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Schlitz Grain Elevator

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Description: Grain elevator with large Schlitz sign. There are railroad cars on a railroad track in the foreground.
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Odanah Railroad Bridge

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Description: A Northwestern Railroad train pulled by locomotive #967 across a bridge with steel supports.
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Train Passengers at Rudolph

Date: 1902
Description: View down side of railroad tracks across road towards a group of people standing on the platform of the Rudolph depot, awaiting the arrival of Milwaukee Ro...
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Railroad Bridge over Tomahawk River

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Description: View from shoreline towards the Soo Line railroad bridge crossing the Tomahawk River at Bradley, Wisconsin. The bridge, built in 1886, was 126 ft. long and...
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Rail Crossing at Elroy

Date: 09 1936
Description: Chicago & Northwestern Railroad train crossing the Elroy-New Lisbon Road (Highway 80).
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Horseshoe Curve near Ableman

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Description: View of a passenger train coming down the tracks at the Horseshoe Curve. Rock Springs was called Ableman until 1947.
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Soo Round House at Abbottsford

Date: 1909
Description: The Soo line roundhouse. Caption reads: "Soo Round House, Abbottsford, Wis."
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First Train

Date: 05 03 1948
Description: Elevated view of a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, which is the first across a new bridge in Sheboygan. There is a group of people standing near ...
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Portage Railroad Depot

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of the railroad yards and station. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards and Station, Portage, Wis."
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Hunting Party by Train

Date: 1912
Description: A deer hunting party pose with carcasses and supplies by a train on the C. St. P. M. & O. railroad.
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Smelting Furnaces

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Description: Elevated view of industrial buildings identified as smelting furnaces. A railroad train and railroad track runs the length of the foreground of the image a...
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Train on Bridge

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Description: 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 ...
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Railroad Yard at Allis-Chalmers

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view of Allis-Chalmers plant showing several trains on the tracks next to a large industrial building. The steam engine tender in front of the loc...
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24th US Infantry Division Leaves for Japan

Date: 01 29 1952
Description: Personnel of the 24th US Infantry Division, carrying duffel bags, prepare to board a train to Northern Japan.
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Northwestern Engine No. 5001

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Description: Engine no. 5001 of a Northwestern train.
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Engine No. 4076A

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Description: Engine no. 4076A of a Chicago and North Western train.
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Locomotive Explosion

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Description: Four men pose next to a locomotive, which has a hole in its side due to an explosion.
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Slumbercoach

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Description: Two women boarding the Slumbercoach car on a B&O Railroad passenger train. A Pullman porter carries two suitcases as a stewardess greets customers. ...
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Engine No. 1073

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Description: Several crew members posing next to the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway switching Engine No. 1073, which operated in Menasha, Wisconsin.
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Silver Ribbons

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of parallel tracks in a railroad yard, with a locomotive pulling a boxcar. A man is standing near the boxcar. On the right are buildings, and...

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