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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | The Pennsylvania Railroad purchased this innovative steam engine that was built to pull up to 125 loaded cars at 50 miles per hour. |
| Date: | 04 15 1941 |
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| Description: | Impassible muddy conditions along State Highway 13 between Butternut and Glidden, with a truck of the Flambeau Freight Lines stuck up to its axles. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group looks on as a man uses a cutting torch to reduce scrap iron into readily marketable pieces in the farm scrap collection drive in Barton County. Acc... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | International truck owned and operated by Davidson Fast Freight, a division of Davidson Transfer & Storage Company. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Man driving International truck with semi-trailer owned and operated by Davidson Fast Freight, a division of Davidson Transfer & Storage Company. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A man unloads boxes from an International KB-10 truck parked on a city street. The sidewalk appears to be under an elevated railroad track or some time of ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | International KB-5 truck unloading at loading dock. Original caption reads: "An International KB-5 with 76-inch wheelbase owned by Motor Cargo Incorporated... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | International KS-7-COE tractor-trailer (semi-truck) owned and operated by Southern Transfer & Storage Co. of St. Petersburg, Florida. Palm trees are in the... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | International K-7 tractor and trailer (semi-truck) operated by Allied Van Lines. The truck was owned by Ware Transfer & Storage of Des Moines, Iowa. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | International K-8 truck and trailer owned by Jack Marsh Motor Transport. Two men are loading or unloading the truck in an urban alley. Original caption rea... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KS-11 truck and trailer (semi-truck) traveling the highway leading out of Altoona. The truck was operated by Ward Trucking. Original caption ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Man driving an International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer (semi-truck) on a rural highway. The truck was owned and operated by West Motor Freight of Boyer... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer (semi-truck) parked on a rural road. The truck was owned and operated by West Motor Freight of Boyertown, Penns... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Man in driver's seat with the door open backing an International KR-11 with semi-trailer up to a loading dock at Hurff Cannery. The truck was operated by R... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck with refrigerated semi-trailer (semi truck) parked next to a box car near a warehouse building. Original caption reads: "Meat and... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck operated by Harms-Randolph Freight Lines at a fleet loading station. Original caption reads: "One of three KR-11 International tr... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck and semi-trailer (semi-truck) parked near gas pumps at a service station. Original caption: "The truck shown is [this picture] at... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer (semi-truck) operated by Northwest Freight Lines. The truck is on a mountain road next to a large rock formatio... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Man driving an International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer at the Billings Municipal Airport. The truck was operated by Northwest Freight Lines. Original c... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck operated by Navajo Freight Lines. The trailer is illustrated with what appears to be profile of a Native American. Original capti... |
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