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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Eighteen man crew for the Union Pacific Silo Special Trip posing for a group portrait in front of railroad cars. |
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| Description: | Three men posing with the J.M. Turner and Company Railroad Photographer's Car. |
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| Description: | Unidentified group of train ticket agents standing near train. Special excursion. |
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| Description: | Men posed on the front cowcatcher, or pilot, of a wood burning locomotive, with a few cars attached. Three other men pose on the locomotive. |
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| Description: | Kilbourn; little wood burner locomotive (train engine) at crossing. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | An early gasoline-powered handcar being used on the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie line for an inspection tour. The employees are (left to right... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background. |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 02 28 1923 |
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| Description: | A man stands at a small, run-down station while another man sits in an International Model G or 61 truck that has been rigged with railway gears, wheels an... |
| Date: | 11 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Charles Thiede, 2218 Rusk Street, is shown with his crew members before his last round-trip to Chicago. He is retiring after 41 years with the Chicago Nort... |
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| Description: | Men walking near the railroad Crossing Store. Above the store is a bridge providing a walkway over the railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 12 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Roundy's Fun Fund and the Milwaukee Road provided forty children from the remedial department of the Madison public schools with their first train ride to ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Railroad cars loaded with farm equipment on a track near the loading dock of International Harvester's Magdeburg branch house in Germany. |
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| Description: | Double extension gantry crane with a grab-bucket at the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. The crane is stamped with the text "Pawling & Harnischfeger Builders, Mil... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered crane mounted on a 5-ton standard flatbed railroad car with a grab bucket. A man is standing on the ground on rail... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane involved with the construction of the Long Island Railroad. There is a sign on the crane that... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane unloading railroad cars at the Fisher Body Co. There is a sign that reads "The Milwaukee Cran... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | An International Model C-35 is parked near a building. To the right men are working on a locomotive for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The front of another... |
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