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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The Soo line roundhouse. Caption reads: "Soo Round House, Abbottsford, Wis." |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee rail yards. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad yards and station. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards and Station, Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of railroad trains and cars parked in a railroad yard. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad station looking west. A bridge over the river is in the foreground, and a large water tower is across the railroad tracks on ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Clockwise from upper left images include: Cutters Point, Long Lake, Wis.; M.E. Church, New Auburn, Wis.; Farmers Store, New Auburn, Wis.; Public School, Ne... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Special train from Spooner, Wisconsin, to Union Meeting at St. Paul, Minnesota. Group portrait of men posing on and around the locomotive. A young girl is ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Bridge and rail yard near an International Harvester branch house in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The branch house building is in the distance. |
| 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: | West Milwaukee. Elevated view of tracks, trains, and buildings. A train roundhouse is located in the background. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Nighttime image of the Depot and yard. Back of station, tracks, and a couple of trains are visible, as well as some of the buildings of Milwaukee in the ba... |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man in a suit and hat is standing on the side of a train engine in a train yard. Railroad employees can be seen in and on the train, and a group of men a... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad shops. View of train yard where many trains and cars are parked. Caption at top left reads: "Nort... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A man in an International Model M truck parked in a railroad yard beside a freight train. In the background is a locomotive and a refrigerator car. The tra... |
| 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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