Known Railroad-Related Lithographs by

Currier & Ives

Numbers reflect Conningham (C) and Gale (G) catalog numbers, if known.
Please tell me if you know of additional Currier & Ivers prints with railroad subjects.



Ice-Boat Race on the Hudson C3021-G3258	The Rail Road Suspension Bridge: Near Niagara Falls 1856 C5056-G5479


*Across the Continent: Westward Course of Empire Takes Its Way* 1868 C0033-G0039	Through To The Pacific C6051-G6527


Prairie Fires of the Great West 1871 C4859-G5269	The Great West 1870 C2658-G2879


Lookout Mountain Tennessee: And the Chattanooga Railroad 1866	Pensylvania Rail Road Scenery note mis-spelling C4745-G5143


American Railroad Scene: Snow Bound C0187-G0201 (Image idenitifed as a scene on the Great Northern Railroad. The figure leaning on the shovel near the center is identified as James J. Hill.)	The Route to California: Truckee River Sierra-Nevada 1871


*American Railroad Scene: Lightning Express Leaving the Junction* 1871 C0185-G0199	American Railway Scene: at Hornellsville, Erie Railway (Re-work of American Railroad Scene: Lightning Express Leaving the Junction)


American Railway Scene: at Hornellsville, Erie Railway (Re-work of American Railroad Scene: Lightning Express Leaving the Junction)	*The Danger Signal: United States Mutal Accident Association* about 1884 C1350-G1474


*The Night Express: The Start* C4473-G4856	*The Lightning Express Trains: Leaving The Junction* C3535-G3803


*The Lightning Express*	*The Through Express*


*Night Scene at a Junction* C4477-G4863 (See note for C4476)	Night Scene At an American Railway Junction C4476-G4863 (Image identified as having originated on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. It is not known whether the yard was in Boston or New Haven.)


The Express Train 1870 C1792-G1944 (Image identified as an Erie railroad cut near Jersey City, NJ.)	The Express Train C1790-G1947 (Image identified as a scene on the New York & Erie Railroad, and supposedly the earliest Currier railroad scene. It is reported as having been copied from a bank note of the Bank of Port Jervis. Unfortunately, no such scene is known from Port Jervis notes. However, this scene is known from several other New York institutions of the early 1850s.)


*The Express Train* C1791-G1943	*The Express Train* (Scene identified as having originated as a copy of an 1842 woodcut showing the Boston & Albany Railroad at Greenbush (East Albany), NY.)


*American Express Train* 1864 C0130-G0143 (Image identified as a view of the West Shore Railroad along the Hudson River.	*American Express Train* 1855 C0129-G0142 (Image identified as having been copied from an 1853 poster of the New York Central Railroad.)


The Accomodation Train 1876	A Limited Express: Five Seconds for Refreshments 1884 C3542-G3812


Darktown Trolley: Through Car in Danger C1435-G1560	*The Great Race for the Western Stakes, 1870* C2643-G2863 (Image shows Commodore Vanderbilt atop locomotives of the Hudson River Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. James Fisk rides an Erie Railroad locomotive.)


Progress of the Century: The Lightning Steam Press. The Electric Telegraph. The Locomotive. The Steamboat. 1876 C4959-G5379	The Statue Unveiled: or the Colossus of Roads C5716-G6125 (Image shows Commodore Vanderbilt watering his railroads while Jim Fisk looks on.)


*Blood Will Tell* C0571-G0638	*Blood Will Tell* C0572-G0639


*A Kiss in the Dark* C3347-G3613	*Crossed by "A Milk Train"* C1862-G1429


*More Plucky Than Prudent*	*Off His Nut* C4540-G4928


A Nightmare in the Sleeping Car: "Oh, I was s-o-o dry!" Chorus, - "Dry up and Bust." C4478-G4857	A Short Stop at a Way Station: The Polite Conductor C5500-G5900


A Wild Cat Train: No Stop Overs C6664-G7206	*Wrecked by a Cow Catcher* C6792-G7339


Waking Up The Wrong Passenger: "I say old man! Keep your hooks out of my trousers." C6491-G7015