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Photograph

Railroad Log Car

Date: 
Description: A railroad flatbed car loaded with logs and sitting on railroad tracks.
Postcard

Railroad Depot

Date: 1890
Description: Railroad depot with train approaching the station. Caption reads: "Depot Scene, Stanley, Wis."
Property Record

Across Tributary to Chippewa River

Community: Arthur
County: Chippewa
Historic Name: Chicago & North Western Railroad Trestle
Reference Number: 229652
Photograph

Crane Lifting Logs at Logging Camp

Date: 1904
Description: At Hein's logging camp, a crane mounted on a railroad train lifts logs onto a flatbed railway car. Other logs are stacked on the snowy ground. A number of ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Grown Near Ruby, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Photomontage of two giant green apples resting on top of a flatbed railroad car. Caption reads: "Grown near Ruby, Wis." Marking on the side of the railroa...
Photograph

Sugar Factory

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Description: A steam locomotive moves along a set of railroad tracks near a sugar beet processing plant with a tall smokestack. There are several small outbuildings in ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

First railroad - how built

Date: 1913-05-04
County: Chippewa
City: Chippewa Falls
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Chippewa's first railroad came in fifty years ago

Date: 1925-07-02
County: Chippewa
City: Chippewa Falls
Photograph

Chippewa Falls Riverfront

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the riverfront, railroad tracks, and river, "as viewed from Joseph McGuire's."
Property Record

CHIPPEWA RIVER

Community: Chippewa Falls
County: Chippewa
Historic Name: Soo Line Railroad Bridge
Reference Number: 3213
Property Record

214 FLEET ST

Community: Chippewa Falls
County: Chippewa
Historic Name: Soo Railroad Turntable
Reference Number: 38332
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Grand event to Chippewa was first railroad

Date: 1925-07-01
County: Chippewa
City: Chippewa Falls
Photograph

Ruins of Cyclone — Canning Factory

Date: 08 07 1924
Description: View across railroad tracks of the canning factory in the aftermath of a tornado. The top of the brick structure and the smokestack has been blown off. Pil...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Coming of the first railroad forty years ago

Date: 1915-02-21
County: Chippewa
City: Chippewa Falls
Postcard

Wagon Bridge and C.L. & B. Co.'s Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view looking east and upstream from the shoreline towards the wide Chippewa River. The water level is nearly up to the railroad tracks in the fore...
Property Record

214 FLEET ST

Community: Chippewa Falls
County: Chippewa
Historic Name: SOO LINE RAILROAD ROUNDHOUSE
Reference Number: 31002
Postcard

New Auburn

Date: 1905
Description: Clockwise from upper left images include: Cutters Point, Long Lake, Wis.; M.E. Church, New Auburn, Wis.; Farmers Store, New Auburn, Wis.; Public School, Ne...
Property Record

CHIPPEWA RIVER/STATE ST

Community: Chippewa Falls
County: Chippewa
Historic Name: Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge
Reference Number: 3211
Photograph

Milk Strike at Stanley

Date: 1932
Description: Crowd gathered for the milk strike at Stanley.
Property Record

214 FLEET ST

Community: Chippewa Falls
County: Chippewa
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 3233

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