Train excursion from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Northernaire, Ontario, Canada, photographs, 1957.

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Train excursion from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Northernaire, Ontario, Canada, photographs, 1957.

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Photographs made by Lefebvre-Luebke Commercial Photographers documenting a ceremonial train excursion from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Northernaire, Ontario, Canada, as a benefit for the proposed National Railroad Museum at Green Bay, September 1957. Included are images of a band, speakers, train cars, and passengers. The engine used for the trip was Engine 79, the last steam locomotive engine on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad line.

8 photographs (1 folder)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924389

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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National Railroad Museum (Green Bay, Wis.)

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Chicago and North Western Railway Company.

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"The Chicago & North Western Railway, created during the late 1850s by the merger of several small railroads in Illinois and Wisconsin, was led during its early years by William B. Ogden, Chicago's first mayor. In 1864, the Chicago & North Western absorbed the Galena & Chicago Union, which in 1848 had been the city's first railroad. Between 1872 and 1910, under the leadership of Marvin Hughitt, the length of track in the road's rail network grew from about 1,400 miles to nearly 10,00...

Lefebvre-Luebke Commercial Photographers.

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