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Posted by Munz Renni on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 2:51 PM

Also you can search on shutterstock and telegram

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Posted by The Milwaukee Road Warrior on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:55 AM

tstage

Wow.  I had missed this site somehow.  Lots of photos of my favorite fallen flag here.  Bookmarked.

Andy

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Posted by The Milwaukee Road Warrior on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:34 AM

mbinsewi

One of my "go-to" places is :

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/

I you can't find it here, it's because nobody has submitted a pictue of it yet.

Mike.

 

Oops, my bad for not mentioning this one, and Rail Pictures.net.

I've spent a lot of time on both and found thousands of amazing photos for my personal screensaver/wallpaper.  

Andy

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Posted by mbinsewi on Monday, March 8, 2021 9:19 PM

One of my "go-to" places is :

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/

I you can't find it here, it's because nobody has submitted a pictue of it yet.

Mike.

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Posted by BigDaddy on Monday, March 8, 2021 7:58 PM

https://www.railcarphotos.com/index.php?

Facebook, which follows you everywherel around the internet whether you are a member or not, has various groups of local historical pictures, like Baltimore Old photos.  How can you not like Nipper?

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, March 8, 2021 6:21 PM

Great photos of the western Pennsylvania area, lots of railroads and steel mills:

https://historicpittsburgh.org/collections/A%2A

Hagley Museum, many PRR photos plus other industrial photos:

https://digital.hagley.org/

Lots of Passenger Car photos:

http://passcarphotos.rypn.org/

Vancouver and western Canada:

https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/informationobject/browse?topLod=0&sort=relevance&query=railroads

 

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Posted by jjdamnit on Monday, March 8, 2021 6:21 PM

Hello All,

Railpictures.net!

Hope this helps.

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Posted by ricktrains4824 on Monday, March 8, 2021 6:16 PM

Also railpictures. net.

 

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Posted by tstage on Monday, March 8, 2021 6:13 PM

https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling

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Posted by Southgate 2 on Monday, March 8, 2021 5:46 PM

Espee.railfan.net if you like Southern Pacific 

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Posted by maxman on Monday, March 8, 2021 5:30 PM

railcarphotos.com

railroad pictures archive.net

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, March 8, 2021 4:13 PM

Railimages is a part of Trainboard.  They are nominally a free service, but they do ask for contributions.  I did that while I was working, but stopped when I retired.  Trainboard is a forum like this one.

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Photo resources?
Posted by The Milwaukee Road Warrior on Monday, March 8, 2021 4:00 PM

Thought I would pick the collective brain on what good photo sources I may be missing.  

I've hit many of the usual suspects already: Flickr, Tumblr, Flickriver (Flickr but more user friendly), Shorpy, various historical societies and associations, public libraries, rail museums, Pinterest, Google Images, Life magazine archives...  

Am I missing any obvious photo resources for railroads?  There are many individual web sites run by fans of various railroads.  Many of them I have already bookmarked.  I always have this nagging feeling that I'm missing something obvious..

Andy

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