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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Tank car wreck at the Grand Trunk Western Railroad car ferry docks. A man wearing a hat is in the right foreground. |
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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: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar back on the track from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "In Lomira, a Kondex Corp. employee was killed when three derailed railcars plowed into the concrete block building in the background at 5:30 AM. Eleven of... |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "Looking north along this section of track, one can see the overturned car's wheels, and debris after the derailment. The visible bend in the tracks was ca... |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "Heavy-duty moving equipment from Michels Pipeline of Brownsville helped to move derailed cars back onto the tracks. Within 27 hours, all cars were righted... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards men standing and watching machinery clearing train wreckage. |
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| Description: | View towards a boxcar tipped over on railroad tracks. The boxcar is leaning on a large pile of what may be gravel. Piles and stacks of wood are on the left... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 09 15 1910 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a tipped over boxcar. |
| Date: | 07 09 1920 |
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| Description: | Railroad accident outside plant, with a boxcar tipped off a hill. Men are standing in and around the boxcar, which is full of material. |
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