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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | 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... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | "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 ar... |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad depot, with first train into Willard on the Fairchild and Northeastern Line. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Locomotive No. 75. Class H. Built 1850 by Schnectady Locomotive Works. Men are posed on and around the locomotive. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive no. 221, the first "big engine" on the Wisconsin Central. Built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in 1898, and later ren... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The Clyde after being converted to a sternwheel rafter, pushing a tow with a locomotive on board. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company locomotive Number 1, loaded with logs and flanked by large piles of logs. |
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| Description: | Holmes Sons logging railroad ready to start for landing. Three steam engines pictured. Primary engine pulls flatbed cars loaded with logs. |
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| Description: | Men pose on and around a large steam engine locomotive and mineral cars(?) in front of a factory with tall smokestacks. The side of the engine reads: "Calu... |
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| Description: | Two workers are posing in front of a steam engine carrying logs for an International Harvester sawmill. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two workers perched on a steam locomotive pulling railroad cars loaded with logs. The coal car bears the name "Deering Southwestern Railway." The railway w... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Steam locomotive moving an overhead crane used to lay rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. One man is standing on the right, and another man i... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The railroad trestle over the Red Cedar River with a steam train passing over. |
| Date: | 02 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad steam engine transporting new McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) from Moline, Illin... |
| Date: | 09 1925 |
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| Description: | Kenneth Chipman riding a toy railroad engine on the farm of W.W. Chipman. Worked by footpower and with a working whistle bell, the toy engine follows track... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | McCormick Reaper Works and wood shop stock yard as seen from across a canal. In the foreground is a rail yard with a small engine and rail cars. The factor... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad train at the old station, 640 West Washington Ave., with snowplow at the old depot. Engineer James F. Mills is i... |
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