Railroads

President Truman on the Presidential train at a campaign stop in Willard, Missouri.

President Harry S. Truman and staff members on the rear platform of the train taking them to Fulton, Missouri with Winston Churchill, where Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech. From left to right: Harry Vaughan, Clark Clifford, President Truman, Charles Ross (partly obscured behind Truman), Wallace Graham, and an unidentified man.

President Harry S. Truman on the Presidential train at a campaign stop in Willard, Missouri. The other gentlemen on the train platform with him are unidentified.

Seoul, South Korea, railroad yards burning after Air Force dropped napalm.

President Harry S. Truman (right) returns from a whistlestop tour during the presidential campaign. He is joined by his wife, First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (third from the right), daughter Margaret (second from the right), and two unidentified men. They are at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

The Santa Fe train that took President Harry S. Truman from Los Angeles to Kansas City during his West Coast campaign trip, June 3-18, 1948. From the album "President Truman's trip to the West Coast of the U. S."

Crowds of people at the train station in Sacramento, California to see President Harry S. Truman during his West Coast campaign trip, June 3-18, 1948. From the album "President Truman's trip to the West Coast of the U. S."

President Truman is on his way to Bolivar, Missouri with the President of Venezuela to dedicate a statue of Simon Bolivar. This is from a Truman Library Collection 1948-1950 scrapbook.

Platform appearances throughout Wisconsin were made by President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess Truman, and their daughter Margaret. Here the nation's first family is seen greeting crowds at Elroy, Wisconsin.

President Harry S. Truman on the rear platform of the presidential train, speaking to a crowd, in Parkersburg, West Virginia. President Truman was on a trip to Bolivar, Missouri, where he dedicated a statue to Simon Bolivar on July 5, 1948. The train passed through Parkersburg on July 4 and July 6.