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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. |
| Date: | 06 22 1935 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people viewing the remains of a Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train, near the Brittingham Park cro... |
| Date: | 06 22 1935 |
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| Description: | A Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train near the Brittingham Park crossing, Greenbush. Thomas Haney, truck driv... |
| Date: | 08 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men are looking at a damaged automobile belonging to Elmer Meixner, DeForest, after a collision with a Milwaukee Road train at the East Johnson Street... |
| Date: | 03 23 1934 |
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| Description: | Crowd standing on the Thornton Avenue bank of the Yahara River at the Milwaukee Road railroad bridge looking at a car-train accident scene where Mrs. Clark... |
| Date: | 03 23 1934 |
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| Description: | Crowd standing on the Thornton Avenue bank of the Yahara River at the Milwaukee Road railroad bridge looking at a car-train accident scene where Mrs. Clark... |
| Date: | 10 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Bus and streetcar accident at Regent Street and Mills Street, looking north on Mills. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | People looking at the train cars and undamaged front end of the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck involved in the Milwaukee Road passenger train-truck acci... |
| Date: | 10 1891 |
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| Description: | The wreckage of a head-on collision of two Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains at Tramway. Men stand near and on top of the railroad cars... |
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| Description: | View through fence looking towards the train wreck of "Soo Line". The engine is leaning off the track. Snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of train wreck of Soo Line. There is a box car off the train tracks, with other wreckage in background. There is some snow along the right si... |
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| Description: | Soo Line Train wreck with large crane pulling up damaged train engine. Snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Soo Line train wreck. There are railroad tracks with overturned cars, and people standing around. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Northwestern Line railroad accident. Railroad cars have fallen off the railroad tracks and the engine car is lying on its side. Men and ... |
| Date: | 11 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Car wreckage and a Milwaukee Road switch engine are shown at the University Avenue railroad crossing. The four persons in the car were hurt. They were Mr.... |
| Date: | 04 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Onlookers stand near a Milwaukee Road switch engine and two boxcars derailed near the East Johnson Street crossing of the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road locomotive 5508 resting on its side after a derailment. The engine struck the rail, seen in center foreground, which had been driven upright... |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Railroad workers and a crowd of other men, women, and children standing and walking near the wreckage of a freight train. The engine and tender are lying o... |
| Date: | 07 1907 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat, bow tie and suspenders is posing standing on a ladder on the side of a boxcar at McCormick Works. There is a poster on the side that r... |
| Date: | 07 1907 |
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| Description: | Boxcar at McCormick Works. There is a poster on the side that reads: "Deering Threshing Machines." The front wall of the boxcar is burst out. Perhaps from ... |
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