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Log Hauling Train

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Description: Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs.
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Loggers Posing on Railroad Tracks

Date: 1896
Description: Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja...
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Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville...
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Loading Rock from Quarry

Date: 1894
Description: Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car.
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Boxcar Traveler

Date: 1895
Description: A man stands in the open doorway of a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha railway boxcar.
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Train Wreck

Date: 1900
Description: Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls.
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Railroad Crew with Handcar

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Description: Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks.
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Crowd at Railroad Tracks

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Description: A crowd of happy, well-dressed adults and children wait at the railroad tracks for a train.
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Railroad Depot

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Description: Men approaching a train at the railroad depot carrying farm machinery from the J.I. Case Company.
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Men Unloading Boxes

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Description: Elevated view of men unloading boxes at the railroad station, probably strawberries and blueberries.
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Group of People at Railroad Station

Date: 1898
Description: Group of people looking at single car at the railroad station, probably a special car for a traveling minstrel show.
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Men Constructing Building Along Railroad

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Description: A possible stereograph of numerous men constructing an unidentified building next to railroad tracks.
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Men on Railroad Tracks

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Description: Panoramic view of group of men, boys, and girls lined up along railroad tracks, posing sitting and standing on and near two trains. There is a brick buildi...
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Men Working on Tipped Train Cars

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Description: A panoramic view of many men gathered on the railroad tracks on an embankment, working to up-right train cars that have tipped over. On the right is a loco...
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Fremont Railroad Station

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Description: Men at a railroad station awaiting the arrival of a train in Fremont (later Pray). There is snow on the ground. Two men are standing on a hand-powered rail...
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Two Men Posed with Locomotive

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Description: Two men posed by the locomotive of a freight train on railroad tracks, probably by the coal shed at Millston. The two-wheeled express wagon on the platform...
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Group of Men Posed with Railroad Train

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Description: View from steep bank of a large group of men posed standing with shovels by a railroad train with flat cars covered with sand or dirt. Man of the men are h...
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Bridge Under Construction

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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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Construction of Railroad

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Description: Group of men at the construction of a railroad branch line among piles of stones. Railroad ties placed on the ground are visible on the platform in the bac...
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Lumberyard with railroad lines and a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in McKenna.

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