Photograph of a group posing on the back of a railway car. It is the last car on the train. Attached to the back of the train is a sign reading, "Pacific Northwest American Legion."

Photograph of a man and woman standing in front of the American Legion Special train. This train carried passengers from Portland, Oregon to Louisville, Kentucky for the Annual National Convention of the American Legion in 1929. The man wears a suit and the woman wears a fur-lined coat. They look at the camera and smile. Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Am. Legion Spl. train to Louisville, Sept. 25, 1929."

Photograph of a group of people on the back of the American Legion Special train. This train carried passengers from Portland, Oregon to Louisville, Kentucky for the Annual National Convention of the American Legion in 1929. Everyone poses and looks at the camera. The back of the train holds a sign that reads, "Pacific Northwest American Legion." Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Spl. train, Am. Legion, Ptld-Louisville. Sept. 25, 1929."

Photograph of a group of people on the back of the American Legion Special train. This train carried passengers from Portland, Oregon to Louisville, Kentucky for the Annual National Convention of the American Legion in 1929. Everyone poses and looks at the camera. The back of the train holds a sign that reads, "Pacific Northwest American Legion." Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Am. Legion spl. train, Ptld-Louisville. Sept. 25, 1929."

Photograph of a group of people standing in front of the American Legion Special train. This train carried passengers from Portland, Oregon to Louisville, Kentucky for the Annual National Convention of the American Legion in 1929. Everyone in the group poses and looks at the camera. A Great Northern railroad car is behind them. Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Am. Legion spl. train, Ptld-Louisville. Sept. 25, 1929."

Photograph of a man leaning against the American Legion Special train. This train carried passengers from Portland, Oregon to Louisville, Kentucky for the Annual National Convention of the American Legion in 1929. The man looks at a sign on the back of the train that reads, "Pacific Northwest American Legion." Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Am. Legion spl. train, Ptld-Louisville. Sept. 25, 1929."

Photograph of a group of people on the back of the American Legion Special train. This train carried passengers from Portland, Oregon to Louisville, Kentucky for the Annual National Convention of the American Legion in 1929. Some of the passengers look at each other. The back of the train holds a sign that reads, "Pacific Northwest American Legion." Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Am. Legion Special train, Ptld-Louisville. Sept. 25, 1929."

Photograph of the Oregon Electric Railway depot at Meadowview, near Eugene, Oregon. A boxcar is parked on the tracks in front of the depot. A man pushing several large boxes with a hand truck stands in the door of the depot. Two additional men stand at the end of the depot platform beside a set of stairs. A fourth man stands beside a parked automobile at the base of the stairs. A handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Ore. Elec. Ry. depot, Meadowview, Or."

Photograph of Millen Van Hoogstraaten, conductor for the Portland Symphony Orchestra, on an exterior observation deck on the back of an Empire Builder train. Three women and the train conductor are on the deck with him. A group of people on the ground wave at them. Signs on the back of the train read, "North Coast Limited" and "Great Northern Empire Builder." Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "1929, Center, Millen Van Hoogstraaten , conductor, Ptld. sym."

Photograph of Millen Van Hoogstraaten, conductor for the Portland Symphony Orchestra, standing on a platform at a train station. He wears a trench coat and hat and carries a bag in his right hand. A train is visible behind him. Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Millen Van Hoogstraaten, 1929, conductor, Portland, Symphony."

Photograph of Millen Van Hoogstraaten, conductor for the Portland Symphony Orchestra, standing on the ground next to an Empire Builder train. He rests his elbow on the back of the train next to a sign that reads, "Great Northern Empire Builder." He wears a trench coat and looks at the camera. Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Millen Van Hoogstraaten, 1929." Stamp on the back for L.C. Jones, Photographic Laboratory.

Photograph of Millen Van Hoogstraaten, conductor for the Portland Symphony Orchestra, posing in a locomotive cab with an unidentified train engineer. Hoogstraaten, pictured on the left, stands behind the engineer. Both men look straight ahead of the locomotive as though they are driving the train. The engineer has his left hand on the controls. Hoogstraaten leans slightly out of the cab. Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "left, Millen Van Hoogstraaten, 1929." Stamp on the back for L.C. Jones.