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Crossroads

Date: 1904
Description: View of crossroads where the street meets the railroad tracks. Adults and children are standing to the left next to a train.
Photograph

Story Book Land Train

Date: 06 1956
Description: Elevated view of Fairy Godmother with kids on Story Book Land train.
Drawing

Locomotive Menomonee

Date: 1886
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad locomotive no. 1, the Menomonee at a station with four people standing nearby.
Print

Railroad Mail Delivery

Date: 1876
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...
Photograph

People Boarding Train at Lancaster Train Station

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Description: Group of people posing on platform at train station next to train.
Photograph

Santa Fe Demonstration Train

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Description: View of the Santa Fe demonstration train number 3009. Spectators are around the train. A sign on the train reads: "A.T. & S.F." and "Santa Fe Type Mallet A...
Photograph

Santa Fe Demonstration Train #3009

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Description: A crowd is shown gathered near the Santa Fe demonstration train #3009. A sign on the front of the locomotive reads: "3009" and an American flag is on the f...
Photograph

Tanana Valley Railroad

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Description: Several men and a child stand near a train equipped with a snow plow. A passenger car sits nearby, and three men, possibly railroad employees, stand on the...
Postcard

Kiddie Train at the Vilas Park Zoo

Date: 1960
Description: Colorful locomotive pulling several cars full of children at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). Although referred to as the "Kiddie Train," the caption ...
Photograph

German Refugees

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Description: A snapshot of postwar refugees in Berlin traveling by railroad boxcar.
Postcard

Train Making a Stop at the Breed Station

Date: 1943
Description: Photographic postcard of a train stopped at the Chicago & North West railroad station. A small group of people stand in the grass waiting beside the tracks...
Photograph

Train at Springbank Park

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Description: View of a miniature train with children and their parents as passengers at Springbank Park, founded in the late nineteenth century.
Photograph

Island Heights Railroad Station

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Description: A crowd of children and adults gathers on an elevated boardwalk outside Island Heights Railroad Station, built around 1883.
Photograph

Ridgewood Depot

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Description: View down railroad platform of crowd of people waiting at the Ridgewood Depot, built in 1916 by architects W.W. Drinker and Frank A. Howard.
Photograph

Barnegat Railroad Station

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Description: Exterior view of Barnegat Railroad Station. A locomotive is in front of the platform, and children and adults stand near the railroad tracks.
Photograph

Southern Pacific Railroad Station

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Description: View down railroad tracks of passengers arriving at Southern Pacific Railroad Station, built around 1880. Published by Lola B. Tomlinson.
Photograph

Railroad Yards

Date: 1926
Description: View along railroad tracks towards the Merrillan depot and train. The Hotel Campbell is located on the left. A group of children and adults are sitting out...
Photograph

Depot and Train

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Description: View down tracks towards a locomotive pulling a passenger train into the depot. A conductor stands in an open door. Another conductor and passengers stand ...
Photograph

Circus World Train

Date: 07 05 1972
Description: View of local residents standing in the grass watching the Circus World Museum Train pass through Elroy and Union Center. The train, which did not normally...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

New Parents with Orphan

Date: 04 30 1909
Description: Newspaper clipping titled: "The Little Darling" shows a couple holding an orphan train child as two other women look on.

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