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| Date: | 08 1974 |
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| Description: | View down double set of railroad tracks towards a Milwaukee Road train, with the engineer about to board. Other men are standing in the background. |
| Date: | 02 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad tracks running down the middle of East Wilson Street from South Baldwin Street to Dickinson Street. |
| Date: | 07 24 1971 |
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| Description: | Slewing drive that was purchased by the Dravo Corporation. Original Falk caption reads, "Slewing Drive-2 parts-(1) 19 feet 5 inches O.D. x 6 1/2 inch wide ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1978 |
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| Description: | "Soo Line Railroad Station. Before the days of radio, some of the local men would huddle around the telegraph key as reports came over the wire of a prize... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | An unidentified papermill in northern Wisconsin used as the backdrop for a publicity photo shoot during Congressman David R. Obey's first re-election campa... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehicles at a railhead. There are railroad cars on five tracks loaded, double-decker style, with ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the rear of "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehicles at a railhead. There are railroad cars on five tracks loaded, double-decke... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railhead. Cars and trucks are parked near small industrial buildings on the bottom left. The "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehi... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from rear of railhead. Trucks are parked on the left and right, alongside the "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehicles which are on ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Group of six men wearing suits posing in front of "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehicles at a railhead. There are railroad cars on five tracks l... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Man working at the side of a railroad car on the "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehicles at a railhead. Another man is driving a vehicle up the r... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Black watercolor of a single-story store with large wood-framed, plate-glass windows, a false front and a pitched roof. The building's external side wall b... |
| Date: | 06 29 1972 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of crowd on railroad tracks near flatbed railroad cars carrying circus wagons for a parade. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Steiger factory buildings. In the foreground are railroad cars on railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 10 13 1977 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hardhat and carrying a tool is walking along railroad tracks. Caption reads: "A railroad worker walked along a line in the Menomonee Valley... |
| Date: | 01 1977 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards smoke rising from the buildings and smokestacks of Madison Gas & Electric. Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks reflecting the light of the sun at either sunrise or sunset. Silhouettes of cranes, power lines and buildings are in the d... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Two railroad workers are pulling on a chain next to a railroad car carrying coal. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | A railroad worker cleans snow out of a railroad track switch with a broom. He is dressed warmly with a hard hat. |
| Date: | 07 07 1970 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Riverside & Great Northern Railway. R. & G.N. Ry. afternoon local taking water south of Rockdale, at Wisconsin Dells, Wis." A minia... |
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