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Lumber Piled on Train Cars and in Yard

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Description: View of a trainyard, with several carloads of lumber on the train. Men are standing on the lumber. Additionally, several large stacks of lumber are in the ...
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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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Gisholt Machine Company Railroad Yard

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards the loading platform at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company located at the 1400 block of East ...
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Lumber at Railroad Yard

Date: 11 20 1920
Description: Elevated view of lumber stacked in a railroad yard. A man is standing inside a New York Central Lines railroad car in the background on the left. Two men a...
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Gisholt Machine Company Railroad Yard

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards the loading dock at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400 block of East Mif...
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North Western Railroad Concrete Coal Chute Demolition

Date: 08 01 1957
Description: North Western Railroad employees attempt to demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard at Commercial and Sherman Avenues. Groups of me...
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North Western Railroad Concrete Coal Chute Demolished

Date: 08 01 1957
Description: North Western Railroad employees attempt to demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard at Commercial and Sherman Avenue. The first att...
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North Western Railroad Concrete Coal Chute Demolished

Date: 08 01 1957
Description: North Western Railroad employees attempt to demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard at Commercial and Sherman Avenues. After the du...
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North Western Railroad Concrete Coal Chute Demolished

Date: 08 02 1957
Description: North Western Railroad employees demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard, at Commercial and Sherman Avenues, on their second attemp...
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Firemen Fighting Fire at Abandoned North Western Railway Ice House

Date: 09 28 1957
Description: Three firemen are spraying water on a fire at the abandoned North Western Railway ice house, located on South Brearly Street along the railroad tracks betw...
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Railroads — I-4

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Railroads — I-4." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "I-4 owned by Boston & Maine Railroad, Boston, Mass. Used with Anderson p...
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Railroads — I-4

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Railroads — I-4." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "I-4 owned by Boston & Maine Railroad, Boston, Mass. Used with Anderson p...
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Retiring Railroad Conductor

Date: 12 31 1957
Description: Patrick J. Donnelly (left) on his last day of work after serving as conductor with the North Western Railway for 52 years. K.M. Prenot (right), a brakeman ...
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Dump Truck at Railroad Yard

Date: 10 18 1928
Description: Elevated view of a dump truck on a railroad platform. Railroad cars are behind the truck, and buildings and trees are in the background.
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Men Posing wih a Large Flag

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Description: Group portrait of men lined up outdoors in a train yard, in front of an American flag. They are all wearing suits and hats, and three men have boutonnieres...
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New IBM Machines at North Western Railroad Yard

Date: 08 29 1958
Description: R. E. Gilbert posing behind a desk-sized IBM machine, known as a integrated-data processor. Gilbert holds in his hand a punched paper roll containing up-to...
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New IBM Machines at North Western Railroad Yard

Date: 08 29 1958
Description: North Western railroad yard employee John Eith is shown with punch cards in hand by a new IBM "accounting apparatus". He is "awaiting information from one ...
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Silver Ribbons

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of parallel tracks in a railroad yard, with a locomotive pulling a boxcar. A man is standing near the boxcar. On the right are buildings, and...
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Railroad Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 07 1907
Description: View down railroad tracks in a railroad yard at McCormick Works. There is a train along tracks on the left, and men are standing in the yard in the distanc...
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Railroad Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 10 16 1907
Description: Railroad yard, with railroad cars on the right, and a fence and brick factory building on the left.

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