Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 63

Photograph

Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad

Date: 1884
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...
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 542

Date: 1900
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway engine #542, class H4, built by Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1882. Renumbered 773 In April of 1899, 226 in Octo...
Photograph

Wisconsin & Michigan Locomotive at Marinette

Date: 05 24 1936
Description: A Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad pulling into the station at Marinette. The conductor on the step has been identified as Ray Campbell.
Photograph

Waukesha Scoot

Date: 1894
Description: View across railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #212, also known as the Waukesha Scoot, at Milwaukee's Union Depot.
Photograph

Milwaukee Road Railroad

Date: 08 1974
Description: View down double set of railroad tracks towards a Milwaukee Road train, with the engineer about to board. Other men are standing in the background.
Photograph

Four Women in front of Factory

Date: 
Description: Four women workers standing in front of the Four Wheel Drive Factory.
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 186

Date: 1908
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway locomotive no. 186, a class G-5 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1892, on service on the La Crosse Division...
Photograph

Special Railroad Train

Date: 1904
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 ...
Photograph

Tanana Valley Railroad

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Tanana Mine Railway

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Lehigh Valley Train Yard and Shops

Date: 
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.
Photograph

Roundhouse Train Depot

Date: 
Description: View of west yards train depot roundhouse. Railroad workers pose with locomotive engines in the roundhouse. The train in the foreground, no. "804," is on a...
Photograph

Train Engines Lined Up

Date: 
Description: Railroad workers pose near train engines lined up in a wooden roundhouse garage facility. The number on the train in the foreground is "1252."
Photograph

The Kinzua Viaduct

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a train crossing the Kinzua Viaduct, a railroad trestle which spans a valley. The train appears to be parked, with one man posing on top o...
Photograph

Railroad Car and Engine Ferry

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Resurfacing the Highway

Date: 
Description: A view on men resurfacing rural sections of U.S. Highway, with machinery and a small train running alongside the road.
Photograph

Workers on Strike

Date: 
Description: Workers on strike march with signs near a railroad crossing.
Photograph

Engine No. 80 Locomotive Wreck

Date: 
Description: Men pose around the remains of runaway train Engine No. 80 after it crashed and the boiler exploded on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway.
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 518

Date: 
Description: View of locomotive engine no. 518 on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. Two men are posing on the train.
Photograph

VIew from B. & O. Station

Date: 1925
Description: View from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, established in 1830. The city's dwellings and establishments can be seen on a hillside from the railroa...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: