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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: | 09 01 1882 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the special train of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad comprised of 24 freight cars loaded with lumber and other ... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the Fairchild & Northeastern steam locomotive pulling a load of logs over the Black River bridge near Greenwood. A man is standing o... |
| Date: | 05 18 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the first passenger train to arrive at Merrill, a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway train. The passengers are waiting on a platform an... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot surrounded by stacked lumber for wood-burning locomotives. A few homes can be seen in the background. |
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| Description: | Four women workers standing in front of the Four Wheel Drive Factory. |
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| Description: | Woman worker with her back turned to the camera standing in front of the Clintonville Four Wheel Drive factory. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men load I-12 tractors onto a train at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany. |
| Date: | 03 09 1927 |
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| Description: | A train carrying tractors stopped on its way from Milwaukee Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A shipment of sisal leaves at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "A train load of sisal leaves coming into t... |
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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: | Two men loading boxes of batteries onto railroad cars with a conveyor belt. French Battery later became Ray-O-Vac Corporation. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over a freight train of the Nutrena Feeds factory. |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards approaching trains. Men are walking across the tracks in the foreground at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Ars... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lehigh Valley train yard with trains, cars full of goods, railroad workers and shops. One of the buildings features two large smokestacks. |
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| Description: | View of a train passing over the W. & G.N. wooden railroad bridge which spans a mountain pass. Lumber is in the valley below. Caption reads: "W. & G.N. Br... |
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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,... |
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| Description: | Evelyth, a rapidly growing mining city, began exporting its iron ore in 1884. |
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| Description: | A train sending out a shipment of taconite from the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine. |
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