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Photograph

Depot and Yards

Date: 1911
Description: View down railroad tracks of a depot and yards in Ableman. The depot is in the background, among other industrial and commercial buildings.
Photograph

Depot and Yards

Date: 1925
Description: View down railroad tracks of a locomotive pulling into a railroad depot and yards. The depot is a two-story building. Two wagons are parked near the depot ...
Postcard

Railroad Yards

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Description: Photographic postcard of the railroad yard. Across an empty yard where a few large pipes lay, a locomotive with smoking stack and cars is on railroad track...
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 1223

Date: 1906
Description: Five railroad employees pose on Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1223 at the Chestnut Street yard. Left to right are yardman Jack Meyer, ya...
Photograph

Engine No. 207

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Description: Side view of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine no. 207, a yard engine.
Photograph

Freight Yard

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Description: View of several rows of railroad cars at a freight yard.
Photograph

Railroad Yards

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Description: Elevated view of rows of railroad cars can be seen lined up on the tracks outside Minot Flour Mill Company, founded in 1903.
Photograph

Waiting to Load Sacks on Train

Date: 09 1902
Description: Farmers with wagon loads of sacks of potatoes(?), probably waiting to load them on a train.
Photograph

Railroad and Supply Junction

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of a series of three rows of large buildings, possibly used to store supplies. There are railroad tracks alongside each of the buildings. Sno...
Photograph

Elevated View of Railroad Depot

Date: 08 1902
Description: Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ...
Photograph

Gantry Crane and Railroad Cars

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Description: Gantry crane hoisting a large cylindrical object next to a railroad car. A man is standing in an open doorway in the operating room of the crane. The sign ...
Photograph

Elroy Roundhouse

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Description: Elevated view of the roundhouse for the Chicago North Western Railway, one of two Elroy roundhouses during the railroad boom. This roundhouse has 20 stalls...
Photograph

Elroy Roundhouse and Railroad Yard

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Description: View of the Chicago North Western Railroad Roundhouse in Elroy. There are several train cars sitting on multiple sets of railroad tracks on the left. There...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin

Date: 1924
Description: This map shows streets, selected buildings, railroads, railway yards, schools, parks, schools, cemeteries, bays, the Milwaukee River, and Lake Michigan. De...
Photograph

Engine No. 1224

Date: 1914
Description: Railroad workers posing in front of locomotive Engine No. 1224 at Stowell Station. From left to right are Fireman John F. Fohey, yardmaster John Rice, Waym...
Photograph

Engine No. 931

Date: 
Description: View down railroad tracks towards engineer Louis Peterson standing in the gangway next to Engine No. 931. Another man is standing on the tracks near one of...
Photograph

Engine No. 934

Date: 
Description: The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Engine No. 934, Class H6, sitting on the railroad tracks next to a train car.
Postcard

Narrow Gauge Train

Date: 1908
Description: Sepia-toned oval-shaped photographic view of men posing with a narrow gauge train at the Fennimore Depot. Flowers surround the photograph. Caption reads: "...
Postcard

R. R. Yards

Date: 1908
Description: View of the railroad yards. Factories and warehouses are on the left. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards, Hartford, Wis."
Photograph

Railroad Yard at Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: View of a loading platform by the railroad track at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East Mifflin...

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