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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
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| Description: | View along right side of shoreline toward a Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul train crossing a bridge over the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The railroad trestle over the Red Cedar River with a steam train passing over. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the Soo Line railroad bridge crossing the Tomahawk River at Bradley, Wisconsin. The bridge, built in 1886, was 126 ft. long and... |
| Date: | 09 01 1882 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the special train of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad comprised of 24 freight cars loaded with lumber and other ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a railroad train crossing a bridge over the famous White River near Ashland. In the foreground is an open automobile crossing the ri... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad bridge over the river. Part of the bridge is covered. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Kilbourn Bridge at the Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. A locomotive is pulling railroad cars over the bridge. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A day passenger train crossing the high North Western railroad bridge over the Chippewa River. Railroad tracks are along the shoreline in the foreground. |
| Date: | 06 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking west over the Wisconsin River at the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle built for construction of the dam. Two pile drivers are seen in the a... |
| Date: | 06 21 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking east over the Wisconsin River showing the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. Two steam-driven pile drivers on barges with construction worke... |
| Date: | 03 19 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, looking east, of the wreckage of the high trestle caused by flooding and ice. The concrete plant is visible on the far bank. |
| Date: | 03 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east from the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. Recently completed buttresses are in the foreground, with earlier stages of constructio... |
| Date: | 08 01 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site from the west, showing the elevated trestle, coffer dam, and steam pile drivers. The concrete plant is vis... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A railroad section crew poses with a handcar on the trestle spanning the Buffalo River, north of Alma, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | View from top of new bridge of construction grounds at the bridge site. There are cars carrying building materials on the railroad tracks by the Bridgeport... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of two women, a girl, a boy, and a dog posed on a railroad bridge under construction. This is possibly over Hall's Creek, east of M... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence.... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A Frank Feiker "Souvenir' postcard depicting a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad bridge. A man is standing at the front of the bridge. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of hydroelectric plants on the Fox River. Caption reads: "Water Power - Looking West. Appleton, Wis." |
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