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File Details: AAEOm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 17.6 Mb

Image ID: AAEO

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1863.02-03

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

rail

Locations & Lines:

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

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Wilkes Street Tunnel (Alexandria VA)

Sources:

J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. Unnumbered plate.

One in a series of pictures of African-American USMRR workers demonstrating ways of straightening rail. Behind the workers is the Wilkes Street Tunnel.