Milwaukee Fs East
In the late 1970s I lived on Iglehart Avenue in St. Paul, about halfway between the two downtowns. My scanner could easily pick up the Milwaukee Road, and the tracks of the Short Line were only a couple blocks from my back yard. So I kept pretty close tabs on the Milwaukee transfer runs between the two cities and could easily duck out the door when I heard one leaving on the radio.
If memory serves I heard this transfer getting ready to leave South Minneapolis, so I hustled out and set up on the shoulder of I-94 with "car trouble." The train has just crossed the Short Line Bridge (most of the train is still on it) and passing Signal Tower, the junction with the line over to the connection with BN near the University of Minnesota on July 11, 1978.
Milwaukee Fs East
In the late 1970s I lived on Iglehart Avenue in St. Paul, about halfway between the two downtowns. My scanner could easily pick up the Milwaukee Road, and the tracks of the Short Line were only a couple blocks from my back yard. So I kept pretty close tabs on the Milwaukee transfer runs between the two cities and could easily duck out the door when I heard one leaving on the radio.
If memory serves I heard this transfer getting ready to leave South Minneapolis, so I hustled out and set up on the shoulder of I-94 with "car trouble." The train has just crossed the Short Line Bridge (most of the train is still on it) and passing Signal Tower, the junction with the line over to the connection with BN near the University of Minnesota on July 11, 1978.