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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Special train from Spooner, Wisconsin, to Union Meeting at St. Paul, Minnesota. Group portrait of men posing on and around the locomotive. A young girl is ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men load I-12 tractors onto a train at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard. Two men walk up a ramp leading into a railroad car. Both men are pushing large i... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Allis-Chalmers plant showing several trains on the tracks next to a large industrial building. The steam engine tender in front of the loc... |
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| Description: | Several men and a child stand near a train equipped with a snow plow. A passenger car sits nearby, and three men, possibly railroad employees, stand on the... |
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| Description: | View of the Tanana Mine Railway train parked in a wooded area. Text on what appears to be a passenger car reads: "T.M.W." Caption reads: "Fairbanks, Alaska... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lehigh Valley train yard with trains, cars full of goods, railroad workers and shops. One of the buildings features two large smokestacks. |
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| Description: | View of a barge transporting railroad cars and an engine across a river. Several men are on the barge, including one on an overhead structure. Text on phot... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men and a police officer stand beside the "Pioneer," an early Chicago and Northwestern Railroad locomotive which is parked beside the Sauk County Court... |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | A man uses a forklift to move boxes of Cub Cadet lawn tractors stacked on wooden pallets onto a train car. The Cub Cadets were manufactured at Internationa... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View of the train depot. A train is stopped at the depot. An automobile is parked on the left. A train conductor and a man stand at the outside. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men unload pieces of lumber from the opened boxcars of a train near the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a railroad engine with passengers before it ascends Mount Washington Railroad's 'Jacob's Ladder,' built around 1868 with a grade of 37.41%. |
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| Description: | An enormous log is secured on a flat rail car parked in a rail yard. Three men are making sure it is fastened properly. More logs are visible on rail cars ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Several men pose while standing alongside a train at the Elroy depot. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad crew with the rock crusher. The train car is labeled '204430' and 'Burlington Route'. A steep hill rises behind... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View down platform of train stopped at a loading dock at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). On the dock is a large stac... |
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