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| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad depot. A train rests at the stop while commuters wait to board from the platform. There is a horse to the right... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of a busy scene at the train depot. A train is arriving at the crowded platform. On the side of the depot a man sits on a cart, n... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 812, class G5, built by Schenectady Locomotive Works in December of 1890. There is a device on the right ... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1079, class J2. The engineer was Philip Currie and the fireman was Edward C. McNeill. The third man in th... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1155, class I4, built by the company's shop in 1901. Posing in front of the engine from left to right, ar... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A print depicts activity around the three-story, wood frame Geneva Flouring Mills. Horse-drawn wagons, pedestrians, and a boy rolling a hoop create a busy ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with five engines bucking snow on the Soo Line. Between January 21 and 22, 1917, 9" of snow fell with drifts up to 11.5 feet covering western ... |
| Date: | 02 1936 |
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| Description: | Winter scene featuring a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul train from the front with snow thrower attached to the engine. Smoke billows to the right and power l... |
| Date: | 02 15 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated winter scene with men shoveling out a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train about 3.5 miles north of Ripon. The locomotive is in the backg... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a group of men, many holding shovels, standing on the left watching a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train pushing through snow, somewher... |
| Date: | 08 31 1928 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the left side of a Chicago Great Western locomotive on railroad tracks pulling cars loaded with Farmall tractors. A sign on the l... |
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| Description: | A woman stands next to a locomotive on display behind a fence at House on the Rock. This image was included in the attraction's brochure. The sign on the t... |
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