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Photograph

'Electro Motive' Train

Date: 1940
Description: A man in a suit and hat is standing on the side of a train engine in a train yard. Railroad employees can be seen in and on the train, and a group of men a...
Photograph

Wickwire Spencer Steel Company Truck

Date: 1940
Description: An International D-500 truck owned by the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company is parked in the foreground of an industrial area near railroad tracks. In the bac...
Photograph

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...
Poster

Milwaukee Road Celebration Poster

Date: 1940
Description: An original colored poster celebrating the Milwaukee Road's 90 years of progress. The poster features three photographs of locomotive engines, ranging in t...
Photograph

Locomotive Parked near Courthouse Square

Date: 1940
Description: Two men and a police officer stand beside the "Pioneer," an early Chicago and Northwestern Railroad locomotive which is parked beside the Sauk County Court...
Photograph

Taggart Coal Supply Company Trucks

Date: 1940
Description: Two International D-15 trucks owned by Taggart Coal and Supply Company parked outside the storefront.
Photograph

Steam Locomotive

Date: 1940
Description: View towards a steam locomotive coming down one of a set of five railroad tracks at a railroad crossing. A group of locomotives are parked in the backgroun...

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