Photograph
Roundhouse and Wood Burning Locomotives
| "The West Wisconsin Railway roundhouse at Eau Claire, ca. 1872. It was located about a mile north of the present Civic Center. Workmen in the foreground are building a new turntable to replace the earlier one, often call the "gallows." Locomotives in the stalls are Baldwin wood burners, all 4-4-0s, built in 1871. Headed out of stall 7, to the left, is engine No. 12 the "Geo. W. Clinton"; the engine headed into stall 6, with its tender missing and the main rods down, is engine No. 14, names for "Matt W. Carpenter"; and backed into stall 3 is engine No. 10, named the "D.A. Baldwin." Baldwin was one of the incorporators in 1871, of the St. Paul, Stillwater & Taylors Falls Railway. These engines all carried their same numbers even when they were taken over a few years later by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha in 1878." |
| Image ID: | 2012 |
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| Creation Date: | 1878 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
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| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Album 38 (Railroads --Select Early Photos mostly from the Carl R. Gray, Jr. Collection) |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | Album 38.42 |
| Original Dimensions: | 9 x 6.75 inches |
| This image is one of many photographs of trains and railroad industry held by the Society. The caption information was taken from Malcolm Rosholt's book "Trains of Wisconsin," 1985. |
| Locomotives |
| Roundhouses (Railroads) |
| Railroad employees |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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