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If you live in Milwaukee you'll know that this is probably the most photographed building in the city. That being said- i decided to take a picture of it :)
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.
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.
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
Switch engine for the day.
Quite the overkill for a yard switch engine and the biggest power they could find. However, it was fun watching the behemoth struggle.
9-6-75
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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It has been named the sexiest building in the world, featured in TV ads and shows and Hollywood movies, and it has transformed the city of Milwaukee. In September, the Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates the 10th anniversary of its iconic building, the Quadracci Pavilion, with the exhibition Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Designed by internationally renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, the Quadracci Pavilion was the Spaniard’s first completed commission in the United States. In 2001, it was named Time Magazine’s “Best Design of 2001.”
While hostling locomotives at The Milwaukee Road's diesel house in Milwaukee, Lonnie takes this grab shot of these Fairbanks Morse locomotives that have likely worked their last miles for the road.
Lonnie Maves photo
D.A.Longley Collection
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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.
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.
Four rebuilt Milwaukee Road GP20's pass the Klinkert House at Sturtevant WI. in November 1978. A repost from an earlier post.
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.
Running as sole power on the morning run from St.Maries to Plummer, STMA 101 struggles to keep a reasonable speed as they cross the former Milwaukee Road trestle at Peedee.
Milwaukee Art Museum. The roof of the Quadracci Pavilion. Architect Santiago Calatrava, 2001. In Explore.
The Milwaukee Pierhead Light is an active lighthouse located in the Milwaukee harbor, just south of downtown. This aid to navigation is a 'sister' of the Kenosha North Pier Light. The station was established in 1872. It is west of the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and is near the outflow of the Milwaukee River—not far east of where that river converged with the Kinnickinnic River—into the Milwaukee Harbor and Lake Michigan. This light has a round steel tower with a round gallery and a ten-sided lantern. In 1926, the original 4th Order Fresnel lens was transferred to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and that lens is now displayed at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The Fifth Order Fresnel lens—installed in 1926—was removed in 2005. The tower is newly painted circa 2007. The 5th Order lens is said to be on display also at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. According to one source: "The original lantern room had helical bar windows and is believed to [be] the one presently on the Breakwater Light." This is corroborated by the report that the Breakwater Light has a "round cast iron lantern room [that] features helical astragal" in the lantern. A Submarine cable runs from this light to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, upon which a lighted danger warning is displayed. The light was recently painted, circa 2007. From 1872 until 1926, the light had its own keepers. Thereafter, this light, like all of the lights in the harbor, was serviced by the resident Lighthouse keepers who were stationed at the neighboring North Point Light Station until it was automated. The light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2012.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Pierhead_Light
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and use of electronic navigational systems.
The Milwaukee Breakwater Light on a cold January day stands guard to the opening of the Milwaukee Harbor.
View from the lakefront walkway. Some of the summerfest stages are in this picture. This is a beautiful part of Milwaukee, I hope you enjoy it.
Milwaukee, WI (Milwaukee County)
Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The seat of Milwaukee County, the city is located on Lake Michigan's southwestern shore and was incorporated in 1846. As of the U.S. Census Bureau's July 1, 2019 estimate, Milwaukee had a population of 590,157, making it the 31st largest city in the United States and the fourth-largest city situated along one of the Great Lakes.
The first large wave of settlement to the areas that would later become Milwaukee County and the City of Milwaukee began in 1835, following removal of the tribes in the Council of Three Fires. Early that year it became known that Juneau and Kilbourn intended to lay out competing town-sites. By the year's end both had purchased their lands from the government and made their first sales. There were perhaps 100 new settlers in this year, mostly from New England and other Eastern states. On September 17, 1835, the first election was held in Milwaukee; the number of votes cast was 39. (1)
References (1) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Pierhead Light is an active lighthouse located in the Milwaukee harbor, just south of downtown. This aid to navigation is a 'sister' of the Kenosha North Pier Light. The station was established in 1872. It is west of the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and is near the outflow of the Milwaukee River—not far east of where that river converged with the Kinnickinnic River—into the Milwaukee Harbor and Lake Michigan. This light has a round steel tower with a round gallery and a ten-sided lantern. In 1926, the original 4th Order Fresnel lens was transferred to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and that lens is now displayed at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The Fifth Order Fresnel lens—installed in 1926—was removed in 2005. The tower is newly painted circa 2007. The 5th Order lens is said to be on display also at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. According to one source: "The original lantern room had helical bar windows and is believed to [be] the one presently on the Breakwater Light." This is corroborated by the report that the Breakwater Light has a "round cast iron lantern room [that] features helical astragal" in the lantern. A Submarine cable runs from this light to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, upon which a lighted danger warning is displayed. The light was recently painted, circa 2007. From 1872 until 1926, the light had its own keepers. Thereafter, this light, like all of the lights in the harbor, was serviced by the resident Lighthouse keepers who were stationed at the neighboring North Point Light Station until it was automated. The light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2012.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Pierhead_Light
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and use of electronic navigational systems.