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| Description: | Exterior view of a locomotive at the Bell Center depot. Men stand on the platform. |
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| Description: | Grain elevator with large Schlitz sign. There are railroad cars on a railroad track in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "The St. Cloud district sales organization looks over the 29-car trainload of McCormick harvester-threshers bound for 47 dealers wh... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #212, also known as the Waukesha Scoot, at Milwaukee's Union Depot. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee rail yards. |
| Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, which is the first across a new bridge in Sheboygan. There is a group of people standing near ... |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered railroad tracks towards Wisconsin Central's locomotive #4002. Industrial buildings are sending steam or smoke through smokestacks ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A Chicago & Northwestern train crossing a railroad bridge. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men load I-12 tractors onto a train at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of industrial buildings identified as smelting furnaces. A railroad train and railroad track runs the length of the foreground of the image a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Located in West Milwaukee. Trains, cars, tracks, and railroad buildings. The view is taken from the top of a building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, with other tracks sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the background, ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
| 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: | Evelyth, a rapidly growing mining city, began exporting its iron ore in 1884. |
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| Description: | Two trains transporting taconite from Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Ore Mine, part of the Mesabi Iron Range, discovered in 1866. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad cars transporting iron ore from the Mesabi Iron Range, once important because of the discovery of hematite, and then for its larg... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on the railroad tracks. There are locomotives and railroad cars on the tracks. Some children are standing on the tracks near t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a train yard with six sets of railroad tracks and large wooden buildings. A nearby neighborhood is visible in the background. Caption read... |
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