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| 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: | Letterhead of John J. Sherman, a real estate broker and tax, title, collection, and passenger agent in Wausau, Wisconsin, with images of men felling trees ... |
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| Description: | View down railroad platform of crowd of people waiting at the Ridgewood Depot, built in 1916 by architects W.W. Drinker and Frank A. Howard. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd boarding a passenger car at the railroad depot. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Topeka Railroad Depot on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. To the left of the station stands the Wells Fargo & Company Express buil... |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered on railroad tracks near passenger cars outside Southern Pacific Depot, built in 1880. Published by S. Friedman. |
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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. |
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| Description: | Two men posed by the locomotive of a freight train on railroad tracks, probably by the coal shed at Millston. The two-wheeled express wagon on the platform... |
| Date: | 08 1988 |
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| Description: | "The engineer waves as the steam locomotive bears down the track." |
| 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: | 08 30 1957 |
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| Description: | While standing on the steps of a passenger car, North Western Railway conductor C.R. Odekirk is preparing for his final run on the Dakota 400. He is retiri... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Wallis tractors featuring an a side-view illustration of a man using a tractor in a farm field. The farmer is waving to a train running a... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards depot with railroad train pulling into the station. Passengers are waiting on the platform, and other people are standing... |
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| Description: | View towards railroad depot with trains on railroad tracks on the left and right. In the foreground is a pile of gravel. There is a group of people on and ... |
| 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: | 12 06 1910 |
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| Description: | View from snowy ditch looking down side of stock train. The engineer is looking out of the locomotive window, and another man stands on the tracks near the... |
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| Description: | The fast movement was a nervous reach for something west. But along the way there was no hurry. Wait for noontime, turned round to a movement eastward,<... |
| 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... |
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