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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Central Railroad passenger depot at Stuntz Avenue. A group of people stand on the platform and near the locomotive between t... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Ticket for a one way trip in 1976 from Madison, Wisconsin, to New York City via the Milwaukee Road. The ticket cost $71.73. |
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| Description: | Engine #7 of the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad, which was purchased in 1917, seen here at Scott Siding, Wisconsin. The known railroad employees in the pict... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the pile-pontoon railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien. The bridge was built and patented by John Lawler in 187... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Drawing of an early locomotive that the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad rebuilt to run on the M.& M. R.R. line (which was later absorbed into the Chicag... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway locomotive no. 186, a class G-5 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1892, on service on the La Crosse Division... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Stage Company Pass belonging to Reverend Kemper. The pass bear engravings of a train and a stage coach. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway locomotive no. 40, called the L.B. Rock, at the Chestnut Street yards. The mast of a ship is visible in the background, and ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha train cars loading onto car ferry Pere Marquette. |
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| Description: | Two men loading boxes of batteries onto railroad cars with a conveyor belt. French Battery later became Ray-O-Vac Corporation. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Cripple Creek Short Line Railroad and a train winding through the mountains. |
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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: | Elevated view of a crowd of people at the Monticello branch of the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Station, added in 1889. |
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| Description: | The Callicoon Depot was constructed after the completion of the Erie Railroad Station in 1848. Caption reads: "Erie Depot, Callicoon, N.Y." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | New Union Railroad Station, a stop of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, was completed in the early 1840's. |
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| Description: | The passenger depot of the International Great Northern Railroad formed on September 30, 1873, by the consolidation of the International Railroad Company a... |
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| Description: | Originally known as Arizona & Southeastern Railroad, the El Paso and South-Western Railway was built in 1888. The Jarilla Junction was renamed 'Orogrande,... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Originally known as the Cincinnati and Eastern Railway, the Norfolk and Western Railroad received its new name in October 1901. Caption reads: "N. & W. R.R... |
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