Railroads

Ambassador Stanton Griffis (center with unbuttoned coat) stands with unidentified officials beside train in Argentina.

President Harry S. Truman speaks to a crowd gathered at the station from the rear platform of a train in Davis, California, part of his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. (Same as 66-723) From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Broadcast by radio station WDAN, President Harry S. Truman speaks from the rear platform of a train at a Whistlestop in Danville, Illinois, during his 1948 campaign for the presidency. (Original is in oversize drawer.) From: Truman Home.

Three spans of a railroad bridge crossing an unidentified river somewhere near Dran, Vietnam.

A water wheel and railroad bridge on a river near Dran, Vietnam.

a railroad bridge is spanning an unidentified river with a water wheel in the foreground, somewhere in Vietnam.

A 1914 locomotive used at the wood panel plant in Tan Mai, Vietnam.

Thomas C. Cashen (left), former President of the Switchmen's Union and retiring chief of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, receives the President's Certificate of Merit from John R. Steelman (center). President Harry Fraser (right) of the Order of Railroad Conductors succeeded Cashen as Chairman of the Railway Labor Executives' Association.

Good photo of President Harry S. Truman waving from the back of the Presidential Train. He is on a whistlestop campaign tour, location unknown. Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman stands at bottom right. From: The photo was found in a folder in the audiovisual room named "unnumbered prints."

President Harry S. Truman, with the First Lady at left and daughter Margaret Truman, leave on the Presidential train on a 6,000 mile journey. The Chief Executive was going on a "non-political" speaking tour. This photo is similar to 66-1768.