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

Image ID: AAES

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1863.03-04

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

rail; jackscrew

Locations & Lines:

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

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Transports:

locomotive

Sources:

J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 68.

Haupt, Photographs Illustrative of Operations In Construction And Transportation, As Used To Facilitate The Movements Of The Armies Of The Rappahannock, Of Virginia, And Of The Potomac, Including Experiments Made To Determine The Most Practical and Expeditious Modes To Be Resorted To In The Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction Of Roads And Bridges. No. 68–The short bends or kinks in the rails, whether in the track or out of it, are readily removed by the apparatus represented in Nos. 67 and 68.