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Photograph

Railroad Depot

Date: 1910
Description: View of a train arriving at the station. The train station is full of people and there is a horse-drawn carriage next to the building.
Drawing

The First Passenger Train in Michigan

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Description: Locomotive with coal car and one passenger car passing through rural landscape. People wave from a log cabin and a horse-drawn vehicle in the background an...
Photograph

Saint Paul & Des Moines Depot

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Description: A train sits in the Saint Paul & Des Moines train depot while people gather nearby. Text on train reads: "St. P. & D.M. R.R.," "53", "Des Moines Iowa Falls...
Photograph

Chicago & North Western Depot

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Description: A train is parked in Chicago & North Western depot while people and horse-drawn vehicles gather nearby. Caption reads: "C. & N.W. Depot, Nevada, Iowa."
Photograph

Little Falls Minnesota Depot

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Description: View of the Northern Pacific railroad depot. Men are standing next to the train parked in the station and the depot is on the left. "Little Falls" is the s...
Photograph

Depot and Train

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Description: View from a distance of the train depot. On the left a locomotive is parked along the train platform where a group of people are standing. In the center is...
Photograph

Railroad Depot

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Description: Exterior view of a railroad depot. Men and women gathered on and near the tracks to board trains. Published by Quillin Bros. Druggists.
Drawing

Train Spooking Horses

Date: 1948
Description: Drawing of a passenger train approaching a small town where two teams of horses on a plank road appear to be startled by the noise of the locomotive. One t...
Postcard

C. M. & St. P. Railway Station

Date: 1916
Description: Photographic postcard view of a train on the tracks, several people on the platform, a boy standing with a bicycle, and a horse and carriage parked behind ...
Postcard

Lake Mills Railroad Depot

Date: 1912
Description: View towards the Lake Mills Railroad Depot. A passenger train is on the tracks on the left. A light rail trolley is on the sharply curving tracks on the ri...
Postcard

C.M. & St. P. Depot

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Description: View across street towards the C.M. & St. Paul Depot, with passenger trains on railroad tracks on both sides of the depot. There are pedestrians and a hors...

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