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Train Wreck

Date: 03 20 1956
Description: Elevated view of railroad cars laying across and around railroad tracks while workers look on and contemplate how to clean up the massive mess caused by th...
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Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
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...
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Truck Wreck

Date: 06 22 1935
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...
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Train Wreck

Date: 06 21 1900
Description: Wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Little Rapids. A group of men and boys are viewing the damage to the locomotive.
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Train Wreck

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Description: Derailment of a Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault St. Marie Railway train near Waupaca. A large crowd is gathered on an overpass to watch the Soo Line's Wrec...
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Derailed Locomotive and Cars

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated view of the Kickapoo & Northern Railway locomotive and cars seen here after being derailed due to flooding on the Kickapoo River.
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Head-On Train Collision

Date: 10 1891
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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Tank Car Wreck

Date: 08 1946
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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Soo Line Train Wreck

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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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Soo Line Train Wreck

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Description: Soo Line train wreck, with two men standing near box car wreckage.
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Soo Line Train Wreck

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Description: Soo Line train wreck. Four men are working on the tracks near an overturned box car.
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Soo Line Train Wreck

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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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Crane Lifting Boxcar

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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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Railway Crane lifting Boxcar

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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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Milwaukee Road Train Wreck

Date: 01 11 1948
Description: The remains of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arlington in Columbia Cou...
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Milwaukee Road Train Wreck

Date: 01 11 1948
Description: The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling...
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Raymond Dvorak, Band Director

Date: 05 16 1948
Description: Raymond Dvorak, University of Wisconsin band director arriving in Madison after a train accident in Kremlin, Oklahoma. He is on a gurney with attendants, a...
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Train Wreck

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Description: Elevated view of train cars that have fallen off the railroad tracks, with men working nearby.
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Railroad Accident

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Description: Elevated view of railroad cars that have fallen off the railroad tracks. Two men are crawling on top of the toppled railroad cars.
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Railroad Accident

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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 ...

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