#vintage locomotives

[stone-cold-groove]

We had style then - a 1930s era Soviet 2-3-2B streamlined locomotive.

[agelessphotography]

Animal Locomotion, Plate 637, Eadweard Muybridge, 1887

[danskjavlarna]

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A sense of perspective: vintage perspective imagery.

[peachesodell]

Behold: The Chicago Mercury about 1936. Ta-dah!

[new-york-central-official]

One of our favorite pieces of artwork depicting a part of our grand rail system is featured here on the cover of a promotional pamphlet full of activities and information for people visiting New York courtesy of us. The New York Central Building was our headquarters until the bitter end, and it is rendered beautifully here dominating park avenue. It is (illegitimately) called The Helmsley Building today. On the table of contents a banner image containing the New York Central Mercury, a streamlined 4-6-2 introduced in 1936.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Rails and Sails trading cards - Topps (1955)

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

Mary with Engine 85 at the Detroit, Toledo, & Ironton Railroad Depot, Napoleon, Ohio, 1924

[vintagepromotions]

'Dulox enamels - unsurpassed totally Italian products'

Poster advertising Duco Dulox enamel paints featuring an illustration of workers wearing coloured overalls holding up assorted vehicles (c. 1930). Artwork by L. Zenari.

[retropopcult]

"Conductor handing engineer copy of train orders before a Chicago and North Western freight pulls out for Clinton, Iowa. Since the track between those points is under automatic train control, the engineer hands the conductor the key to the automatic train control lock of the engine. The conductor will keep the key in the caboose until the train arrives at its destination." Photographed January 1943 in Chicago by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

[fidjiefidjie]

Bonjour, bon Week-end ☕️ 🥐 🍎 ou bonnes vacances 🎒

La locomotive 🗼Paris 1929

Photo de Roger Schall

[diana-andraste]

Human Locomotion Chronophotography Composite, Étienne-Jules Marey, 1886

Gif by Frank Petter

[gameraboy2]

Knott's Berry Farm railroad, 1950s

[trainmaniac]

J17 BR 65567 at Doncaster Works being cosmetically restored for preservation in the National Collection 04-06-1963 by Paul Kearley Via Flickr: The photographer is unknown. A digitally restored image from an original negative in my collection.

[danskjavlarna]

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From runaway trains to flying trains to trains to Mars, all aboard my vintage locomotives gallery.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Locomotive accident in the Gare de Montparnasse railway station in Paris

French vintage postcard

[new-york-central-official]

New York Central J1 Hudson steaming alongside the Hudson in a postcard version of a Walter L. Greene painting.