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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b... |
| Date: | 05 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wreck of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad freight train. The derailment is so severe that the train station has been knocked off... |
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| Description: | Derailment of a Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault St. Marie Railway train near Waupaca. A large crowd is gathered on an overpass to watch the Soo Line's Wrec... |
| Date: | 05 24 1912 |
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| Description: | Wreck of a Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie Railroad train on a bridge over the Black River near Withee. The damage is so severe that the cars have ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Kickapoo & Northern Railway locomotive and cars seen here after being derailed due to flooding on the Kickapoo River. |
| Date: | 10 1891 |
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| Description: | The wreckage of a head-on collision of two Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains at Tramway. Men stand near and on top of the railroad cars... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Tank car wreck at the Grand Trunk Western Railroad car ferry docks. A man wearing a hat is in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Railroad wreck on the W.U. Road, Beloit, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people standing around the engine of "Soo Line" wreck in winter. |
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| Description: | View through fence looking towards the train wreck of "Soo Line". The engine is leaning off the track. Snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of train wreck of Soo Line. There is a box car off the train tracks, with other wreckage in background. There is some snow along the right si... |
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| Description: | Soo Line Train wreck with large crane pulling up damaged train engine. Snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | Soo Line train wreck. People are standing on and around the train wreckage. |
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| Description: | Soo Line train wreck, with two men standing near box car wreckage. |
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| Description: | Soo Line train wreck. Four men are working on the tracks near an overturned box car. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Soo Line train wreck. There are railroad tracks with overturned cars, and people standing around. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar back on the track from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Police and trainmen for the Northwestern Railroad removing the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Thompson (Alice) from their truck, which collided with a N... |
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