The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Portrait of a group of Afro-Brazilian railroad workers, c. 1855-1860. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Stereoview of the western entrance of the Hoosac Tunnel taken from the interior of the tunnel during its construction near North Adams, M...

Stereoview of workers loading barrels onto a train probably somewhere in France, c. 1855-1860. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Hand-colored glass stereoview of three men posing in front of coal trains near Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1856. By the Langenheim brothers...

View of the interior of an armored train car used during the Mexican Revolution, c. 1910′s. From the book Mexico and the United States; A...

An unidentified man posing in front of a field hospital near City Point, Virginia, during the Siege of Petersburg. Attributed to Mathew B...

A group posing in front of a drover's cottage at MacCoy's Stock Yard in Abilene, Kansas, 1867. By Alexander Gardner. Source.

Austrian troops posing with an armored train somewhere in Galicia during World War 1. Source.

View of civilian refugees on the first train out of Kimberley after the lifting of the Siege of Kimberley during the Boer War in South Af...

Railroad workers pointing at damage caused by artillery fire on the steam locomotive named Fred Leach during the Civil War. Attributed ...

Two views of men posing with the wreckage of a steam locomotive named Charles Minot which was derailed during an attack by Confedera...

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

A man posing on an early steam locomotive named Old Catawissa, 1856. Possibly taken in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, which was the location of...

Union soldiers destroying railroad tracks in Atlanta, Georgia, 1864. By George Barnard. Animated stereoview. Source.

Two men standing at the entrance to a railroad bridge of the Elmira and Williamsport Railroad near Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1854. B...

Time-lapse photographs of a group of Union soldiers posing behind a locomotive, Engine No. 162, during the Civil War in Chattanooga, Tenn...

Union soldiers posing in front of destroyed railroad cars owned by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad at Manassas Junction, Virginia, Aug...

The interior of one of the train cars. Photographs of spectators viewing the wreckage of a derailed train in Bangor,...

  Two photographers having a picnic in front of a destroyed railroad bridge at Blackburn's Ford, 1862. Animated stereoscopic ph...

A group of African American men repairing railroad tracks shortly after the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, ...