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Lumber Camp

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Description: Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs.
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Train Wreck

Date: 1900
Description: Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls.
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Train Crossing a Bridge

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Description: A freight train makes its way across a bridge over a dam on the Black River.
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Two Men with Steam Tractor

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Description: Two men operating a steam tractor/donkey used to haul logs. Piles of logs are stacked behind them.
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Train Pulling Large Logs

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Description: A train pulls a load of very large tree trunks. Several men stand between the large logs.
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Men Working on Tipped Train Cars

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Description: A panoramic view of many men gathered on the railroad tracks on an embankment, working to up-right train cars that have tipped over. On the right is a loco...
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Lumberyard with railroad lines and a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in McKenna.
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York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view of York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace and pig iron stock piles. The boardinghouse is visible on the hill in the far background.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ...
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Railroad Bridge

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Description: View looking up towards a locomotive and five railroad cars on a railroad bridge crossing a river.
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Railroad Bridge Over River

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Description: Elevated view looking across river of a railroad train on a railroad bridge crossing a river. On the rocks in the foreground below is a man fishing with a ...
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Copy Photograph; Train Cars Loaded with Tree Trunks

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Description: Copy photograph of a steam train pulling railroad cars loaded with large trees.
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Dam and Railroad Bridge with Passing Train

Date: 1908
Description: View of the dam in front of Black River Falls with several wooden structures in the background, and a train passing on the railroad bridge over the river.
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Reconstruction after the 1911 Flood

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Description: View of a construction site, with a ditch in the foreground. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black...
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Sand Haulers at Town Creek

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Description: View towards men standing by a line of sand haulers on a railway. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in ...
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Derailed Locomotive

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Description: View down railroad tracks towards the front of a locomotive tipped sideways on the set of railroad tracks on the right. On the left set of railroad tracks ...
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Derailed Locomotive

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Description: A group of men, some with shovels, are working near the front of a locomotive that has derailed. There is a pile of sacks in the background on the right. A...
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Train at a Depot

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Description: View down platform towards a train at a depot, with several people on the wooden platform.
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Locomotives in a Train Yard

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Description: View down center of railroad tracks towards a train yard, showing several trains with locomotives. A man is standing near a building on the right has a sig...
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Train Crossing a Bridge

Date: 1903
Description: View towards a train coming over a bridge. Identified as a railroad bridge in Black River Falls after 1903.

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