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| 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: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Men unloading trucks at the Railway Express Agency terminal at 11th Avenue and 42nd Street. The original caption reads: "Railway Express Agency terminal at... |
| 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: | 1936 |
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| Description: | An International Model C-35 is parked near a building. To the right men are working on a locomotive for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The front of another... |
| Date: | 07 15 1915 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 1248, class I5, built by the company's shop in 1912. From left to right are waymaster Harvey Gi... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks, showing the switching station, water tank, and buildings. Two men stand on the railroad tracks. Ester Point is near Cassville, W... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down tracks towards man standing in front of the Union Depot. There is a "Seeds Feed" sign on a building in the background. In the foreground is a lam... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards passengers, a large group of men and one young girl, waiting on the platform at the train station for the train to arri... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Railroad workers posing in front of locomotive Engine No. 1224 at Stowell Station. From left to right are Fireman John F. Fohey, yardmaster John Rice, Waym... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, railroad workers, fixing the wooden railroad ties. In the background are railroad cars on another set of railroad tracks.m |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Switchman standing at the switch next to railroad tracks cut through a rock formation. Another man is standing on top of the rock formation on the left. In... |
| Date: | 11 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a locomotive pulling a railroad car with a sign painted on the side that reads: "Illinois Northern Ry." The railroad engineer is... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks looking towards a long line of railroad cars on another set of tracks. The large banners on the side of some of the cars reads: "... |
| Date: | 08 02 1957 |
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| Description: | North Western Railroad employees demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard, at Commercial and Sherman Avenues, on their second attemp... |
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