Milwaukee Foodies
View allAll Photos Tagged milwaukee
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.
Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Detail of the family crypt for Valentin Blatz (1826 to 1894). Blatz purchased a brewery and later expanded the buildings until they covered more than four city blocks. In 1874, he produced Milwaukee’s first bottled beer. The company was incorporated in 1889 as the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company. Blatz was also prominent in banking, railroad promotion and real estate.
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
All Rights Reserved
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.
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:
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.
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.
On an overcast day in Milwaukee, Lonnie captures this image from his SD40-2 while waiting for the lineup in front of The Milwaukee Road's yard office. To the right, the Soo Line job from Fond Du Lac can be seen in the clear waiting for their outbound train to be built.
Muskego Yard
Milwaukee, WI.
May 1981
Lonnie Maves photo
D.A.Longley collection
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
All Rights Reserved
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
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
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....
milwaukeerecord.com/film/watch-hoan-alone-a-short-documen...
UP YPR60A hovers over Milwaukee Avenue as it spots the upper level of Blommer. The yellow brick building adjacent to the tracks was the C&NW Express Terminal, now Pickens and Kane. In the distance, surrounded by high-rises, was the C&NW corporate office building, originally a Butler Brothers building and now redeveloped into apartment housing.
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
...on Wells Street. Here we see on their lunch break some gents in town for the annual "Rube from Milwaukee" convention....
Amtrak train 8, the eastbound 'Empire Builder' pokes between the buildings surrounding the former Milwaukee Road main line at Seeboth St, where searchlights still guard a set of crossovers, which number eight is taking advantage of to switch to the "northbound" main.
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 sun poked out from behind the clouds for a few shots, as the ELS 1221 trodded through the grass southbound to Green Bay. There's still a few nods to the former owner of this railroad poking out of the weeds here and there, if you know where to look.
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
Passing the tower at Milwaukee Junction in March 1969, a Central Vermont Alco S4 that made its way to the GTW is on one of the many switching jobs that used to be all over Detroit during the golden age of auto manufacturing. The tower and the power are both long gone. Photo by Emery Gulash.
Near Channing, Michigan at sundown this Milwaukee Road freight is struggling with tonnage and worn out loco's back in November of 1978.
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.
Rebuilt AC4400CWM CP 8027 pops off the Mississippi River lift bridge eastbound at MP 391.1 on the River Subdivision leading CPKC train 260 (St Paul to Deramus Yard in Shreveport, LA). They are approaching the 2nd Street crossing and about to pass the Milwaukee Road era searchlights still guarding the interlocking at the start of double track. This area is rife with relics from railroading's past that make great props including an 1893 built depot just out of sight to the left that is still in use by CPKC as an office.
The bridge here is rather fascinating to me given that it was probably one of the last major capital projects completed by the Milwaukee. This is actually the fourth one on this site and it was built in 1981 replacing a circa 1910 swing bridge. The bridge is 1755 ft in total length including a long curved deck girder trestle on the east side and a Warren truss span that date from the 1910 rebuilding while the towers, 325 lift span, and approaches are all from the 1981 reconstruction. The fact that the trustees of the bankrupt (since 1977) Milwaukee Road were convinced to approve such a major project while simultaneously in the process of liquidating over two thirds of the railroad's trackage serves as a testament to how important this route was seen to the company.
Historically the first rails here date to the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad which completed a line between Minneapolis and Minnesota City in 1870. A year later the road was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and remained a core mainline of the 'Milwaukee Road' for the entirety of its existence. In 1986 it became the property of the Soo Line, itself a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific and in 2023 it is now a key link in the new CPKC's Canada to Mexico network. With traffic only forecasted to grow as a result of the merger, the decision to invest in this bridge forty years ago seems rather prescient.
Hastings, Minnesota
Saturday May 6, 2023
The photo is from the Juneau Avenue Bridge looking toward the Highland Avenue pedestrian bridge. The brick building on the right is the Riverfront Plaza at 1110 North Old World 3rd Street, which houses restaurants, bars, and business offices. The tall building on the left is the Milwaukee Center Office Tower and the skyscraper beyond is the Faison Building. On the far left is the top of the Milwaukee City Hall. In the distant center is the Germania Building, built in 1896, with its copper pickelhaube domes.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
MY179918HDRm