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Minute book of the City Street Railway Company, 1881-1886. The City Steet Railway Company was private and sold their assets in January 1886 to the La Crosse City Railway Company.

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Print copy of the article "Grassroots Rebels: Municipal Power and Railroad Regulation in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1883-1900," which originally appeared online in volume 3 (2005) of Business and Economic History On-Line.

Abstract Print copy of "Hinterland Dreams and Midwestern Rails: Public Power and Railroading in Nineteenth-Century La Crosse, Wisconsin," by Eric John Morser (2009). The article is an examination of how smaller cities took agency to affect railroad routes in the Midwest through a case study of La Crosse, Wis. In closing, Morser explains that historians need to begin including smaller cities, such as La Crosse, Wis., into their research of railroad expansion into the west in order to gain full insight...

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Meeting minutes, 1881-1883, of a special committee of the La Crosse Board of Trade addressing considerations of the La Crosse and Southeastern Railway. City council aldermen may have also been members of this committee.

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Meeting minute book of the La Crosse City Railway Company in Wisconsin. Minutes cover the years 1897-1905. The City Street Railway Company is a predecesor to this organization.

Abstract Resolutions and reports from the Committee on Railroads to the Common Council, 1858-1932. The materials are divided into Railroad Lines and Streetcar Lines; therein, arrangement is chronological. The railroad lines best represented in the series are Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 1899-1932; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 1874-1931; Green Bay lines (i.e. Green Bay & Minnesota; Green Bay & Western), 1873-1932; Milwaukee & St. Paul, 1868-1873, and La Crosse &...