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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... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a locomotive at the Bell Center depot. Men stand on the platform. |
| Date: | 09 1980 |
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| Description: | View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
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| Description: | Two men pumping handcar on White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. This railroad served the needs of Yukon's population as well as its mining industry since 18... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on the railroad tracks. There are locomotives and railroad cars on the tracks. Some children are standing on the tracks near t... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A railroad section crew poses with a handcar on the trestle spanning the Buffalo River, north of Alma, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a railroad engine with passengers before it ascends Mount Washington Railroad's 'Jacob's Ladder,' built around 1868 with a grade of 37.41%. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Several men pose while standing alongside a train at the Elroy depot. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad crew with the rock crusher. The train car is labeled '204430' and 'Burlington Route'. A steep hill rises behind... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks, showing the switching station, water tank, and buildings. Two men stand on the railroad tracks. Ester Point is near Cassville, W... |
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| Description: | A winter view of the depot with a passenger train. Passengers are on the platform. The engineer is leaning out the window of the locomotive. In the backgro... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A passenger train stopped at the depot. Three men are standing on the left, one of them pushing a cart. A row of milk cans is along the side of the depot b... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central railroad locomotive no. 120 at the railroad station. Engineer Clelland McVick is standing in the gangway, and a woman who is presumably h... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Milwaukee Road at Happy Hollow. Left to right: engineers Fred Brown, John J. Rigney, William Wall, William H. Fetherston, and conductors J... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workmen building the main railroad line from Black River Falls to Vaudreuil. |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a Native American man with his arms crossed over his chest standing on rocks near the Wisconsin River. He is wearing a headdress, a pat... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a railroad employee standing on a handcar on the tracks painting the surface of a "tunnel" with a brush. Another man is looking at him with a ha... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Switchman standing at the switch next to railroad tracks cut through a rock formation. Another man is standing on top of the rock formation on the left. In... |
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