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| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | People looking at the train cars and undamaged front end of the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck involved in the Milwaukee Road passenger train-truck acci... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people standing around the engine of "Soo Line" wreck in winter. |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Police and trainmen for the Northwestern Railroad removing the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Thompson (Alice) from their truck, which collided with a N... |
| Date: | 09 15 1907 |
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| Description: | View of the train wreck which occurred September 15th. The locomotive lies on its side with a damaged passenger car. Caption reads: "The wreck at Canaan, N... |
| Date: | 03 27 1908 |
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| Description: | View of the train wreck of the Wells Fargo Express, March 27th. Several men sit on the wreckage, and several other men and a women are nearby. Captionh rea... |
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| Description: | View of the aftermath of a train wreck that left one locomotive on top of another. A small group of men stand in the snow along the tracks near the wreck. ... |
| Date: | 06 21 1900 |
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| Description: | A crowd of men gather around a wrecked Chicago and North-Western train. |
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| Description: | Men pose around the remains of runaway train Engine No. 80 after it crashed and the boiler exploded on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway. |
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| Description: | A collision of a freight train with an excursion train on the Chicago and North Western Railway, resulting in six deaths and at least 46 people injured. |
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| Description: | Four men pose next to a locomotive, which has a hole in its side due to an explosion. |
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| Description: | View of a people walking on railroad tracks near a derailed train. |
| Date: | 05 30 1941 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from bank of workmen gathered at the site of a train derailment. The man in suit and hat at far left is identified as a police offic... |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road locomotive 5508 resting on its side after a derailment. The engine struck the rail, seen in center foreground, which had been driven upright... |
| Date: | 09 16 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Freight Cars Wrecked at Sheridan, Wis." A group of people are posing with a line of severely derailed and damaged railroad cars. |
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