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The Great railway strikes--scenes in and about Chicago / from sketches by G.A. Coffin.
Pioneer locomotive C. & N.W. R.R. First locomotive to run out of Chicago, built ca. 1862
The great railway strikes - scenes in and about Chicago / from sketches by G.A. Coffin.
Cripple Creek, Colo., U.S.A. On line D. & R. G. R. R. [Denver & Rio Grande Railway].
View of the great railroad wreck The most appalling railroad disaster on the Continent, on the T.P. & W.R.R. near Chatsworth, Illinois, of the Niagara Excursion Train, at midnight, August 10th, 1887 ; From south, showing sleeper "Tunis," the height and width of the culvert 5 1/2 by 8 feet, the cause of the wreck, and seventeen pairs of trucks in one pile / / Harlan Holferty, view artist.
Chicago, Illinois. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad conductor, George E. Burton, getting his train orders at Corwith Yard before leaving for Chillicothe, Illinois
View of the great railroad wreck The most appalling railroad disaster on the Continent, on the T.P. & W.R.R. near Chatsworth, Illinois, of the Niagara Excursion Train, at midnight, August 10th, 1887 ; Shows the general destruction of the timbers between Superintendent Armstrong's car and the culvert / / Harlan Holferty, view artist.
View of the great railroad wreck The most appalling railroad disaster on the Continent, on the T. P. & W.R.R. near Chatsworth, Illinois, of the Niagara Excursion Train, at midnight, August 10th, 1887 ; From north side, looking east, showing distinctively a portion of the nine cars which were piled in a space 40 x 60 feet / / Harlan Holferty, view artist.
Railway heads. Washington, D.C., March 11. M.W. Clement, (left) President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Daniel Willard, Prexy of the B&O, pictured at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Railroads here today. The Executives were called into special session to seek a relief for the "critical financial condition" of the Nation's largest industry, 31138
Arrival of the first train at Cripple Creek over the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad, July 1, 1894. Accident to the train on its return trip. The Great railway strikes--the first meat train leaving the Chicago [stoc]k-yards under escort of United States Cavalry, July 10, 1894 / / drawn by G.W. Peters from a sketch by G.A. Coffin
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Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1894 July 28, p. 701.
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01/01/1894
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