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| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Pacific Railway's route from New York to California, encouraging people to "Go and See the Great American Pa... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Five railroad employees pose on Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1223 at the Chestnut Street yard. Left to right are yardman Jack Meyer, ya... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Engine no. 1009 of the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway with engineer Charles S. Pollard seated in the cab. On the ground from the left are switchman... |
| 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%. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of women and children and one man pose standing on the railroad tracks behind a saddle back train. On the low hill behind them is a log building, a... |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards passengers, a large group of men and one young girl, waiting on the platform at the train station for the train to arri... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Landscape view of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. There is a barn near a tree further down the field. In the distance a railroad tra... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a work train on railroad tracks on a railroad bridge, over a river, that is under construction. Several workmen are standing and posing on... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several workmen standing on a platform near the shoreline of the Wisconsin River during construction of a railroad bridge. There is a work... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Switchman standing at the switch next to railroad tracks cut through a rock formation. Another man is standing on top of the rock formation on the left. In... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Several men pose on a station platform in front of a locomotive and railroad car at the end of the railroad tracks. A man standing in the center is wearing... |
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