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| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View towards a train at the Kilbourn City (now known as Wisconsin Dells) railroad depot, with a crowd of people on the platform. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Milwaukee Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway station. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A canon is in the foreground to the left. There are a number of pedestrians in the park and on the path by the lake. In the background on the left is a tra... |
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| Description: | Schematic drawing of the Rocket Locomotive Engine of 1829 made by R. Stephenson and Company, Engineers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
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| Description: | Side view of Gaylord Nelson speaking from a train caboose while on the campaign trail during a whistle stop tour. |
| Date: | 07 27 1938 |
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| Description: | Interior of a rail car powered by an International PA-100 power unit. The car was owned by the Rapid City, Black Hills, and Western Rail Road line. |
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| Description: | Two men loading boxes of batteries onto railroad cars with a conveyor belt. French Battery later became Ray-O-Vac Corporation. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View down platform towards a C. M. & St. Paul train at the depot. A few men are standing on the platform. There is a water tower just behind the depot, and... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View across intersection toward a brick auditorium building. A man sits on the steps of the main entrance while others walk on the sidewalk. Three men in c... |
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| Description: | View down cobblestone street toward a girl standing on the steps of the front entrance of a railroad station. Railroad cars on the left of the station are ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a train stopped at the North Philadelphia depot, surrounded by various industrial buildings, including the International Harvester Company... |
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| Description: | A crowd of children and adults gathers on an elevated boardwalk outside Island Heights Railroad Station, built around 1883. |
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| Description: | View down railroad platform of crowd of people waiting at the Ridgewood Depot, built in 1916 by architects W.W. Drinker and Frank A. Howard. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A bird's-eye view illustration of the Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company. The company was founded in 1895 by four Madison businessmen, Conrad M. Con... |
| Date: | 07 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraved illustration depicting Frank Lenz sitting on the edge of a railroad bridge holding his safety bicycle in front of him and his box camera on his ba... |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Locomotive No. 16, built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1882, and scrapped in 1910. Spe... |
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| Description: | Group of children standing in front of a hospital train in Lodz listening to a gramophone set up to play music while the train was in the station. |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | At the crossing at Monroe and Regent Streets, the flagman activates warning lights before the stopped Illinois-Central train proceeds across the crossing. ... |
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