(via Thomas And The Magic Railroad « AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com 05/22/2013)
yeah…I know
(via Third Avenue El: 1942 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
September 1942. “New York. Looking north from the Ninth Street station on the Third Avenue elevated railway as a train leaves on the local track.” Medium format negative by Marjory Collins, Office of War Information. View full size.
(via A Fork in the Railroad: 1943 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
March 1943. “Sumnerfield, Texas. Brakeman running back to his train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas, and Clovis, New Mexico, as it is ready to start again, after having waited in a siding.” Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Starry, Starry Night (by paul.malon)
(via Waiting for the Light: 1943 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
March 1943. “Kiowa (vicinity), Kansas. Train waiting for a block signal along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.” Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.
Santa Fe Number 51 (by paul.malon)
That’s some test run… (by National Library of Ireland on The Commons)
A girl surveys the wreckage and clean up operation after a train crash at Newbridge, Co. Kildare.
Date: Friday, 7 September 1962
Holy Smoke! (by wackystuff)
The Richest Kid In Town, 1952 (by paul.malon)
something’s going down…I don’t trust those eyes
(via Midnight Special: 1943 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
March 1943. Argentine, Kansas. “Freight train about to leave the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad yard for the West Coast.” Medium-format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.










