Showing posts with label locomotive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label locomotive. Show all posts

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Two Views of Men Posing With the Wreckage of a Steam Locomotive Named Charles Minot Which Was Derailed During an Attack by Confederate Cavalry Near Manassas Junction, Virginia (1862)




Two views of men posing with the wreckage of a steam locomotive named Charles Minot which was derailed during an attack by Confederate cavalry in Virginia, 1862. The men, probably railroad engineers, appear to be trying to salvage the locomotive. According to Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War, this was a train derailed by Confederate cavalry near Manassas Junction in 1862. By Andrew J. Russell.

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Negative version of the second photograph held by the National Archives (NARA).

Monday, December 22, 2014

View of a Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in Virginia (1862)


View of a locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in Virginia, August 1862. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

A Man Posing on an Early Steam Locomotive Named Old Catawissa (1856)


A man posing on an early steam locomotive named Old Catawissa, 1856. Possibly taken in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, which was the location of an early railroad. By the Langenheim brothers. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The Wreckage of a Steam Locomotive in the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Depot (1865)


Union soldiers and civilians posing with the wreckage of a steam locomotive in the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad depot in Richmond, Virginia, 1865. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Monday, February 17, 2014

A Derailed Locomotive


A group of people posing with a derailed locomotive. Said to be taken in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Date unknown, c. 1860's-1880's. Animated stereoview.

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Another photograph from the crash.