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Flatbed Rail Car Loaded with MEC&MC Crane Parts
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A flatbed rail car, possibly on the packing floor at the Milwaukee Electric Crane Co., loaded with trolleys, motors, cases, and other parts needed to assemble various Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company cranes. The sign on the crane reads "Milwaukee Electric Crane & Mfg. Co., Incorporated, Milwaukee, Wis." and "Stone & Webster, Incorporated, Engineers-Builders, Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco." The freight car is from the C.&N.W. Railway.
circa 1890-1899
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