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2,374 photos and 19 illustrations tagged railroads, from 28 members of Flickr Commons.

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• trains
• railroadyards
• railways
• diesellocomotives
• locomotives
• railroadcars
• railroadbridges
• railroadfreightcars
• railroadstations
• depots
• switchers
• tp
• sp
• tenders
• cornelluniversitylibrary
• culidentifier:lunafield=idnumber
• espee
• texaspacificrailway
• bridgeconstruction
• cbq
• cs
• atsf
• atchisontopekaandsantaferailwaycompany
• fwd

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• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1,901 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 185 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 72 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 40 photos & illustrations
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 39 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 27 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 24 photos & illustrations
• British Library 19 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 11 photos & illustrations
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 10 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Scotland 10 photos & illustrations
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 8 photos & illustrations

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Waiting for the train that will never come...

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 20 older comments, and then…
• Sharon Corbet said:

  According to wikipedia, Lisbellaw station closed on 1st October 1958, less than a year before this photo.

• beachcomber australia said:

  1 September 1959 was a Tuesday . . .

• beachcomber australia said:

  Flickr is sometimes amazingly four years earlier - in 1955 via Ernies Railway Archive -

• Robin Parkes said:

  The Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway had no reason to continue after the railway to Enniskillen was closed.

• Foxglove said:

  the main building, the windows arches give it an ecclesiastical appearance. signs of life, washing on the line (not on the rail line, the clothes line)

Steaming into history

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 8 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  4 May 1968 was a Saturday . . .

• Foxglove said:

  a dog waits patiently ..

• beachcomber australia said:

  Flickr sometimes has an amazing earlier photo! Via Fingal Local Studies Was Mr O'Dea on that wonderful old footbridge? The station seems to have been rebuilt nearer the level crossing. In May 2020 via Barry Kelly

• beachcomber australia said:

  Mr O'Dea was there in 1940! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000303279

• Suck Diesel said:

  ex NCC Class WT ?

The Empire strikes back(ish)

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 11 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  7 April 1963 was a Sunday ...

• Foxglove said:

  One definition of a tamper is a "neutron reflector in nuclear weapons" ... which could fit with the "other galaxy" appearance. but as we all should know , ramping is a measure of compaction. it's a fine looking bit of kit

• Ilia Alshanetsky said:

  remarkable!

• beachcomber australia said:

  There's more to this than meets the eye, and Inspector O'Mahony is on to it! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000306313 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamping_machine

• josh jones said:

  😲😆...😍👏