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The First Passenger Train in Michigan
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Locomotive with coal car and one passenger car passing through rural landscape. People wave from a log cabin and a horse-drawn vehicle in the background and a man cutting down trees in a field waves in the foreground.
circa 1830-1839
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WHi 61973
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First Steam Passenger Train
circa 1830-1839
Woodcut image of the first steam passenger train ever run in the United States. The locomotive pulls a wood car and two passenger cars.
Train Spooking Horses
1948
Drawing of a passenger train approaching a small town where two teams of horses on a plank road appear to be startled by the noise of the locomotive. One team of horses pulls a stage coach and the ...
Green Bay Depot
1901
View down platform towards a locomotive pulling a Green Bay & Western Railroad train at the Green Bay depot, with a Snavely omnibus parked at the platform ready to pick up passengers for the Beaumo...
Chicago & North Western Depot
A train is parked in Chicago & North Western depot while people and horse-drawn vehicles gather nearby. Caption reads: "C. & N.W. Depot, Nevada, Iowa."
Railroad Depot
Exterior view of a railroad depot. Men and women gathered on and near the tracks to board trains. Published by Quillin Bros. Druggists.
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Train with Locomotive
1870
Slightly elevated view of a Chicago & Northwestern Railway train at a depot in an unidentified town. The railroad station is behind the train. On the right, porters stand on the platform at the ent...
