Railroads

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.

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.