Milwaukee road

High quality photograph of Milwaukee Road GE EF-4 # MILW E70 at Unknown, Montana, USA.

This past weekend Linda and I had the opportunity to visit the Milwaukee Road depot in Cle Elum, Washington. This is definitely worth the stop if one gets the chance when traveling along I-90 between Seattle and Spokane. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) South Cle Elum Rail Yard located in South Cle Elum, Washington, was a division point on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad's Coast Division. It was established by the railroad in 1909…

The F7 ran in regular everyday service with a full passenger train at 125mph & at times slightly above that to as high as 132mph, the F7 also had Twice the H...

MILW, Lawler, Iowa, 1979 Westbound Milwaukee Road freight train near Lawler, Iowa, on October 4, 1979. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund, © 2016, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Bjorklund-68-18-16

Looking east from the 35th St viaduct in Milwaukee WI in June 1967. From a Kodachrome slide. Photographer unknown.

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by guest contributor Larry Sakar, author of Speedrail: Milwaukee’s Last Rapid Transit? (published in 1991 by Interurbans Press). We thank Larry, Ch…

Milwaukee Road Sky Top Lounge on a train being puled by Canadian Pacific 2816 in Franklin Park, Illinois Milwaukee Road Historical Society: www.mrha.com/ Friends of 261: www.261.com/ Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Road From Wikipedia: The Milwaukee Road, officially the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P RR) (reporting mark MILW), was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwest and Northwest of the United States from 1847 until its merger into the Soo…

Milwaukee Road MP15AC No. 474 shoves across North Avenue on the Goose Island Line.

Milwaukee Road (East) by John F. Bjorklund – Center for Railroad Photography & Art