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Railroad Speed Recorder
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George Jung, a Milwaukee Road speed recorder, comparing speed tapes from locomotives with master tapes covering the same division. The scale of the tapes is one-half inch to a mile.
March 5, 1939
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Engine #6414
1931
View of the front of the locomotive of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, engine #6414, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and purchased in 1931.
Hiawatha Engine
1939
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #10, the "Hiawatha," built by the company shop in Milwaukee. There are houses in the far background along a ridge.
CM&SP Railroad Engine
1931
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #6414, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and purchased in 1931. The train is near the 26th St. viaduct at Merrill Park.
Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Locomotive
1850
Drawing of an early locomotive that the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad rebuilt to run on the M.& M. R.R. line (which was later absorbed into the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad).
Chicago & Northwestern Locomotive
1938
A Chicago & Northwestern train crossing a railroad bridge.
