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Railroad Car Library
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Public Library housed in a stationary railroad car in Adams, WI. The train car was a gift from F. W. Sargent of the North Western Road at the request of Mrs. J. F. Duncan and Mrs. Pearly Bennett of the Adams Library Association. Mrs. Hazel Fease worked to make the train car into a subscription library.
circa 1930-1939
Newhouse, John
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WHi 42938
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Railroad coach, without wheels, gives adams nontraveling library
Oct 30, 1938
Milwaukee Journal
Railroad Crossing
October 10, 1939
Railroad crossing, also showing the main street and the train depot.
Highway Bridge Over Railroad Tracks
November 16, 1939
Highway bridge on USH 41 with a train pulled by locomotive #496 traveling under the span.
Truck and Train Crash
November 5, 1930
People looking at the train cars and undamaged front end of the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck involved in the Milwaukee Road passenger train-truck accident.
Green Bay & Western Railroad Roundhouse
1930
Elevated view of the Green Bay & Western Railroad roundhouse.
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.
