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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 from bottom of snowy hill looking up towards the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad engine #3, which was purchased from the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #6414, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and purchased in 1931. The train is near the 26th... |
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| Description: | CB&N Railroad locomotive entering town. Railroad station in center. |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A group of men carrying lunch boxes are walking away from a steam engine train, which is near another train and power lines. |
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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 railroad cars transporting iron ore from the Mesabi Iron Range, once important because of the discovery of hematite, and then for its larg... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, established in 1830. The city's dwellings and establishments can be seen on a hillside from the railroa... |
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| Description: | Train departing the Chaseburg depot, with steam coming out of the smokestack. There are buildings along the tracks, and in the background is a bluff. |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view from bluff. Far below is Main Street and the Mississippi River. The Bay State House facade can be seen among the buildings lining Main Stre... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the De Soto depot. A locomotive, blowing steam, is approaching the platform, where a small group of people waits to board. A boxcar on the... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Several men pose while standing alongside a train at the Elroy depot. |
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| Description: | View from steep bank of a large group of men posed standing with shovels by a railroad train with flat cars covered with sand or dirt. Man of the men are h... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Mazomanie. The church's steeple stands out in the landscape of houses and barns. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of Norwalk looking down from a hill. Farm fields and forests surround the town. |
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| Description: | View across snow between two sets of railroad tracks towards the Readstown Depot on a winter's day. Two trains facing in opposite directions are on the lef... |
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