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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad tracks are in the foreground below. A partially built smokestack is in the center. A number of c... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards a group of glee, banjo and mandolin club members posing in front of a University of Wisconsin banner on the Chicago and... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A photographer is walking near railroad tracks at a railroad crossing, with an automobile at the crossing in the background on the right. The photographer ... |
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| Description: | View towards the front of Locomotive #2039 stopped at the Fremont Depot. A conductor is walking alongside the train on the right. Caption reads: "Soo Line ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from roof of railroad tracks and stacks of lumber in a yard near a factory. Two men are working in the yard in the background on the right. T... |
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| Description: | Intercity Light Rail Trolley on the tracks in front of the ticket office. Caption reads: "Mil. Northern R'y Ticket Office, Grafton, Wis." |
| 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... |
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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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| Description: | Elevated group portrait of men posing in front of the J.H. Findorff, Contractor, Planing Mill & Lumber Yard building. A smaller brick building on the far r... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | At the crossing at Monroe and Regent Streets, the flagman activates warning lights before the stopped Illinois-Central train proceeds across the crossing. ... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Illinois Central flagman R.D. DeRoche walking along the railroad tracks at the Monroe and Regent Streets crossing ahead of the engine after he activated wa... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Brakeman R.D. DeRoche pressing the button to deactivate the warning lights as the Illinois Central train passes the intersection with Monroe and Regent Str... |
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| Description: | Bosnian railway official examining the rail bed in Montenegro. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down a set of two railroad tracks towards the Mauston Railroad Station on the right, and an approaching train on the left set of tracks. Workers and p... |
| Date: | 09 20 1928 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving yard of IH plant. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and a large smokestack is in the background on the right. |
| Date: | 09 03 1912 |
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| Description: | View from elevated railroad platform towards the yard with brick buildings in the background. An open railroad car on a lower set of tracks is in the foreg... |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of railroad workers posing for a group portrait on the rails. Three men are standing on a handcar. They all are holding the implements they use in the... |
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