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Truck and Train Crash
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People watching railroad workers attempting to extricate the bodies of three men who died under the wheels of the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive when it hit a Wisconsin Telephone Company truck.
November 5, 1930
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Truck and Train Crash
November 5, 1930
Men looking at a crushed Wisconsin Telephone Company truck as the result of an accident with the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive.
Truck and Train Crash
November 5, 1930
People looking at the train cars and undamaged front end of the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck involved in the Milwaukee Road passenger train-truck accident.
Train-Car Crash Scene
March 5, 1933
Train-car crash scene. Shows demolished automobile and large group of onlookers at Milwaukee Road, Fair Oaks railroad crossing. The driver, Miss Lena Schmidt was killed.
Damaged Truck
June 22, 1935
A Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train near the Brittingham Park crossing, Greenbush. Thomas Haney, truck driver, was seriously injured. A man is standi...
Truck Wreck
June 22, 1935
A crowd of people viewing the remains of a Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train, near the Brittingham Park crossing, in the Greenbush neighborhood. Thom...
Car Wreck, East Johnson Street
August 27, 1934
Two men are looking at a damaged automobile belonging to Elmer Meixner, DeForest, after a collision with a Milwaukee Road train at the East Johnson Street crossing.
