[A child leaning against a barrel with wooden spikes] |
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Dockyard at Alexandria, after sunset. Ark builders pitching canvas and laying bottom of ark |
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Exhibits the surface of a pair of barges, showing the tracks for loading and unloading cars, also the movable bridges by which the tracks on the floats are connected with those on the wharf |
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Expedients for crossing streams |
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Experimental bridges |
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Gen'l H. Haupt |
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Haupt's torpedo for quickly wrecking wooden bridges |
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Loudon and Hampshire Railroad, near junction with Alexandria and Washington Railroad |
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[Man holding a pocket auger] |
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[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats ferrying soldiers across the Potomac River] |
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Military railroad bridge across Potomac Creek, on the Fredericksburg Railroad |
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[Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: men using levers for loosening rails] |
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[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 ...] |
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[Railroad trestle bridge] |
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Report ... on foreign railways
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Represents arks 60 feet long, 20 feet wide, and from 6 to 8 feet high |
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Represents arks in process of construction; one is seen on the launching ways nearly finished |
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Represents the platform on which the bottoms of the arks are constructed |
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Scrap heap at Alexandria, composed of remains of cars and engines destroyed at Bristoe and Manassas during Pope's campaigns in the fall of 1862 |
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[Second experiment with board trusses, after it had been broken, and the boards removed from the sides to show the places of fracture] |
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Shed at carpenter shop at Alexandria |
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[Third series of experiments with board trusses-shows appearance of bridge, after 168,000 lbs., in addition to the weight of the bridge, had stood on it for nine hours] |
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Track near the Potomac River, in Alexandria. Lumber; part of construction force at work, &c |
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Transportation on the Potomac. Cars loaded at Alexandria can be carried on barges or arks to Aquia Creek, and sent to stations where the Army of the Potomac is supplied, without break of bulk |
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Trestle bridge across Bull Run, after the freshet of 1863 |
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Turning over the bottom of an ark |
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[Two railroad construction workers hammer track as third construction worker watches] |
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United States Military Railway Service, 1992: |
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[View from the top of a car on the extreme end of the Burnside wharf looking towards shore] |
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Wharf at Alexandria, Va., used by U.S. Military Railroad Department |
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[Worker repairing telegraph line?] |
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Wreck caused by the fracture of an axle of a car on the Loudon and Hampshire Railroad, March 28th, 1863 |
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Wrecking train and gang clearing wreck |
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Yard at Alexandria, construction corps finishing portable bridge trusses |
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