Railroads

President Harry S. Truman (center) stands on the back of a train, campaigning in Kern County, Bakersfield, California. All others are unidentified. Taken from the campaign scrapbook of HST.

President Harry S. Truman (center behind the train podium) addresses the crowd gathered to hear him at a train station in California. James Roosevelt (far right on rear platform) joins him. All others are unidentified. Taken from the campaign scrapbook of HST.

Among several men, President Harry S. Truman (second from the left) speaks from the back of a campaign train in Iowa City, Iowa. Also on the train platform with President Truman is Guy Gillette, candidate for Senator (second from right). All others are unidentified. Taken from the campaign scrapbook of HST.

This is a photograph of a troop train stopped at a station somewhere in France. The photograph is part of a collection belonging to Harry S. Truman from the time he spent in France during World War I.

Photograph is part of a collected group of photos belonging to Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy (1949-1951). They are associated with the United States Philippine War Damage Commission. This unidentified view is of a war damaged railroad engine laying off the track in the Philippines.

Photograph is part of a collected group of photos belonging to Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy (1949-1951). They are associated with the United States Philippine War Damage Commission. This unidentified view is of a war damaged railroad engine laying off the track in the Philippines.

Photograph is part of a collected group of photos belonging to Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy (1949-1951). They are associated with the United States Philippine War Damage Commission. This view is identified as post-World War II rolling stock of the Manila Railroad Company, Philippines.

A train on the railroad tracks in an unidentified area of New York.

President Harry S. Truman, accompanied by his daughter, Margaret, boards the Presidential Special at Union Station in Washington, D.C. today to attend the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia. It will be his last official appearance as President at the annual service classic. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman addresses a crowd from the back of his train. He is in Wilmington, Delaware, campaigning for Adlai Stevenson. He told the crowd:" if the Republicans ever get the authority they will start backing down on our program of international cooperation and that is why it is essential that Adlai Stevenson be elected President." From: Houston Post.