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[Switch on a railroad track] - Public domain drawing

[Switch on a railroad track] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-7. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.772) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Washington, D.C., switch yards, Union Station]

[Washington, D.C., switch yards, Union Station]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Switch. Hand closing electric switch

Switch. Hand closing electric switch

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

[Monitor, Receiver switch, United States Veterans Hospital. Designed and constructed by Radio Construction Corp., Washington, D.C.]

[Monitor, Receiver switch, United States Veterans Hospital. Designed a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Monitor, Receiver switch, United States Veterans Hospital. Designed and constructed by Radio Construction Corp., Washington, D.C.]

[Monitor, Receiver switch, United States Veterans Hospital. Designed a...

Public domain photograph of hospital laboratory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Switch. Hand closing electric switch

Switch. Hand closing electric switch

Public domain photograph of midcentury American industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Native of Olga, Louisiana drinking at the bar. Note the branch of tree used as a mosquito switch

Native of Olga, Louisiana drinking at the bar. Note the branch of tree...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Great Depression. FS...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women w...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill.

Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stoc...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackout regulations, flood lights, switch lights, locomotive headlights and lights on the bridge in background have been shaded to cast light downward. Broad streaks of light are caused by paths of locomotive headlights, thin wavy lines by lamps of switchmen working in the yard. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackou...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Great ...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a train, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a train, West Vi...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Great Depression. FS...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Switch yard at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, vicinity of Sheffield, Ala., 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River

Switch yard at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, vicinity of Sheff...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R.

Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street fre...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a train yard, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a train yard, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. Vernon Brower, riding the foot board of a diesel switch engine at the South Water Street freight terminal

Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. Vernon Brower, riding the foot bo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill.

Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park stocky...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R.

Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a steam engine train, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a steam engine train, Great Depression. FSA...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. All switch lights, head lights and lamps have been shaded from above in accordance with blackout regulations. The heavy light streaks are caused by paths of locomotive headlights and the thin lines by lamps of switchmen working in the yard. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. All switch lig...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Switch engine, Saint Louis, Missouri

Switch engine, Saint Louis, Missouri

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yardman polishing light on railroad switch. Elkins, West Virginia

Yardman polishing light on railroad switch. Elkins, West Virginia

Public domain photograph of freight train, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chicago, Ill.

Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a si...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train, railroad, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR.,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a battle, city walls, siege, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill.

Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South Water street fre...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Switch lights in Santa Fe R.R. yards, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackout regulations all such lights are hooded. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Switch lights in Santa Fe R.R. yards, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to black...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.

Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train engine, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a train engine, Great Depression. FSA/OWI P...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Daniel Senise throwing a switch while at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad yard

Daniel Senise throwing a switch while at work in an Indiana Harbor Bel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

No absenteeism here. Knoxville, Tennessee. As he threw the switch that started the first generators of Tenessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Douglas Dam, a vital war power-production unit, Patrick P. Marshall, steam-fitter, said: "I realized that any day I was absent was a day given to the enemy." Marshall had been on the job for 374 consecutive workdays. He was chosen among eighteen workers, all of whom never missed a day of work on Douglas, to speak for the employees. He is shown here being congratulated by W.L. Batt, War Production Board (WPB) vice-chairman, on the completion of a job that is making aluminum for bombers ahead of schedule

No absenteeism here. Knoxville, Tennessee. As he threw the switch that...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detail of switch engine in the yards at Big Spring, Texas

Detail of switch engine in the yards at Big Spring, Texas

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Operating switch at railroad station. Carson City, Nevada

Operating switch at railroad station. Carson City, Nevada

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Air raid protection--what NOT to do when alarm sounds. DON'T tamper with the wires! Do not turn out all the lights in the house at the main switch. Cover the windows with light-proof material in the rooms you must use

Air raid protection--what NOT to do when alarm sounds. DON'T tamper wi...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian defense. This overhead switch controls the output of a 110-volt direct current generator, operating at 10 kilowatts to supply power to provide power for the two searchlights on the roof of the huge Emergency Service truck. There are also several auxilliary lights runs out from the truck and powered by this generator. This truck in New York City is the only one of its kind, so far

Civilian defense. This overhead switch controls the output of a 110-vo...

Public domain photograph of New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. In the roundhouse at an Illinois Central Railroad yard. This switch engine is being converted into a road engine

Chicago, Illinois. In the roundhouse at an Illinois Central Railroad y...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In the electrical assembly department, women employees assemble switch boxes for North American B-25 bombers

In the electrical assembly department, women employees assemble switch...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box for an airplane tow target is drilled in a production jig at an Eastern plant that formerly made metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box fo...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. A pneumatic tube system connects the main yard office with yardmasters' offices throughout the Illinois Central Railroad yard. Switch lists and other communications are quickly sent in this way

Chicago, Illinois. A pneumatic tube system connects the main yard offi...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Inside the fuselage of a North American P-51 fighter, this woman employee assembles an electrical switch box

Inside the fuselage of a North American P-51 fighter, this woman emplo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American's Inglewood, California, plant. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Switch boxes on the firewal...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists are sent by teletype from the main yard office to yardmasters, tower men, and other offices at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists are sent by teletype from the main yar...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes are stacked by an employee of a large Eastern concern whose product will shortly switch from amusement devices to electrical equipment for Uncle Sam's army and navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Automobile plant. An electrical switch box is hooked up on a No. 9 1/2 big 90T96 Cleveland press, just relocated in an automobile factory to perform an operation on an army truck part. The old location of the press is devoted to tank production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. An electrical switch box is hooked up on...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Throwing a switch during switching operations at one of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yards

Chicago, Illinois. Throwing a switch during switching operations at on...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office

Chicago, Illinois. Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump offices at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump offi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Denver, Colorado. Interior of a once-abandoned railroad machine shop, now producing fabricated steel parts for the hulls of escort vessels, showing an overhead crane which once lifted switch engine boilers and old box car axles, now moving a heavy steel plate which will become the sturdy belly of a fighting ship

Denver, Colorado. Interior of a once-abandoned railroad machine shop, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Switch engine which has just pushed its last car over the hump at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Switch engine which has just pushed its last car ov...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Yardmaster (left) discussing a switch list with a train clerk at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Yardmaster (left) discussing a switch list with a t...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Air Corps are welded at an Eastern plant that used to make metal screens for windows and doors. Among the items now produced are junction boxes, switch boxes for airplane tow targets and navigator windows for bombers

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Ai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Inside the fuselage of a North American P-51 fighter, this woman employee assembles an electrical switch box

Inside the fuselage of a North American P-51 fighter, this woman emplo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a switch engine are ready to shunt cars loaded with fiberglass materials onto the main line for movement to vital war industries

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a s...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box for an airplane tow target is drilled in a production jig at an Eastern plant that formerly made metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box fo...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Switching cars in one of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yards. The switch man is braking the last two cars

Chicago, Illinois. Switching cars in one of the Chicago and Northweste...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. As each car goes by his window at an Illinois Central Railroad yard, the engine foreman checks it against his switch list

Chicago, Illinois. As each car goes by his window at an Illinois Centr...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Throwing a switch after an Illinois Central Railroad train has gone by

Chicago, Illinois. Throwing a switch after an Illinois Central Railroa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Machining a switch pivot for a machine gun in a large Eastern plant. Women's hands are playing a prominent role in this plant producing essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Machining a switch pivot...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum switch boxes for airplane tow targets are gas-welded at an Eastern plant which normally makes metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum switch boxes for...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. As the train goes through a small town, the conductor exchanges high signs with a switch tender

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cicero, Illinois. Engineer in the cab of a diesel switch engine at the Clyde yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Cicero, Illinois. Engineer in the cab of a diesel switch engine at the...

Public domain photograph of diesel or electric train engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Diesel switch engine working in a railway yard

Chicago, Illinois. Diesel switch engine working in a railway yard

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. View through the window of the engineer's side of the cab. Ready to pull out of the yard, the engineer waits for the switchman to throw the switch

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cicero, Illinois. Switching cars with a diesel switch engine at the Clyde yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Cicero, Illinois. Switching cars with a diesel switch engine at the Cl...

Public domain photograph of diesel or electric train engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Bernardino, California. Yard crew working with a Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad diesel switch engine

San Bernardino, California. Yard crew working with a Atchison, Topeka,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Diesel switch engine working at the South Water Street, Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal

Chicago, Illinois. Diesel switch engine working at the South Water Str...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a bench. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a bench. Office of War...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sandusky, Ohio. The kick-back trestle of the Pennsylvania Railroad number two dock. In the distance, a switch engine that has just delivered a trainload of coal, is going back to the storage yard for more

Sandusky, Ohio. The kick-back trestle of the Pennsylvania Railroad num...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Bernardino, California. Switch engine and switchman working in the yard used by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad

San Bernardino, California. Switch engine and switchman working in the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Canadian, Texas. Switch engine changing cabooses on a Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad train

Canadian, Texas. Switch engine changing cabooses on a Atchison, Topeka...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cicero, Illinois. Switching cars with a diesel switch engine at the Clyde yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Cicero, Illinois. Switching cars with a diesel switch engine at the Cl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sandusky, Ohio. Looking across the Pennsylvania Railroad docks from number one dock to number three dock. In the background, a switch engine is bringing in a trainload of coal

Sandusky, Ohio. Looking across the Pennsylvania Railroad docks from nu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. New York Central switch engine working at South Water Street, Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal

Chicago, Illinois. New York Central switch engine working at South Wat...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sandusky, Ohio. Looking across the Pennsylvania Railroad docks from number one dock to number three dock. In the background, a switch engine is bringing in a trainload of coal

Sandusky, Ohio. Looking across the Pennsylvania Railroad docks from nu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blue Island, Illinois. Switching a train with a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad

Blue Island, Illinois. Switching a train with a diesel switch engine o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the 1,000 skilled Negro women working at the Kaiser shipyards, at Richmond, California, who helped build the SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7, 1943. Miss Odie Mae Embry mans the emergency switch for the protection of track workers as the huge crane swings 100 feet above

One of the 1,000 skilled Negro women working at the Kaiser shipyards, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Switchmen riding one of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad diesel switch engines

Chicago, Illinois. Switchmen riding one of the Atchison, Topeka and Sa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Argentine, near Kansas City, Kansas. Floyd C. McKillip, switchman, in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway yards. The paper stuck in his cap is a switch list

Argentine, near Kansas City, Kansas. Floyd C. McKillip, switchman, in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daniel Senise throwing a switch while at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt line railroad yard

Daniel Senise throwing a switch while at work in an Indiana Harbor Bel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daniel Senise throwing a switch at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad yard

Daniel Senise throwing a switch at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. In the background, his train starts to pull out and head-man Lee Hines throws switch to clear the track

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blue Island, Illinois. Engineer in the cab of a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad

Blue Island, Illinois. Engineer in the cab of a diesel switch engine o...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Switching a train with a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad

Switching a train with a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blue Island, Illinois. Switchman riding the footboard of a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad

Blue Island, Illinois. Switchman riding the footboard of a diesel swit...

Public domain photograph of diesel or electric train engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Switch panel in C&P building on N. Irving St., Arlington, Virginia

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Switch panel in C&P building...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Switch box in home at 3845 Suitland Rd.

Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Switch box in home...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. Single wave guide, switch assembly

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. ...

Public domain photograph of 20th-century New York City interiors, commerce, 1940s-1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Service of New Jersey, Bergen station. Low voltage switch gear II

Public Service of New Jersey, Bergen station. Low voltage switch gear ...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Service of New Jersey, Bergen station. Low voltage switch gear I

Public Service of New Jersey, Bergen station. Low voltage switch gear ...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Switch yards, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Switch yards, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Switch yards, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Switch yards, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Switch yards, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Switch yards, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An army graveyard. Winter camp near Stoneman's Switch, Falmouth, Virginia / E.F.

An army graveyard. Winter camp near Stoneman's Switch, Falmouth, Virgi...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.53) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

An army graveyard. Winter camp near Stoneman's Switch, Falmouth, Virginia / E.F.

An army graveyard. Winter camp near Stoneman's Switch, Falmouth, Virgi...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.53) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Study of infantry soldier on guard--William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12th N.Y. Vols.--Sketched at Stoneman's Switch, near Fredricksburg [sic], Virginia Jan. 27th, 1863

Study of infantry soldier on guard--William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.42) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Study of infantry soldier on guard--William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12th N.Y. Vols.--Sketched at Stoneman's Switch, near Fredricksburg [sic], Virginia Jan. 27th, 1863

Study of infantry soldier on guard--William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.42) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Study of infantry soldier on guard--William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12th N.Y. Vols.--Sketched at Stoneman's Switch, near Fredricksburg [sic], Virginia Jan. 27th, 1863

Study of infantry soldier on guard--William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.42) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.