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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad cars that have fallen off the railroad tracks. Two men are crawling on top of the toppled railroad cars. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Northwestern Line railroad accident. Railroad cars have fallen off the railroad tracks and the engine car is lying on its side. Men and ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee railroad yard. The skyline of Milwaukee is in the background. |
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| Description: | View across multiple sets of railroad tracks towards two locomotives at a railroad city yard in Milwaukee (probably the Hiawatha). There is a dense cloud o... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Men walking across a bridge over railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. Railroad train cars are stopped on the tracks and smoke is rising fr... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of train cars that have fallen off the railroad tracks, with men working nearby. |
| Date: | 10 13 1977 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hardhat and carrying a tool is walking along railroad tracks. Caption reads: "A railroad worker walked along a line in the Menomonee Valley... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad yards from the 27th Street viaduct. |
| Date: | 05 1950 |
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| Description: | A commuter train of the Milwaukee, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad, with the tower of Milwaukee's Union Station in the background. The Milwaukee, North Sh... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee rail yards. |
| Date: | 08 06 1917 |
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| Description: | Overlooking the Chicago and North Western railroad depot from Juneau Park bluff. Caption on glass plate reads: "Extention [sic] of Juneau Park, show... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, with other tracks sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the background, ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A Chicago & Northwestern train crossing a railroad bridge. |
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| Description: | The first depot built in Milwaukee, it served the Milwaukee & Waukesha Railroad which became the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad and eventually the Chicag... |
| Date: | 01 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yard, with engines and cars on some of the tracks. Smoke is billowing out from many of the engines, covering much of the yard. Bu... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of large crowd gathered in a railroad yard. Men are gathered around a podium in the middle of the crowd. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Located in West Milwaukee. Trains, cars, tracks, and railroad buildings. The view is taken from the top of a building. |
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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. |
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