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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 1874 |
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| Description: | Interior of a coach on an emigration train to the west. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 1862 |
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| Description: | First train crossing the Obion River, Tennessee, on the Ohio and Mobile Railroad on a bridge built by the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers. Watercolor by John Ga... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman greets a crowd from the back platform of a NorthWestern train at the Commercial Ave. crossing. Others with him from the left are... |
| Date: | 08 01 1917 |
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| Description: | National Guard troops unloading their supplies from New York Central railroad cars into a transport wagon to be taken to camp. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from the top of a railroad car on railroad tracks along the Mississippi River shoreline. Ships are along the shoreline on the right, and railroad trac... |
| Date: | 01 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Six people are standing in front of a railroad car with a Duncan Hines advertisement on the side, two boxes of cake mix and a large cake with the sign: "An... |
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| Description: | View of Southern Pacific Railroad cars being transferred across the Mississippi River with a barge near New Orleans. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks with a view of a railroad station and a Western Union telegraph office. Men are standing on the porch of the railroad station, ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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| Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Men and women are standing near the damaged railroad tracks. Sixteen men were killed by t... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mills with men posing on switcher engines in front of the buildings. The engines are, (left to right): Chicago and Northwestern... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An unidentified worker, probably in California, loading crates of melons onto a refrigerated railroad car. |
| Date: | 10 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Democratic candidate for vice-president, Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, being greeted by Madison labor leaders. From left: Roy E. Bewick, President o... |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
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| Description: | Men approaching a train at the railroad depot carrying farm machinery from the J.I. Case Company. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate aboard the campaign train, making a stop in Baraboo. |
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| Description: | Loaded sleighs and wagons approaching the railroad station. Railroad cars are along the left. |
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| Description: | Crowd at railroad station listening to a whistle-stop speaker standing on the back of a caboose. Probably William McKinley. |
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