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| Date: | 08 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad freight car with "Oscar Mayer's Meats of Good Taste" advertisement on the side. |
| Date: | 06 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Left side view of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car, Chicago and Northwestern Railway car number N.W.X.6845. |
| Date: | 06 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Left side of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car, Chicago & Northwestern #URTX 5365. |
| Date: | 06 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Right side view of Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, car number URTX 5365. |
| Date: | 06 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the top of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car, Chicago & Northwestern #URTX 5365 with a view of the Oscar Mayer rail yards. There is... |
| Date: | 06 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Truck-pulled rock crusher manufactured by Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company, 623 East Main Street. Left rear view of the unit parked along railroad track... |
| Date: | 07 17 1934 |
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| Description: | Two railroad freight cars with Fauerbach Beer signs covering their sides are parked outdoors on railroad tracks in a railroad yard. |
| Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Flooded Park Street viaduct, with a railroad train on tracks above the viaduct. There is a car in the water under the viaduct, and a man is standing on the... |
| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Group of men sitting on top of railroad flatbed car loaded with culverts. Sign above them reads: "Capital City Culvert Company," 1335 Gilson Street. |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | Texas Company U.S.A. (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant, 919 E. Main Street. Text on print reads: "Texas Company, Capitol Oil Co." |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | The Texas Company USA (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant at 919 E. Main Street. The view is from the east, with Texaco railroad tank car... |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards the Capitol Oil Company building, located at 919 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 08 12 1928 |
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| Description: | Men unloading Frigidaire refrigerators from New York Central/Cincinnati Northern railroad box car to truck. The delivery is for the Gay Brothers Apartments... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the repair shop of the Madison Traction Company on Fair Oaks Avenue. An open streetcar is on the ramp, with a closed car from the Wingra P... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Young man posing on train tracks in front of two passenger cars decorated with banners for the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Club. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Members of the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club posing at the rear of a train during the Spring Tour of 1896. Railroad employees and o... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman greets a crowd from the back platform of a NorthWestern train at the Commercial Ave. crossing. Others with him from the left are... |
| Date: | 11 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, beside the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad tracks. Shown are three loaded flatcars on a si... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | The remains of an ice rack used for refrigerated freight cars, located at the railroad yards on Regent Street and West Washington Avenue. |
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