. (LOC)

Santa Fe R.R. freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Largest locomotive in the world, weighs 239 tons, used in B.Y.O. Freight Service, Transportation Building, Worlds Fair, St. Louis, 1904. (LOC)

Peter Cooper's locomotive "Tom Thumb," 1829- first steam locomotive built in America (LOC)

World's Fair, railroad exhibit. (LOC)

[Summit, cog wheel train, Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, Colo.] (LOC)