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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the United States Sugar Company factory next to railroad tracks on Atwood Avenue. The building was occupied in 1980 by Garver Feed & Suppl... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Camp Randall Stadium on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Top image on Place File card. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View, Camp Ra... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b... |
| Date: | 05 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wreck of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad freight train. The derailment is so severe that the train station has been knocked off... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive #2035 and a work train on a track clean-up assignment. Locomotive #102 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 18... |
| Date: | 11 1941 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot at Sussex (formerly known as Templeton). Two cars are parked near the depot and a bagga... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway's locomotive # 96 at the Waukesha depot. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A work crew of the Upham Lumber and Manufacturing Company near Athens, Wisconsin. The men are riding on a flatbed car of the Abbottsford and Northeastern R... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot. Virtually the entire population of Sherry is thought to be standing on the pl... |
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| Description: | Brakeman Clarence Commingore (left) and Philip C. Haag on Wisconsin Central Railroad's caboose No #171. The shield caboose markers were exclusive with the ... |
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| Description: | View from road of Wisconsin Central Railroad cafe-chair car No #852 sitting on railroad tracks at a crossing. Snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | A Northwestern Railroad train pulled by locomotive #967 across a bridge with steel supports. |
| Date: | 04 14 1948 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of cart loads of mail sacks on the platform, awaiting the arrival of the next train. The four men standing on the left have bee... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Green Bay & Western Railroad roundhouse. |
| Date: | 05 05 1897 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc. |
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| Description: | View of a passenger train coming down the tracks at the Horseshoe Curve. Rock Springs was called Ableman until 1947. |
| Date: | 11 16 1939 |
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| Description: | Highway bridge on USH 41 with a train pulled by locomotive #496 traveling under the span. |
| Date: | 05 05 1905 |
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| Description: | Observing the flood damage to railroad tracks in the business section of town. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | An early gasoline-powered handcar being used on the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie line for an inspection tour. The employees are (left to right... |
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