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| Description: | Close-up of a group of men cleaning up the wreck of a train. Pieces of railroad cars are in piles of dirt. A railroad car is on the right. A town is in the... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the front of a locomotive tipped sideways on the set of railroad tracks on the right. On the left set of railroad tracks ... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a large group of people standing near the wreck of a train. Railroad cars have fallen over to the left of the tracks. Two... |
| Date: | 04 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Onlookers stand near a Milwaukee Road switch engine and two boxcars derailed near the East Johnson Street crossing of the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 08 10 1934 |
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| Description: | A large group of people stands around the covered body of H.C. Townley, Oregon school teacher, killed by a Milwaukee Road freight train, at the University ... |
| Date: | 06 21 1948 |
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| Description: | Chicago Northwestern Railroad tracks and train crossing Monona Bay, the site of an accident in which Harry R. Frankey, 112 South Henry Street, was killed i... |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "Heavy-duty moving equipment from Michels Pipeline of Brownsville helped to move derailed cars back onto the tracks. Within 27 hours, all cars were righted... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of train cars that have fallen off the railroad tracks, with men working nearby. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad cars that have fallen off the railroad tracks. Two men are crawling on top of the toppled railroad cars. |
| Date: | 03 05 1933 |
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| Description: | Train-car crash scene. Shows demolished automobile and large group of onlookers at Milwaukee Road, Fair Oaks railroad crossing. The driver, Miss Lena Schmi... |
| Date: | 10 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Bus and street railroad accident at Regent and Mills Streets looking east along Regent Street. The DuBois service station at 1 N. Mills Street is in the ba... |
| Date: | 03 23 1934 |
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| Description: | Crowd standing on the Thornton Avenue bank of the Yahara River at the Milwaukee Road railroad bridge looking at a car-train accident scene where Mrs. Clark... |
| Date: | 03 23 1934 |
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| Description: | Crowd standing on the Thornton Avenue bank of the Yahara River at the Milwaukee Road railroad bridge looking at a car-train accident scene where Mrs. Clark... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Northwestern Line railroad accident. Railroad cars have fallen off the railroad tracks and the engine car is lying on its side. Men and ... |
| Date: | 06 22 1935 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people viewing the remains of a Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train, near the Brittingham Park cro... |
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| Description: | A panoramic view of many men gathered on the railroad tracks on an embankment, working to up-right train cars that have tipped over. On the right is a loco... |
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