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File Details: AAAIm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 16.8 Mb

Image ID: AAAI

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1863.02-03

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

plane; toolbox

Locations & Lines:

Alexandria VA; Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Transports:

flatcar; USMRR locomotive Epping

Sources:

Huntington Library; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; San Francisco MOMA

More than a dozen men are supervised as they plane the edges of boards. USMRR locomotive in distance is the “Epping”.

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 9. Track near the Potomac River, in Alexandria. – Lumber; part of construction force at work, &c.

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