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Original vintage black-and-white photograph featuring a Lackawanna Railroad saddle-tank steam locomotive numbered 7 at an industrial facility.
The horizontal three-quarter front view composition presents the compact tank engine in the left foreground with its smokestack, headlight, domes, and piping clearly visible, the side tank prominently lettered LACKAWANNA, a string of hopper cars stretching away at right, and large cylindrical storage tanks, ladders, and industrial structures forming a stark utilitarian backdrop along the yard tracks.
Rendered in a straightforward mid-20th century railroad documentary style that emphasizes industrial switching power, shop and tank scenery, and right-of-way details, the image suits collections focused on steam switchers, tank locomotives, northeastern railroads, and American railroadiana photography.
The piece is a small-format black-and-white gelatin-silver photographic print on glossy paper, the reverse bearing rubber-stamped text reading Pennsylvania, Lackawanna & Reading R. R. Co. over Russell Baum, Brass Hat / Box 251 / Sunbury, Penna., along with a small stamped letter A, a faint date stamp for June 20, 1948, and the printed number 143; Actual Measurements: Photo size 4" x 5", offered as a single loose unmounted and unframed print for album display, matting, or archival collection.
