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| Description: | Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A work crew of the Upham Lumber and Manufacturing Company near Athens, Wisconsin. The men are riding on a flatbed car of the Abbottsford and Northeastern R... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of men standing on the bridge over west branch of the Wolf River. They are constructing the Wisconsin & Northern railroad bridge. |
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| Description: | Three men stand in the snow in front of the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad engine #2 (the second locomotive with this number) in the woods on the Menominee ... |
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| Description: | Railroad bridge construction at an unknown location somewhere on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad line. There is a church in the background on... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
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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: | 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 the St. Louis-San Francisco train yard and railway shops. Train cars are parked on the track leading into a warehouse. Men are working near the tra... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Right side view of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 632. |
| Date: | 07 15 1915 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 1248, class I5, built by the company's shop in 1912. From left to right are waymaster Harvey Gi... |
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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: | 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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| Description: | Elevated view from bluff overlooking the railroad tracks and yard along the Mississippi River. A group of men are gathered on the track near stacks of lumb... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Group of railroad employees standing in the doorway of a store. |
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| Description: | Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Men posing in the Winneconne Freight Yard. Some of the men stand and sit on two hay wagons, and three men stand on the ground, in front of a box car. Some ... |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of men standing with horses near a locomotive hauling logs through a forest. Two loggers are standing in the center. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated three-quarter view from front left of a Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway locomotive at Hiles Lumber Company. One man is standing ... |
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