January 1943. New York, New York. Italian-Americans on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Italian grocery store owned by the Ronga brothers on Mulberry Street. Acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.2mo ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
April 3, 1917. Oklahoma City. Workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co., 116 S. Dewey Street. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old, and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said 'He said he wasn't going to school so I took him in.5mo ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Boston & Maine depot.Salem Ma. circa 1910. Colorization by Sanna Dullaway.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Rare color photo of the City of San Francisco train that was trapped in the snow near Emigrant Gap in the Donner Pass.1952”1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
August 1938. Girl fieldworkers at the King Farm on strike against 17-cents-an-hour wages. Morrisville, Pennsylvania. Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A-B-B-B-A warbonnet F-units are on the point of what appears to be the Santa Fe Railway's Super Chief at either Raton Pass or Cajon Pass.2mo ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Girls of the paper mills, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1880-1899, Source- Detroit Publishing Company.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
UP SD40-2s 3409 and 3542 with a Missouri Pacific unit emerging Tunnel 3, Altamont, CA on May 6, 1987.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
An English Electric Lightning F1 crashes in a farmers field. The pilot survived with multiple breaks and cuts. Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Sept 13, 1962.2yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Lehigh Valley RR.in Sayre PA. winter of 1963. We have Baldwin, ALCO and EMD in this photo.4mo ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
1964 - B&O ALCO #4025 in McKeesport, PA. Photo credit belongs to James Gillin.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Where there's a will there's a way. Southern Pacific steam locomotive wading in deep water along flooded trackage at unknown location .2yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
The old Pennsylvania Railroad's one-and-only Q1 Duplex, 6130, is seen in a train yard somewhere circa 1947.1mo ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy E9A-9990 and three mates are approaching Roosevelt Road in Chicago, IL on 10-11-63.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
June 1940. Farmer, his wife, and brother in close harmony. Pie Town, New Mexico.2yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Amtrak 295 with the Reno Fun Train, note the steam generator cars because the F40s could not produce steam, at Yuba Pass, CA in March 1980. Roger Puta photo.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Santa Fe Crane 199793 in Newton, KS in August 1983 captured by Roger Puta.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 3703 L-105 4-6-6-4 Challenger (Baldwin 1938) pulling a westbound 47 car freight train at 10 MPH. Photographed Otto Conrad Perry leaving Denver, Colorado on September 1, 19521yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
July 5, 1927 The Milwaukee Road s electrified service into Seattle Union Station was completed. Picture below of Olympian Hiawatha at Seattle in 1960.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Photo courtesy of David Berg - The 'backhead' of a 2-8-8-4 'Yellowstone' articulated locomotive now part of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in the restored Duluth Union Depot in Duluth, Minnesota.3mo ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
New York Yankee greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig departing for spring training in Florida on board the Seaboard Air Line Railroad passenger train Florida Limited in 1927.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
NYC 1897 a two truck shay with full body enclosure, was originally built for service on the street level tracks on Manhattan's west side. No date but taken in Rochester NY.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
No. 601 is in the lead pulling an A-B-A lash up of the California Zephyrwestbound at the east switch in the Grand Valley, in Mesa County, Colorado Photographed on March 14 1949 by Otto Roach.1mo ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
July 1940. Near Shawboro, North Carolina. Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry [i.e., Cranbury], New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Jack Delano for the FSA.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Great Northern B-D+D-B electric #5019 (Class W-1) is seen here between assignments at Skykomish, Washington on June 9, 1956.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern , 0-10-0 Hump engine. Elkhart Ind. Early 1900's2yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
At the 100th anniversary celebration of the Washington, DC Union Station we see five classic locomotives on display. From left- C&0 F3 No. 8016, Pennsylvania E8 No. 5711, Pennsylvania GG1 No. 4935, Atlantic Coast Line E3 No. 501 and Sou E8 No. 6900.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
PRR T1 5542 poses for an unknown photographer at HUNT Tower in Huntingdon, PA. No date3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Union Pacific M10000 on display at the 1934 World's Fair (A Century of Progress) in Chicago from May 26 to October 31, 19343yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Canadian National freight train about to cross the bridge over the Fraser River at New Westminster, BC..4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
Southern Pacific E7A #6017, and what appears to be a pair of PA's, lead an excursion through California's Niles Canyon during April of 19653yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Afternoon commuter trains at Erie's Pavonia terminal in Jersey City, June 26, 1951.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
From circa 1946 comes this 35mm Kodachrome of Jim and Jack Hardman and their Christmas train set in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Dearborn, Michigan, 1946. Ford Rouge B-Building. Cars leaving assembly line. Ansco color transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photographic archives.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Here is a beautiful shot up in Cajon Pass of ATSF F45 5918 in February 19814yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Train crawls past McBride Street tower. Syracuse, NY. 1920's, unknown photographer x4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 #4017 has a drag freight heading west near Harriman, Wyoming on October 6, 1958.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Santa Fe's shops at Argentine Yard (Kansas), circa 1982. Mike Bledsoe photo.1yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
CRI&P BL2 427 in Chicago, IL seen from the 12th Steet Bridge on May 13, 1964.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
The Santa Fe's late-era San Francisco Chief is seen here at Chillicothe, Illinois on April 24, 1971, about a week before Amtrak launched4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
UP #1. A steam turbine electric built by GE Only 2 were built and lasted only 6 months as they were problem prone. 19393yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Westbound Santa Fe train #1 the San Francisco Chief at Amarillo station with four Alco PA's led by number 58. March 27, 1965.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
March of 1971, Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles and Santa Fe's Super Chief have arrived at LAUPT and are sitting next to each other waiting to be pulled back to their respective coach yards.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
UP DS1020 - EMC NW2 and sisters at the Salt Lake City, UT roundhouse,August 1941.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
CB&Q 4000, a streamlined 4-6-4 in Class S4-A, leads a six car Zephyr Train Set. I believe this is on the CB&Q's Race Track between Chicago and Aurora, Illinois.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Pennsylvania Railroad FM C-Liner #9453 in Altoona, Pennsylvania on September 16, 19554yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Union Pacific Railroad DC-3 at Potter, Nebraska on February 20, 1984, Chuck Zeiler collection. Originally built by Brill as D&M 201, it came to the UP in 1954 by way of the Teledetector Company.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
A pair of Southern Pacific's Train Masters are again seen at San Francisco's 3rd & Townsend Depot in commuter service wearing the road's Black Widow livery during.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
The Office Christmas Party. Washington DC. Western Electric employees.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Train#3, the westbound Fast Flying Virginian, rolls to a stop at Russell, Kentucky on its way to Cincinnati 1950's4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
GN 436D taking a westbound past the CB&Q Highlands Commuter Stop in Hinsdale, IL on April 28, 1963.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
1907. Maud Wagner, circus performer and tattooist. Maud Stevens Wagner (1877-1961), thought to be America's first female tattoo artist. Plaza Gallery, Los Angeles.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
McCloud River Railroad - push plow & locomotives circa 1937 outside McCloud, CA.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Lords Of The Flies,OKC.July 1939 May Ave.homeless camp Image by Shorpy6yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
July 1940. Berrien County, Michigan. Cherry-picking season. Family of migratory fruit workers from Texas. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The Great Northern RR. Saunders WI. 1959 A sad sight,25 steamers to the scrap line.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
Milwaukee Road boxcab set E-22 leads a long manifest freight eastbound through Kittitas, Washington on November 7, 1964.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Two of the historic locomotives that live in Oregon, November 17, 2002. On the left is a Great Northern F7, on the right the last remaining ALCO PA. The F is in running condition and is used by the Portland and Western Rail4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
A pair of SP Trainmasters with 3026 leading are on Train 163 a San Francisco Commuter Train.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
Ontario Southland (OSR) FP9A No. 1401 and FP9A No. 6508 with train at Putnam, Ontario, Canada on August 12, 2019.5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
Sept. 1940. The Jack Whinery family in their Pie Town dugout. Homesteader Whinery, a licensed preacher, donates his services to the local church. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
October 1935. Young residents of Amite City, Louisiana. Ben Shan photo for the FSA4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Wabash E8A 1012 with Train 4, The Wabash Cannonball, at the Danville, IL station on October 28, 1962. Roger Puta photo.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad steam locomotives 2-20-2 L-1 3210 and 3214 with a westbound NYO&W freight, 46 cars, locomotives under rental to NYO&W, Woodridge, New York on July 5, 1947.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
April 1941. Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Smith and their younger children in their farm house, Carroll County, Georgia. Acetate negative by Jack Delano5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Afternoon commuter trains at Erie's Pavonia terminal in Jersey City, June 26, 1951.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
August 2, 1926. Marjorie Joesting, Miss Washington, D.C. and a Miss America runner-up at Atlantic City in 1926.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
ATSF No. 35 crosses the Santa Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge at Highland Park, Los Angeles. Date unknown.6yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
General Motors EMD E8 Diesel-Electric Demonstrator No. 952, built in 19495yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
May 1937. Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma. Eight children in the family. Note the housing. Near Casa Grande project, Arizona. Medium format acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
RS-3 No. 8258 halts with a short train at Pittsfield, Massachusetts in August 1960.3yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 4-8-2 M1 6871 with freight train crossing the Susquehanna River at Marysville, Pennsylvania on May 4, 1941. © 2017, Center for Railroad Photography and Art.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
New York, New Haven and Hartford Locomotive No. 321 crashed through roundhouse. Hartford, Connecticut. Creator: Unknown. Date: July 8, 1905. Credit: SMU, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
Southern Pacific EMD E9 No. 6051 at Los Angeles, California, April 4, 1968.5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
July 1938. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. The Clifford Shorts family at dinner. Mr. Shorts is a roller at the Jones & Laughlin steel mill. Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Boston & Maine # 4000 at North Station coaling dock. Sometime in the 1940's4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/trains
August 1936. Grain elevators at Dumas, Texas. Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. via shorpy5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
July 1939. Boy living in camp near May Avenue, Oklahoma City.Acetate negative by Russell Lee,via shorpy4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
September 1940. Mr. T.J. Long, president of the Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, at his work in a railroad tower near Du Bois. Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. via shorpy5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
The Paducah & Louisville Railway (reporting mark PAL) is a Class II railroad that operates freight service between Paducah and Louisville, Kentucky.5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
VIA 6770 at Burlington, ON - just about to enter Bayview Jct. in October 1981. Photo by Roger Puta. (1020x744)5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Eighteen-year-old Ruth Malcomson, Miss Philadelphia of 1924. Later that year in Atlantic City, she would be crowned Miss America.4yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
I triple dog dare ya! January 1941. Children in Midland, Pennsylvania. Jack Delano for the FSA via shorpy.5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
June 30, 1893. Waiting for the train (girl and boy in railroad depot; map of Ohio on wall). The photographer is credited as one Mrs. W.M. Gatch via shorpy5yr ⋅ 47toolate ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
