Railroads

A railway engine standing on tracks at iron mines northeast of Anshan, Manchuria. This was practically the only piece of surface equipment remaining after Soviet soldiers removed everything during occupation. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Members of the Reparations Mission party sitting at a table in the dining car of their special train to Anshan, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Marines from Tientsin, on railcar, who brought jeeps to Mukden, Manchuria, for use by the Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Front row from left to right, District Commissioner Guy Jason, First Lady Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, President Harry S. Truman. They are standing on the rear of a train at Union Station, Washington, D.C. having returned from a political campaigning trip.

Thomas E. Dewey, Republican candidate for President, with his wife at his side, waves to the crowd from the rear platform of the "Dewey Victory Special" at a 1948 campaign train stop in Warrensburg, Missouri. Others on the train are unidentified. From: Ken Raveill (Credit: "Photo by Ken Raveill, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library")

President Harry S. Truman (right) standing on the rear platform of the presidential train, shaking hands with an unknown man. The train is in Union Station, Washington, D.C. President Truman had just returned from a campaign trip.

President Harry S. Truman (third from right) and Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley (fourth from right) greet two unidentified men on the rear platform of the presidential train. Truman and Barkley had just returned to Union Station in Washington, D.C. after their victory in the 1948 election.

President Harry S. Truman (far right) on the rear platform of the presidential train, speaking to two unidentified men. Truman had just returned to Washington, D.C., after having won election to a second term in 1948.

President Harry S. Truman's train, passing through the mountains, with a river alongside. President Truman was on a trip to Bolivar, Missouri, where he dedicated a statue to Simon Bolivar.

President Harry S. Truman's train passing through the mountains. President Truman was on a trip to Bolivar, Missouri, where he dedicated a statue to Simon Bolivar.