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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... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | At the De Pere depot, the first train operated by the Milwaukee & Northern Railway. This train made its first run to Green Bay on June 25, 1873, and this p... |
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| Description: | View across multiple sets of railroad tracks towards two locomotives at a railroad city yard in Milwaukee (probably the Hiawatha). There is a dense cloud o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a train arriving at the station. The train station is full of people and there is a horse-drawn carriage next to the building. |
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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: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the national parks of the western United States and Canada, as well as promoting train travel. The poster depicts a creek... |
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| Description: | A train sits in the Saint Paul & Des Moines train depot while people gather nearby. Text on train reads: "St. P. & D.M. R.R.," "53", "Des Moines Iowa Falls... |
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| Description: | A train is parked in Chicago & North Western depot while people and horse-drawn vehicles gather nearby. Caption reads: "C. & N.W. Depot, Nevada, Iowa." |
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| Description: | View of the Santa Fe demonstration train traveling through the countryside. A sign on the train reads: "A.T. & S.F." "3009" and "048." Caption reads: "Sant... |
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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: | View of the Tanana Mine Railway train parked in a wooded area. Text on what appears to be a passenger car reads: "T.M.W." Caption reads: "Fairbanks, Alaska... |
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| Description: | View looking up at the Marent trestle, part of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A train carrying passenger cars passes over the 228 foot high trestle, and a ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a train crossing the Kinzua Viaduct, a railroad trestle which spans a valley. The train appears to be parked, with one man posing on top o... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people at a railroad platform near the "Imperial train" used by the Root Commission as they traveled through Russia. |
| Date: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | Men standing near the Imperial train carrying members of the Root Commission at a railroad station. Original caption reads: "General Horwaeth, chief of Rus... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men standing at a train station in Harbin, Russia (now China). Original caption identifies the men as follows: "Dr. Mott, Mr. Moran, Mr. [?] (YMCA Gen'l Se... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a long coat belted at the waist, and a cap, is standing on a platform. The original caption identifies the man as a "Buryat prince." In the b... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A bearded man wearing a hat and boots is standing near a passenger train. On the left is a woman with a young girl looking on. The original caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Senator Elihu Root addressing Russian soldiers at Perm. Root is standing near the Imperial train that carried members of the Root Commission. |
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