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Image ID: AAQS

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1863-1864

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

bell

Locations & Lines:

Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Transports:

USMRR boxcar 1258; USMRR locomotive Fire Fly

Sources:

Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art

Library of Congress says: Bridge on Orange & Alexandria Railroad. 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Title from item. Published title: Bridge on Orange & Alexandria [Virginia] Railroad, as repaired by army engineers under Colonel Herman Haupt. Attributed to Andrew J. Russell. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

USMRR engine “Fire Fly” on Orange & Alexandria Railroad trestle with box car No. 1258.

Etched onto negative: 185. 297.

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