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Harrison Street Viaduct
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Rail car passing over the Harrison Street viaduct on the Wingra Park line. The line served the growing suburbs of University Heights, Oakland Heights, and Wingra Park. This car had ten bench seats running across the car and was rated as a fifty-passenger car. Such cars were extensively used for tranporting huge crowds back and forth to the circus grounds and for refreshing summer rides.
1906
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Flooded Park Street Viaduct
May 19, 1933
Flooded Park Street viaduct, with a railroad train on tracks above the viaduct. There is a car in the water under the viaduct, and a man is standing on the sidewalk on the left viewing the scene. S...
The Kinzua Viaduct
Elevated view of a train crossing the Kinzua Viaduct, a railroad trestle which spans a valley. The train appears to be parked, with one man posing on top of one of the cars and several other men po...
Streetcar Repair Shop
1910
Interior view of the repair shop of the Madison Traction Company on Fair Oaks Avenue. An open streetcar is on the ramp, with a closed car from the Wingra Park-Elmside line and a second unidentified...
Milwaukee Streetcar
June 10, 1906
View of car #466, which was then one of Milwaukee's newest streetcars. The car was put in service by TMERL about 1905 and was rebuilt as a duplex car in 1925, and finally scrapped in 1940. In 1906...
Streetcar Viaduct
1911
Elevated view across valley toward a streetcar viaduct on the Waukesha Interurban Line, near Milwaukee. Caption reads: "Street Car Bridge on Waukesha Interurban Line, Milwaukee, Wis."
Waukesha Street Railroad
May 1950
View across street of street railroad car #63. The car was built by the Cincinnati Car Co., and purchased from the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit Co. by Milwaukee Speedrail, Inc. in 1949.
