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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks and several houses. Several railroad employees are doing repair work on the tracks, and one man is riding on a handcar. Be... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
| Date: | 01 09 1946 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Street from the Yahara River Bridge, scene of accident, near railroad crossing. There is a Victorian house at left, 1628 Winnebago Street, with a... |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction crew working on Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, showing the W.R. Baker Tavern at 601 E. Wilson Street, and the Pa... |
| Date: | 08 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men are looking at a damaged automobile belonging to Elmer Meixner, DeForest, after a collision with a Milwaukee Road train at the East Johnson Street... |
| Date: | 08 11 1934 |
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| Description: | Doyon Lumber Co., following a warehouse fire, located at 638 West Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 09 10 1939 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the Central Avenue depot and the railroad crossing. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad depot and the J.N. Bassett grain elevator. A four-car passenger train is stopped at the station. |
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| Description: | View down center of railroad tracks towards Holmes Junction, an intersection of the Wisconsin & Michigan and the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul railroads, ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad engine pulling a pay car. Identified employees include: (left to right) brakeman E.W. Sweet and fireman C... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Four men inspecting the washout of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie tracks caused by a flood at Medina Junction. The view is looking west from th... |
| Date: | 09 1980 |
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| Description: | View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over... |
| Date: | 04 22 1965 |
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| Description: | A panoramic view of the Mississippi River flooding during the spring, showing the dykes built along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks at Sec... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a machine shop, with a wagon in the foreground. A body of water is behind the shop, and railroad tracks curve around to the right. A sign ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee Road and Chicago & Northwestern Railway crossing on Monona Bay, the site of the old MX tower. |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Northwestern passenger train and truck collision at Commercial Avenue crossing in which two people, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Thompson (Alice) were killed. T... |
| Date: | 07 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Two children on bicycles waiting for a Milwaukee Road train to "unblock" the entrances to Brittingham Park. Most children not on bicycles crawled under the... |
| Date: | 09 05 1947 |
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| Description: | The train engineer's view (looking east) of the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at Regent Street, Breeze Terrace, and Little Street, taken one-hundred f... |
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