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I started shooting slides near the end of 1984, when I was 17 years old. I made it just in time to catch the final year of the Milwaukee Road. I finally now got a scanner to scan some slides. Thanks for some help from Dave Beach, with the scanner tips. I still need to figure it out, but here is one that came out halfway decent.
Here we see WB Milwaukee Road Train #228 At Davis Junction, on its way to Kansas City, on 7-21-1985. I believe I was with Jeff Cwan, Dave Fasules, and Leyton Hemmert.
Help out my daughter, contribute your pictures to the MKE elevate campaign. Come on all you Milwaukee area artists, what do you see around the city that is making Milwaukee healthy or unhealthy. Email your pictures to MKEelevate@milwaukee.gov
The Milwaukee Road was a train from 1925 to 1928 and then changed it name to (CMStP&P) Chicago, Milwaukee, St, Paul, & Pacific Railroad. That rail lasted into 1977 and was absorbed by SOO Line in 1985.
SOO Line is the US subsidy of CN Canadian Pacific Railroad.
Choo- Choo! - This abandoned old car was found in North Iowa.
The Detroit Connecting jumps on CN rails at Milwaukee Junction to interchange its train at East Yard in Hamtramck.
The shot I was after.
Beginning the climb up after getting their helper up Pipestone, train #200 is on the curve over Basin Creek.
5-19-79
Beneath the Milwaukee skyline, Soo Line train 199 curves toward the North 25th Street overpass on a sunny Wisconsin afternoon of September 12, 1987. The train of matched blue UELX covered hoppers is powered by two former Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2s, with lead motor No. 6365 all dressed up in classic (not) Soo Line “bandit” black patch colors.
Canadian Pacific's US Holiday Train for 2019 lays over in Milwaukee's Muskego Yard as an eastbound manifest with CSX power enters.
Milwaukee North #2131 takes off for Fox Lake behind the ex-GO #530 (METX #98) passing what will become the Fox Lake double-header later that afternoon with the former AMTK #465 and another ex-GO F59PH. Since picking up its first F59 almost seven years ago, Metra has put these engines to good use.
Milwaukee E50 and friend moving freight in the yard at Cedar Falls, WA, 5-71. A couple of these 1915 built boxcabs were preserved for display- This one, Unit E50A+B (originally 10200A+B), the first one built, is at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota. Unit E57B, originally 10211B, is now preserved at Harlowton, Montana.
Original slide in my collection, photographer unknown.
UP's Marsh Job picks up an empty boxcar at National Warehouse Corp in Milwaukee's Harbor View area. The crew is shoving all the way to the end of the short spur in order to make the hitch as a dip in the spur created difficulties coupling. The car was spotted Monday of that week, having been only the second load in about two months. High water levels and well below freezing temperatures had kept the KK River swing bridge frozen in the open position the previous week, resulting in two switches for the customer this week. The crew would replace the empty with another load of bagged salt/aggregate before returning to Jones Island. Milwaukee, WI
After arriving at the Cut Off from Waukesha, Lonnie captures an image of the scene from the cab of an SD10 while waiting for permission to yard his train.
Cut Off
Milwaukee, WI.
October 1975
Lonnie Maves photo
D.A.Longley collection
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Milwaukee's Art Museum, situated on the shore of Lake Michigan is an architectural marvel. The distinctive structure is shown here with it's wings retracted . The wings, composed of 72 separate fins extend to a 217' wingspan. The newest portion of the building was designed by Santiago Calatrava and was finished in 2001.
Wisconsin & Southern train T4R, rolls westbound toward Milton just east of Palmyra with quite a mixed consist of power, including WAMX 1594, which started it's career as Milwaukee Road 496. The Milwaukee built Harley Davidson Soft-tail's rider, thought it was pretty neat that the trailing locomotive once called The Milwaukee Road it's home for nearly a decade.
WSOR T4R
WAMX 4188
HLCX 6313
WAMX 4172
3893
1594
Palmyra, WI.
Summer 2017
The Milwaukee City Hall is a skyscraper and town hall located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was finished in 1895, and was Milwaukee's tallest building until completion of the First Wisconsin Center in 1973. In 1973 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) built 29 of these 3,000horsepower C630C's and M's for the Canadian Pacific in August 1968, using the ALCO 251 prime mover. Here, CP 4504 trails out of Milwaukee on a Chicago bound freight. These big MLW's graced the "new" CP for a short time before being retired from the roster in the early 90's. Not long after this photo was taken, the CP 4504 was sold to Engine System Development Centre in Lachine QC as a test cell locomotive (ESDC 1). I have no further information on it's fate.
CP 4504
Milwaukee, WI.
June 1992
As Lonnie is shuffling power around at The Milwaukee Road's diesel house in Milwaukee, he captured this frame of the facility looking west near the Cut Off.
Milwaukee Road Service Area
Milwaukee, WI.
August 1974
Lonnie Maves Photo
D.A.Longley Collection
All Rights Reserved
Milwaukee Road Geeps 953, 308, 312 and 282 occupy the radial tracks of the east roundhouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 23, 1981. I came across this photo while researching rooftop details on Milwaukee Road GP9's, in particular the variations on the phase III GP9 winterization hatches. Jim Lewnard photo
The late spring sun is slowly shedding light on the locomotive terminal at Milwaukee Junction in Detroit on June 5, 1961. Steam has made a return a year after being removed from scheduled passenger service, however, some steam lingered into 1961 in freight service before being completely retired. In a few hours, the 6323 would pull a passenger excursion special out of Brush Street west out of Detroit to the joy of many fans and passengers. The locomotive would sit for many years and was eventually sold to the Illinois Railway Museum in 1981, where it still resides today. Photographer unknown.
Built in March 1966 by the Electro Motive Division of General Motors, The Milwaukee Road's 3000 horsepower GP40, 190, was in charge of the hottest trains on the massive system. In the late sixties, the 190 was renumbered to MILW 2010, where it would remain until getting SOO markings in 1986. On May 14, 2012, still working for the CP/SOO in a diminished capacity, the SOO 2010 works the G64 "Watertown Patrol" and showing it's neglect by the owner. The original number that EMD applied to the locomotive in La Grange IL. is more visible than it's re-numbering. Last year, after being deemed no longer needed by the locomotives third owner, the Canadian Pacific, the once proud steed was reduced to scrap iron and recycled.
Below is a link to a piece of this locomotive.
This weeks Saturday Night Special is MILW U25B 5051 leading a train near seemingly always busy Cut-Off tower in Milwaukee. Credit goes to Mike Hoff for this fine view of MILW U-boat action after they made there late 70's return to the Midwest. May 31, 1978. Chuck Schwesinger collection.
Panorama of the Milwaukee skyline from across the frozen harbor. Captured at South Shore Park in Milwaukee, WI USA.