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Publication Information
| Date Created | circa 1830-1839 |
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Physical Description
| Format | Image |
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Collection Information
Copyright Information
| Copyright Status | NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES |
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| Rights Holder | Wisconsin Historical Society |
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The First Passenger Train in Michigan
circa 1830-1839
Locomotive with coal car and one passenger car passing through rural landscape. People wave from a log cabin and a horse-drawn vehicle in the background and a man cutting down trees in a field wave...
Soo Line Tracks
August 1988
"For nostalgia, a steam locomotive made a run on the Soo Line tracks."
Train on Bridge
View of one of the first locomotives of the Fox River Valley, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad on a wooden trestle over a wetland. The locomotive has brass trim and pulls a wood car.
Locomotive Pulling Group of People on Railroad Cars
View toward a large group of people posing on railroad cars and the locomotive on tracks. Caption reads: "Dummy Leaving Pertle Springs, MO." A man holding a dummy can be seen in the second window ...
Depot and Train
View down tracks towards a locomotive pulling a passenger train into the depot. A conductor stands in an open door. Another conductor and passengers stand on the platform. There are freight cars st...
Train Arriving at the Depot
The station at Sylvan Beach was essential in providing transportation to central New York's recreational resort area. Caption reads: "Train Time. Sylvan Beach, N.Y."
