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Short Train at Rice Lake
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A Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad engine pulling a pay car. Identified employees include: (left to right) brakeman E.W. Sweet and fireman Callen on the running board. The original print is from the collection of railroad historian Carl R. Gray, whose papers are available at the Historical Society Archives.
1890
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Madison Roundhouse
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Locomotive #280 at the Madison roundhouse. Identified railroad employees posed outdoors with the locomotive include: fireman Omro B. Mills on the gangway, and (left to...
Wisconsin Central Caboose
Brakeman Clarence Commingore (left) and Philip C. Haag on Wisconsin Central Railroad's caboose No #171. The shield caboose markers were exclusive with the Wisconsin Central.
Railroad Construction
1890
Men building a culvert on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Westerm railway. In the background both horses and oxen teams are being used.
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway
July 20, 1886
Group of people posing in the rail yard of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha Railway.
Head-On Train Collision
October 1891
The wreckage of a head-on collision of two Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains at Tramway. Men stand near and on top of the railroad cars. In the foreground is a field and fence, ...
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad
1884
View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large homes are on a hill in the background.
