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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: | 1878 |
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Description: | Lake shore with men and railroad tracks on Devil's Lake. |
Date: | 1878 |
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Description: | Cliff House, a resort hotel built shortly after 1872 when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Three-story frame house with balcony on each floor. There is a ... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | A yellow mount stereograph of the railroad tracks skirting the edge of Devil's Lake, with several boats tied up alongside. From the stereograph series "The... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." Spectators sit on the railroad bed at Devil's Lake. |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Railroad Depot. North Freedom is the home of the Mid-Continent Railway Museum which operates excursion tours on a steam railroad. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
Date: | 04 1911 |
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Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
Date: | 09 12 1911 |
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Description: | An overview of the dam site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. Three pile drivers are at work on the coffer dam. The railroad trestle is in the ... |
Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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Description: | Two men are standing on the tracks of the newly constructed railroad extension to the construction site of the Prairie du Sac dam. Behind them, the tracks... |
Date: | 10 18 1911 |
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Description: | Receding flood waters reveal destruction of the railroad extension to the power dam construction site. |
Date: | 10 18 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen standing on damaged and partly submerged railroad track on the west shore of the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 01 20 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on a rail car on the narrow gauge electric railroad crossing the river at the dam construction site. The portion of track... |
Date: | 04 13 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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Description: | An overview, from the west bank, of the power dam construction site. The high trestle is in the background, and the narrow gauge electric railroad is in th... |
Date: | 07 25 1912 |
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Description: | A boy posing in the excavation site for the power house within the coffer dam. He is standing on the narrow gauge tracks; the high trestle is in the backgr... |
Date: | 08 07 1912 |
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Description: | Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou... |
Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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Description: | Pile drivers working within the confines of the coffer dam. Men are on the high trestle constructing chutes for pouring concrete. |
Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
Date: | 06 29 1913 |
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Description: | View from the west bank of the Wisconsin River showing progress on the power dam. The narrow gauge track is visible in the foreground. |
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