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Santa Express Train Ride

Date: 12 05 1964
Description: View of a child sitting in a seat, who is one of 6,000 children riding the Santa Express Train from Madison to Stoughton and back, is shown being greeted b...
Postcard

Milwaukee Northern Substation

Date: 1907
Description: Hand-colored view down railroad tracks toward the substation. An interurban car is on the railroad tracks, and a group of passengers are on the platform. C...
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Milwaukee Northern Interurban Car

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Description: Hand-colored view of a Milwaukee Northern Interurban car on a snowy day. It stops at Milwaukee, Cedarburg, Grafton and Port Washington. The driver is sitti...
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Kilbourn City

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Description: View down platform, with railroad cars on the left, towards the Kilbourn railroad station. A crowd is standing along the platform. On the right is a lawn a...
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 ...
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Mil. Northern R'y Ticket Office

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Description: Intercity Light Rail Trolley on the tracks in front of the ticket office. Caption reads: "Mil. Northern R'y Ticket Office, Grafton, Wis."
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Boxcar

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: View of a railway car on railroad tracks. Automobiles are parked behind it on the far right. There is a man in the driver's seat of the railway car, and pa...
Postcard

National Railroad Museum

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Description: Color postcard of a yellow train car next to a yellow depot. Text on reverse reads: "National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wisconsin Internationally famo...
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Lumberjack Steam Train

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Description: View from side of railroad tracks towards a man posing at the front of a vintage steam locomotive. Flowers are in the foreground.
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North Freedom Railroad

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view of steam trains and railroad cars on the North Freedom Railroad at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. Cars are in the parking lot on the right...
Postcard

Commuter Rail Car

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a commuter rail car stopped at the depot. A group of businessmen are standing on the left near the railroad tracks, and more ...
Postcard

Cameron House and C. M. & St. P. Passenger Station

Date: 1911
Description: View of the Cameron House hotel and the railroad platform. Caption reads: "Cameron House and C. M. & St. P. Passenger Station, La Crosse, Wis."
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Electric R.R. Station, Shore Path, and Beach, Fontana

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Description: View along shore path at Lake Geneva. An electric railroad stop is behind the trees. Rowboats, canoes and an excursion boat are lined up along the beach an...
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

Lake Waubesa Station, Edwards' Park

Date: 1907
Description: View of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger cars stopped behind a group of men and boys standing in the foreground. Caption reads: "Lake Waubesa Statio...
Photograph

Baghdad Rail Line

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Description: A draisine, or speeder, on the Baghdad rail line.
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Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Sitting on the train and ready for a trip to the nation's capitol are Madison Newspapers, Inc. newsboys, Gerald Schroeder (left) and Billy Adelman (both of...
Postcard

C.M. & St. Paul Depot

Date: 1918
Description: View from road towards the Mayville train depot, with a passenger train on the left set of two railroad tracks. Caption reads: "C.M. & St. Paul Depot, Mayv...
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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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Depot

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Description: The depot at Menomonee Falls. Passengers are on the platform, and a train is on one set of the railroad tracks. Two men are near a handcar on the parallel ...

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