Train Gallery

Transcontinental railroad workers attacked by Native Americans

Cheyenne Indians attacking workers building the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1867.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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B&O Railroads Tom Thumb steam locomotive, 1830

Passenger car pulled by Peter Cooper's experimental locomotive "Tom Thumb" on the B&O Railroad, 1830.
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Railroad trestle over the Mississippi River in Minnesota

Northern Pacific Railroad bridge over the Mississippi River at Brainerd, Minnesota, 1871.
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