Railroads

President Harry S. Truman (right) returned to Union Station in Washington, D.C. after a trip for his Whistlestop Campaign Tour of 1948. He was joined by Margaret Truman (second from right) and Bess Truman (foreground, third from right) as well as other members of his staff. Others are unidentified.

Senator Harry S. Truman and railroad officials leaving the White House after conferring with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the rail situation. Front row, left to right: Joseph B. Eastman of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Charles D. Mahaffie of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Carl Gray, Vice-chairman of the Missouri Pacific Railway; Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; George Harrison, head of the Railway Labor Executives Association; William O. Douglas, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

President Harry S. Truman waves from the rear platform of the presidential train as he is leaving for his western trip to the west coast. Same as 58-33 and 59-1523-2.

From left to right, Harry Vaughan, Martha Ellen Truman, and Mary Jane Truman on a train. They are at Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri.

From left to right, Harry Vaughan, Martha Ellen Truman, and Mary Jane Truman waving from a train. They are at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri.

President Harry S. Truman with road foreman of engines, Robert L. Acker and a Secret Service representative, in Providence, Rhode Island. From J.F. Doolan, V-P of the NY-NH-Hartford R. R. Co., New Haven, CT

John Steelman, center, negotiates a settlement in the Enginemen and Firemen's Railroad Strike of 1950. C.D. MacKay, Chairman of Southeastern Carrier Conference Committee and Assistant Vice President of Southern Railway System, is on the extreme left, and David B. Robertson, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen, is on the extreme right.

Congressional candidate Homer Thornberry (left) is introduced to President Harry S. Truman (third from left) by Congressman and senatorial candidate Lyndon Johnson (second from left). Behind the President is (from left to right) Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, Margaret Truman, and Texas Governor Beauford Jester.

Return of President Harry S. Truman (right) and Vice President-elect Alben Barkley (second from the right) to Washington, D.C. after the Presidential election. Others are unidentified.

Margaret Truman (right) conducts an interview by reporters on the train when President Harry S. Truman was on his trip to the Western States. All others are unidentified.