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Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View looking down railroad tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad locomotive #240, a type 4-4-0. On the right is a steep, rocky bank, ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad locomotive #280 at the Mineral Point depot. A group of people stand on the platform. The depot was built in 1857, ... |
Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, which is the first across a new bridge in Sheboygan. There is a group of people standing near ... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the railroad yards and station. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards and Station, Portage, Wis." |
Date: | 08 1974 |
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Description: | View down double set of railroad tracks towards a Milwaukee Road train, with the engineer about to board. Other men are standing in the background. |
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Description: | View across snow-covered railroad tracks towards Wisconsin Central's locomotive #4002. Industrial buildings are sending steam or smoke through smokestacks ... |
Date: | 02 02 1988 |
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Description: | Two Wisconsin Central Railroad locomotives near the Consolidated Papers pulpmill at Wisconsin Rapids. Snow is on the ground, and heavy smoke is coming out ... |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | View down platform towards a locomotive pulling a Green Bay & Western Railroad train at the Green Bay depot, with a Snavely omnibus parked at the platform ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | View towards railroad station with a few passengers on the platform awaiting the arrival of the train. The locomotive is billowing smoke. Two horses stand ... |
Date: | 10 30 1989 |
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Description: | Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, a member of the Amtrak governing board, joins an unidentified Amtrak official as the train breaks a ceremonial banner... |
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Description: | View of the Wisconsin Central Railroad crossing a railroad bridge at Knowlton. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | A Chicago & Northwestern train crossing a railroad bridge. |
Date: | 1956 |
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Description: | View across intersection of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad station at Blair and Wilson Streets. Three tall chimneys from the MG&E plant can be seen ... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Drawing of an early locomotive that the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad rebuilt to run on the M.& M. R.R. line (which was later absorbed into the Chicag... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Crew from the Augusta and Knoxville railroad posing with a steam engine. |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a... |
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Description: | Color illustration of Abraham Lincoln riding a horse behind a wagon as children look on. There is a locomotive in the background. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Winter scene with men standing on snow banks near a Madison-Portage Railroad locomotive. "The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railr... |
Date: | 1857 |
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Description: | At the opening of the railway between Grandhaven and Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 26, 1857, the locomotive Grand Rapids was manned by the railroad... |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | The maple and hickory forests in the old northwest were often plagued with fires during the summer months. Hölzlhuber, on a return journey from Niagara Fal... |
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