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| 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: | 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: | 06 21 1900 |
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| Description: | A crowd of men gather around a wrecked Chicago and North-Western train. |
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| Description: | Men pose around the remains of runaway train Engine No. 80 after it crashed and the boiler exploded on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway. |
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| Description: | A collision of a freight train with an excursion train on the Chicago and North Western Railway, resulting in six deaths and at least 46 people injured. |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "A Channel 6 reporter-photographer interviews Dodge County Sheriff, Stephen Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald coordinated security around the crash scene." |
| 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... |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "First assistant fire chief Chuck Trauba and fireman, Dale Krueger, surveyed the damage along the tracks with an overturned railcar as a backdrop." |
| Date: | 03 09 1911 |
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| Description: | Man standing in front of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad boxcar sitting on railroad tracks. The sides of the car are splintered, destroyed by an explos... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View looking down at men gathered at railroad wreck The locomotive is on its side, and the freight cars are demolished. |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the front of a locomotive tipped sideways on the set of railroad tracks on the right. On the left set of railroad tracks ... |
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| Description: | A group of men, some with shovels, are working near the front of a locomotive that has derailed. There is a pile of sacks in the background on the right. A... |
| 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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