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Railroads — I-4

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Railroads — I-4." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "I-4 owned by Boston & Maine Railroad, Boston, Mass. Used with Anderson p...
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Railroad Yard at McCormick Works

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Description: View of the railroad yard at McCormick Works. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and there is a locomotive near a railroad track turnaround. There is a...
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Triangle Redevelopment Project in Winter

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Description: Aerial view of the Greenbush neighborhood in winter partially demolished for the Triangle Redevelopment Project. Monona Bay and Brittingham park are at rig...
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Triangle Redevelopment Project

Date: 1967
Description: Air view looking north toward Lake Mendota. The intersection of West Washington Ave. and S. Park Street is at bottom center. The Triangle Redevelopment Pro...
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Elroy Roundhouse

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Description: Elevated view of the roundhouse for the Chicago North Western Railway, one of two Elroy roundhouses during the railroad boom. This roundhouse has 20 stalls...
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Wisconsin Soldiers Pose on Locomotive

Date: 10 08 1944
Description: Five railroad soldiers pose on a locomotive near the roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. From Wisconsin are, (top) Se...
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Church Service in Cherbourg

Date: 10 08 1944
Description: Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us...
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Church Service in Roundhouse

Date: 10 08 1944
Description: Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us...
Postcard

Scene in Railroad Yards

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Description: Photographic postcard of the railroad yards. Elevated view of railroad tracks and switch-yard, with steam rising behind a brick building on the left. Railr...
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Trolley Cars and Depot

Date: 1909
Description: View of trolley cars and a depot. Three men are standing on the left near parked cars. In the background is a roundhouse.
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Depot and Train

Date: 1917
Description: View of a train approaching the depot. Two men stand alongside the train. Heavy smoke from the train causes a fog cloud.
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Aerial View of Milwaukee Railroad Roundhouse

Date: 1956
Description: Aerial view of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad station, roundhouse, and yard at the intersection of West Washington Avenue (across lower left...
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Aerial View of the Isthmus

Date: 1908
Description: A panoramic aerial view of the Isthmus taken from a kite. Lake Mendota is to the right in the background with Picnic Point jutting into the lake. The photo...
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Portage Turn Table and Pump House

Date: 1885
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul engine #689 on the turn table, surrounded by railroad employees. The pump house is in the background.
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Wisconsin & Michigan Employees

Date: 1907
Description: Employees of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad posing in the roundhouse.
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Chicago Milwaukee and Saint Paul Locomotive No. 71

Date: 1883
Description: CM&StP Railway locomotive no. 71 and a coal car at a roundhouse.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Yard

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway yard and roundhouse (left) on South Oakland Avenue.
Postcard

Soo Round House at Abbottsford

Date: 1909
Description: The Soo line roundhouse. Caption reads: "Soo Round House, Abbottsford, Wis."
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Racine Roundhouse

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Description: The locomotive "D.K. Bush," which was built in the Racine shops of the Western Union Railroad in 1879, the same year in which the line came into the posses...
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Wisconsin Central Railroad Depot

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin Central Railroad passenger depot at Stuntz Avenue. A group of people stand on the platform and near the locomotive between t...

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