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MEC&MC Gantry Crane Constructing the L.I.R.R.

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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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First Steam Passenger Train

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Description: Woodcut image of the first steam passenger train ever run in the United States. The locomotive pulls a wood car and two passenger cars.
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Railroad Tracks

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Description: Elevated view of men working on the railroad tracks. There are locomotives and railroad cars on the tracks. Some children are standing on the tracks near t...
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Tree Nursery Truck

Date: 1925
Description: An International Model S truck owned by T.W. Rice is parked alongside an opened railroad boxcar as a man unloads a plant from the truck bed.

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