The Library of Congress has uploaded 3,000 public domain images from the 1940s to Flickr … and may eventually upload more of its collection. The photo above is one of the many that are already available; I found it while searching for “locomotive.”
There are also a number of images taken in Chattanooga as well. I had hoped to find some that had locomotives from the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis or Norfolk and Western railroads … but no such luck yet.
Many of the locomotive-related photos are eerily beautiful, like the ones below (the images are linked to their corresponding Flickr pages if you’re interested). And … they’re in color, which is especially cool for photographs from this era.
I really can’t get over the beauty of those last few.
Oh, and if you’d like a quick shortcut to the ‘home page’ of the photos, look no further: Flickr Photos from The Library of Congress.
Hat Tip: Reason Magazine
0 Responses to “Steam Locomotive in Ducktown, TN & Other 1940s Photos”
Leave a Reply