Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Locomotives
Filter: Subject of outdoor photography
| Date: | 12 22 1937 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Brookville locomotive pulling dump cars in a rock quarry owned by General Refractories Company. Two men can be seen sitting inside through the front window... |
| Date: | 11 18 1937 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A man operating a Brookville locomotive powered by an International P-12 power unit while two men are working behind him at what appears to be a constructi... |
| Date: | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View toward a large group of people posing on railroad cars and the locomotive on tracks. Caption reads: "Dummy Leaving Pertle Springs, MO." A man holding... |
| Date: | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A man in an International Model M truck parked in a railroad yard beside a freight train. In the background is a locomotive and a refrigerator car. The tra... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of a peach orchard and packing house. The roof of a building is in the foreground. Railroad tracks on the left run through the orchard, and a... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The station at Sylvan Beach was essential in providing transportation to central New York's recreational resort area. Caption reads: "Train Time. Sylvan Be... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A train sending out a shipment of taconite from the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A 300 ton steam shovel scooping iron ore at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Trains transported iron ore through St. George every twenty minutes. A view of the city can be seen behind the railroad yard. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of a sugar cane plantation. Several men are on horseback while others stand nearby. On the other side of a fence are two locomotives. Harvested sugar ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A view of a steam hauler pulling logs across ice on sleds. Four men are posing, with one man sticking his head out of a window of the hauler; one man is s... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A view of a steam hauler used for pulling logs. A man is standing inside of the hauler with his head out of the window. On the right a man is standing in f... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | 36 McKinley Furnace was constructed by Theodore Powers and A. L. Crawford in 1848. Caption reads: "McKinley Furnace, New Castle, PA." |
| Date: | 1960 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Group of people at a railroad platform near the "Imperial train" used by the Root Commission as they traveled through Russia. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View from below of wood burning locomotive and single car on elevated railroad bridge and approach trestle, somewhere along the upper Mississippi River. La... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A panoramic view of many men gathered on the railroad tracks on an embankment, working to up-right train cars that have tipped over. On the right is a loco... |
| Date: | 01 06 1918 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Lumber crew posed with a steam hauler and several sleds loaded with logs. The foreman's sleigh pulled by a horse is in the foreground. Possibly foreman, Mi... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: