Date: | 01 18 1940 |
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Description: | Elevated view of railroad yard, with engines and cars on some of the tracks. Smoke is billowing out from many of the engines, covering much of the yard. Bu... |
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Description: | Front view of three trains in a snow-filled train yard. The middle train is an old-fashioned steam engine flanked by more modern trains. Three men are stan... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | A man in a suit and hat is standing on the side of a train engine in a train yard. Railroad employees can be seen in and on the train, and a group of men a... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | A Wisconsin Central Railroad locomotive with Engine #42 hauling lumber from Antigo Lumber Company. |
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Description: | Schematic drawing of the Rocket Locomotive Engine of 1829 made by R. Stephenson and Company, Engineers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad locomotive no. 1, the Menomonee at a station with four people standing nearby. |
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Description: | View of one of the first locomotives of the Fox River Valley, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad on a wooden trestle over a wetland. The locomotive has brass ... |
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Description: | Woodcut image of the first steam passenger train ever run in the United States. The locomotive pulls a wood car and two passenger cars. |
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: | 1883 |
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Description: | CM&StP Railway locomotive no. 71 and a coal car at a roundhouse. |
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 ... |
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Description: | The Illinois Central Railroad Station and train in Fitchburg. There is snow on the ground, and men and women are waiting outside the depot on the platform.... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Allis-Chalmers plant showing several trains on the tracks next to a large industrial building. The steam engine tender in front of the loc... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | An original colored poster celebrating the Milwaukee Road's 90 years of progress. The poster features three photographs of locomotive engines, ranging in t... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Front cover of the 70th Anniversary (1868-1938) John A. Salzer Seed Co. catalog featuring a colorful mix of pansies and a quotation from Shakespeare. The a... |
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Description: | Color postcard view of the railroad locomotive used in a famous Civil War incident, which was later retold in Buster Keaton's motion picture The General... |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | A man in an International Model M truck parked in a railroad yard beside a freight train. In the background is a locomotive and a refrigerator car. The tra... |
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Description: | Elevated view of a peach orchard and packing house. The roof of a building is in the foreground. Railroad tracks on the left run through the orchard, and a... |
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Description: | The station at Sylvan Beach was essential in providing transportation to central New York's recreational resort area. Caption reads: "Train Time. Sylvan Be... |
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