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.

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Its Nov 1978 Northbound train 413 heading to Dubuque Iowa and Marquette is highballing out of Samoa Iowa .I'm on top of route 64 bridge with car trouble to get this shot [Happy F-unit Friday

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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.

CP 281 departs Milwaukee behind a retro-painted SD70ACU and a BNSF GEVO.

While working the Amtrak Hiawatha service between Milwaukee and Chicago, Lonnie captured this image from a Turboliner, of the Ford Fast holding just south of the Milwaukee depot, as his train crosses over onto the eastbound main.

Lonnie Maves Photo

D.A.Longley Collection

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For several years in the early 1990’s, Amtrak would borrow some equipment from Chicago’s Metra to sub for Amtrak trains on the Chicago to Milwaukee “Hiawatha” corridor on Thanksgiving weekend. This would allow Amtrak to move the passenger cars and locomotives normally used on the run and expand capacity on other trains to handle increased holiday ridership. On November 30, 1991, Metra EMD E8(A) No. 518 and three bi-level commuter coaches sits inside the trainshed at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Amtrak station waiting for departure back to Chicago.

A beautiful afternoon March sun lights the scene for Lonnie, as he departs Milwaukee's Amtrak depot on 202's train and meets westbound train 205 in the curve with a western visitor trailing in consist.

MILW Train 205

MILW 143,D&RGW 5357

Milwaukee, WI.

March 1984

Lonnie Maves photo,

D.A.Longley collection

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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.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee at night from the Wells Street Bridge

261 arriving back at Minneapolis Junction after spending the weekend at St. Paul Union Depot for the annual Train Days event. In tow is EMD NW-5, Great Northern 192 from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum followed by Milwaukee Road 32A.

Full video on YouTube at:

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...in grand style.

Here is a look down the ramp at The Milwaukee Road's facility in the Menominee River Valley, as Lonnie framed it up looking under the 35th street viaduct.

Milwaukee Shops

Milwaukee, WI.

March 1980

Lonnie Maves Photo

D.A.Longley Collection

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.

A trio of Milwaukee Road locomotives, led by EMD SD40-2 No. 146, leads Lakes States (Soo Line) train 18 at Brookfield, Wisconsin, on the morning of June 13, 1987. The train is passing a mishap to the right, and the scene does have a ‘Milwaukee Road ills at the end’ look even though it’s now technically Soo. The boxcar to on its side is likely due to the bad condition of the track in the siding and crossover switch, combined with a little too much speed rolling through it. With the car clear of the track, its back to business and clean up the mess later.

Lake States Transportation Division was set up by the Soo Line to spin off some of its system, much of it former Soo Line main lines and branches, after the Milwaukee Road merger on January 1, 1986. Most of these lines became Wisconsin Central on October 11, 1987.

The trackage going off to the left is the junction switch for the Milwaukee line to Waukesha, Milton Junction and Janesville. By the time of this photograph, portion of this route from Brookfield to Waukesha was out-of-service and red flagged.

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

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The Milwaukee Road began in 1847 and represented railroad lines from Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific. It enjoyed success until the 1970's when railroads saw a decline in passengers.

February 17, 2019

National Museum Of Transportation

St. Louis, Missouri

A warm and overcast day in Milwaukee, finds Lonnie framing this image of The Milwaukee Road's diesel house in Milwaukee. Being a diehard Milwaukee Road fan, even until it's doors were shuttered, hanging out on the 35th st viaduct or along St Paul ave and Greves st was time well spent in my mind, and I am grateful for Lonnie capturing these images that bring the memories back.

Milwaukee Road Diesel House

Milwaukee, WI.

June 1976

Lonnie Maves Photo

D.A.Longley Collection

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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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Photograph 2014, Scan 2026

The houses along Milwaukee Avenue (formerly 22-1/2 Avenue) were the 1880s version of affordable housing; timber frames on quarter lots with no front yard. They were built because in a decade from 1880 to 1890 the population of Minneapolis nearly quadrupled, a lot because of immigration. They were nearly torn down in the 1960s as they had fallen into disrepair, but they were saved and stand as an architectural feat and legacy today.

I have printed this as a 16x20 silver gelatin print, but scanning them is a pain in the neck.

Minolta AF-E Point and Shoot / Kodak Tri-X @EI200 / Harvey's Panthermic 777 developer / Film scan / Epson V700 / SIlverfast / Adobe CS

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Milwaukee 5052 rolls through Roundout on 6-18-78. Lee Hastman photo

Coming in close.

Milwaukee River, Milwaukee WI

There's a lot to see here - the Hoan Bridge, the yellow truck passing by, the Pierhead Light, the Breakwater, the walkway, the red railing, water, sky, trees, etc. It's a busy shot....

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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.

A pair of CP GP20C-ECOs work the East end of Muskego yard on a dreary day in Milwaukee, WI.

Sheboygan empties make their way south, up high over the Milwaukee River in Glendale

Milwaukee "Little Joe" E74 @ Deer Lodge, Mt. (Nov 1973)*

Kodachrome my collection, George Horna photographer.

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

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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

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

Quadracci Pavilion by Santiago Calatrava 2001 L1020447

Amtrak 338, the southbound Hiawatha, winds through downtown before making the sprint to Chicago.

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.

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.

Milwaukee Road 109-A leads two B units past the depot at Amasa, Michigan on Sept. 9, 1979. In March 1980 this line and all the Milwaukee lines in Upper Michigan save the branch to Menominee will become the property of the Escanaba & Lake Superior.

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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.