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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... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #10, the "Hiawatha," built by the company shop in Milwaukee. There are houses in the far background along a ri... |
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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: | 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 ... |
| 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... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men and a police officer stand beside the "Pioneer," an early Chicago and Northwestern Railroad locomotive which is parked beside the Sauk County Court... |
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| Description: | View from below of wood burning locomotive and single car on elevated railroad bridge and approach trestle, somewhere along the upper Mississippi River. La... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of a locomotive pulling into a railroad depot and yards. The depot is a two-story building. Two wagons are parked near the depot ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the railroad yard. Across an empty yard where a few large pipes lay, a locomotive with smoking stack and cars is on railroad track... |
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| Description: | A steam locomotive moves along a set of railroad tracks near a sugar beet processing plant with a tall smokestack. There are several small outbuildings in ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Smoke rises from a steam engine pushing (or pulling) a freight train. There are bent rails and snow in the ditch. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Train at Coon Valley depot. Several men stand on the platform. The depot has a water tank. There are advertisements for Pearl White Soap, the inter-state f... |
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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: | View down railroad tracks of a train at the Darlington depot. A group of men are on the platform. |
| 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: | 02 01 1959 |
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| Description: | "Train derailment. Photo taken from North Pole Road. Hwy 28 can be seen in the distance (left)." |
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