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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Colorful locomotive pulling several cars full of children at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). Although referred to as the "Kiddie Train," the caption ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a train stopped at the Chicago & North West railroad station. A small group of people stand in the grass waiting beside the tracks... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of people standing on a platform next to a snow-covered train arriving at a station. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a train wreck. Survivors and onlookers are gathered on and around the railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Wreck... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Railroad loading platform with a Gurney Refrigerator Company plant in the far background. On the far left a man pulls a hand cart, in the center a man sits... |
| Date: | 03 18 1917 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a group of people standing in front of two locomotives, the one on the right with a snowplow attached. Caption reads: "Snow P... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard down two sets of railroad tracks towards the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad station. A number of people are standi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from left side of double set of railroad tracks towards a locomotive approaching the railroad station from the opposite direction. People are in front... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view across railroad tracks towards a train depot, with passengers gathered on the platform awaiting an arriving train. Horse-drawn wagons and... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Sepia-toned oval-shaped photographic view of men posing with a narrow gauge train at the Fennimore Depot. Flowers surround the photograph. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of the train depot with a passenger train on the tracks and passengers on the platform. Caption reads: "C. & N.W. Railway Depot, Fort Atk... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Fredonia Depot. There is a train on the tracks, and a man is sitting on the front of the locomotive. A man is stand... |
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| Description: | View towards the front of Locomotive #2039 stopped at the Fremont Depot. A conductor is walking alongside the train on the right. Caption reads: "Soo Line ... |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Grafton Depot and an oncoming train. A man is standing on the platform. St. Paul's Lutheran Church is in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of a locomotive stopped in a wash-out. Two men are standing nearby. Bluffs are in the background. Caption reads: "Wash-Out, Green River, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago and Northwestern Passenger Station. Horses and coaches are at the curb. A train is pulling up to the station, and men are standing on t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across tracks towards a small railroad depot, with people gathered on the platform. A locomotive belching smoke is approaching the depot. |
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| Description: | View towards a train hauling many flatbed cars of logs. There is an inset photograph of a person on top of a stack of logs on a sleigh being pulled by an o... |
| Date: | 09 14 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "C. & N. W. Depot. Sheboygan, Wis." The Chicago & North Western railroad depot, built of brick in 1906. A train is stopped, pedestrian... |
| Date: | 08 28 1914 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Depot and Train, Spring Gren [sic], Wis." A train station with the depot on the left and a locomotive on the right. Adults and childr... |
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