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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
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| Description: | View along right side of shoreline toward a Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul train crossing a bridge over the Wisconsin River. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the Soo Line railroad bridge crossing the Tomahawk River at Bradley, Wisconsin. The bridge, built in 1886, was 126 ft. long and... |
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| Description: | View of a passenger train coming down the tracks at the Horseshoe Curve. Rock Springs was called Ableman until 1947. |
| Date: | 09 01 1882 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the special train of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad comprised of 24 freight cars loaded with lumber and other ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Kilbourn Bridge at the Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. A locomotive is pulling railroad cars over the bridge. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Pontoon Bridge. Caption reads: "Largest Pontoon Bridge in the U.S. Scene at the Tri Cities, North and South McGergor and Prairie du Chien.... |
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| Description: | View of a railroad bridge with a train crossing it. A man can be seen standing on the ground next to the bridge. Caption reads: "R.R. Bridge At Fox Gulch, ... |
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| Description: | Train station in the distance, with a man standing in the foreground on steps leading down to the lake, near a fenced-in pond. On the left are railroad tra... |
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| Description: | A monument to David Thompson, a British explorer and geographer. The base of the monument reads, "1770 David Thompson 1857 Geographer and Astronomer Passed... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Washington Bridge, crossing over numerous railroad tracks. In the foreground is a train engine, dwellings, and a dilapidated brick str... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of city, including miners' homes set in the hills, and in the foreground railroad tracks and numerous cars parked along the street in front o... |
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| Description: | View looking up at the Marent trestle, part of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A train carrying passenger cars passes over the 228 foot high trestle, and a ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of passengers boarding a train at Williamstown Railroad Station, built in 1898 on North Hoosac Road and Cole Avenue. Railroad service started... |
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| Description: | The Arkville Train Station was a stop on the Deleware and Ulster Railroad. |
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| Description: | Evelyth, a rapidly growing mining city, began exporting its iron ore in 1884. |
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| Description: | The Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company, the owners of the rights to Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, was created in 1902. |
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| Description: | Two trains transporting taconite from Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Ore Mine, part of the Mesabi Iron Range, discovered in 1866. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of steam shovels at work, removing taconite from Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, functioning as an open cast mine because of its soft, shallo... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad cars transporting iron ore from the Mesabi Iron Range, once important because of the discovery of hematite, and then for its larg... |
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