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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls. |
| Date: | 03 20 1956 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 08 10 1934 |
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| Description: | A large group of people stands around the covered body of H.C. Townley, Oregon school teacher, killed by a Milwaukee Road freight train, at the University ... |
| Date: | 03 05 1933 |
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| Description: | Train-car crash scene. Shows demolished automobile and large group of onlookers at Milwaukee Road, Fair Oaks railroad crossing. The driver, Miss Lena Schmi... |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | People watching railroad workers attempting to extricate the bodies of three men who died under the wheels of the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive... |
| 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: | 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: | 05 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wreck of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad freight train. The derailment is so severe that the train station has been knocked off... |
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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: | Soo Line train wreck. People are standing on and around the train wreckage. |
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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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| Description: | Elevated view of Soo Line train wreck. There are railroad tracks with overturned cars, and people standing around. |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 21 1948 |
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| Description: | Chicago Northwestern Railroad tracks and train crossing Monona Bay, the site of an accident in which Harry R. Frankey, 112 South Henry Street, was killed i... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of train cars that have fallen off the railroad tracks, with men working nearby. |
| 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.... |
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