Freight Collection (page 2)

Man at the rear of a railway train, USA
Man standing at the rear of a railway train, North America. The section he is on is known as a Caboose -- a manned railroad car coupled to the end of a freight train. Date: circa 1908

Poster, Flotta Lauro, fast de luxe passenger and freight services. 1952

Timken tapered roller bearing axleboxes - train
A recent innovation by British Timken Ltd - a tapered-roller-bearing wagon bearing unit for freight stock made suitable for high speed and replacing the old plain-bearing axlebox

Railway Station, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1910s

American Liberty Ship - Advance Transport
An American Liberty Ship (a prefabricated US-built freighter (emergency cargo ships) of the Second World War) - providing advance transport. Date: 1945

Chicago, Illinois - Yacht Club, Grant Park, Biplane flight
Chicago, Illinois - Chicago Yacht Club, Grant Park and flight over both by early pioneer aviator Walter Brookins in his Biplane. Date: circa 1910

Myanmar - Yangon - Street porters pull a large laden wagon
Myanmar - Strand Road, Yangon - Street porters pull a large laden wagon. Date: 1928

Niagara Cantilever Bridge
A freight train cross the cantilever bridge over the Niagara River, constructed in 1883-84. It was built for the Michigan Central and Canadian Southern railways. Date: circa 1895

Freighting in the early days, Lassen County, California, USA
Freighting in the early days with horses and wagons, Lassen County, California, USA. Date: 1880s

Compound Mallet Freight Engine locomotive, USA
Compound Mallet Freight Engine locomotive, built for the Southern Pacific line, California, USA. Date: circa 1910

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Burrard Inlet, showing the steamers Empress of Canada, Empress of Russia and Niagara. Date: 1929

Team of 20 mules, High Point, North Carolina, USA
A team of 20 mules at High Point, North Carolina, USA, the traditional way of hauling freight. The team belongs to I M Lassiter. Date: circa 1908

Erie Railroad Portage Viaduct. The trestle wooden structure built in1852; destroyed by fire in 1875. Designed by Silas Seymour 276m long

Railway Bridge Crossing Canal
Railway crossing a canal, the essential methods of transport in the Industrial Revolution

Freight wagon, Japan

Train with snow plough at Blue Canyon, California
The rotary snow plough at Blue Canyon, California(Southern Pacific Railway).The plough is nearly 10 foot in diametre, and is pushed by a powerful freight train. Date: c. 1930s

The Mustang plane by G. H. Davis
The Mustang: fastest army cooperation plane in the world, in use during the Second World War. A hard-hitting, amazingly fast reconnaissance aircraft. Date: 1942

The Limited and Freight Car of a mining comany. Old fashioned freight vehicles

A ship moored near Tower Bridge, London
A ship moored at the Central Steam Navigation Company docks. From Tower Bridge, London. Date: c. 1950s

Weighing Barge Load
Calculating the weight of a barge load by displacement of water, on the Grand Union Canal, England. Barges are paid according to weight of freight being carried. Date: 1950s

Railway Porter rather rude to sizeable female passenger
Stout Party - " And can t I get to X - without walking?" Railway Porter - " Well, theres the coal Train, Mum." Stout Party - " How much will it cost me

Bristol Sycamore Mk3A G-AMWH Sir Geraint
Bristol Sycamore Mk3A, G-AMWH, Sir Geraint, of British European Airways being loaded for the inaugural Gatwick to Heathrow freight service. 4 October 1954. Date: 1954

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Series 10CF
?McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Series 10CF convertible passenger freight transport aircraft in the insignia of Continental Air Lines?. Jane?s all the world?s aircraft 1975-76. p.393

Culpeper Court House, Va. Freight train on Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va. 1862, July-August 1862. Date 1862 August

View of Boston freight terminals, The New York, New Haven & Hartford railraod. View of Boston freight terminals, The New York, New Haven & Hartford railraod

Boys hopping freight. Date between 1925 and 1935?

Santa Fe RR freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill. Date 1943 March

General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. Date 1943 April

Chicago Tunnels
Beneath the streets of Chicago an extensive system of tunnels conveys freight hither and thither. Date: 1916

Caravan on the way to Kabul in the Khyber Pass
Caravan on the way to Kabul, Afghanistan in the Khyber Pass. Date: 1906

Poster for rail freight Date: 1937

The freight team, Los Angeles Aqueduct. Ten and twelve mule teams convey supplies from Division Siding to the tunnel camps up in the mountains

Policeman and dog by a railway line
A policeman and his alsatian dog by a railway line, next to a freight train transporting mini cars

Nelson Line poster
Poster in French advertising the Nelson Line and its Paris agents J.M. Currie & Co, a cargo shipping line which began in the 1880s and pioneered the carriage of refrigerated goods, including meat

Belgian Factory
Etablissements & Charbonnages du Grand-Hornu, near Mons : a passenger train is passing in the foreground, and over on the right is a freight train carrying coal to the works

The great railway strike, Stratford
Deserted railway track at Stratford. The station was at a standstill during the great railway strike. The strike took place in the last two weeks of September 1919

Goods Train 1980
A British goods train

L POOL / M CHESTER RAILWAY
LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER RAILWAY Two freight and two passenger trains showing the variety of rolling stock employed on this short but busy line. 1st 2nd and 3rd class carriages shown

Yugoslavia Train Crash
On the Zagreb to Spalato line, high winds and snow combine to send a freight train off the tracks

London-Birmingham / 1837
LONDON-BIRMINGHAM LINE Three classes of passenger coach, and a variety of wagons for freight and livestock

Birmingham Railway 1837
BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY: classes of train - each would have had its own engine. First: has a gentlemens barouche! Second: Royal Mail & passengers. Third: Goods & livestock

Air Liner Project 1932
Thinking big, and way beyond the giant flying-boats of the 1930s is this massive flying liner which carries vehicles in its wings, freight and passengers in its twin hulls

Chicago Riots 1894 - 2
RAILWAY STRIKE AT CHICAGO The rioting mob destroys the Panhandle Freight Yards

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