Author Preston Cook has posted many of his pictures on the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library website. These are in his Milwaukee...
There's a new railcam at my old stomping grounds in Chicago. It's mounted on the former powerhouse stack overlooking the throat of the former...
I'm hoping that someone can fill me in on why UP passenger trains serving Chicago via Omaha moved off the C&NW in favor of the MILW in the...
I am reading Brian Solomon's Classic Railroad Signals (c. 2015) and thoroughly enjoying it. I was surprised to learn that into the early decades...
There was a time when most Class 1 and even Class 2 railroads maintained a network of off line sales offices to entice new business and to...
Chicago's Metra Commuter Rail system recently uploaded this exceptionally cool cab ride video covering the entire Milwaukee District from...
I was going through some boxes and found this 1970 Milwaukee timetable that I must have picked up as a kid in Union Station in Chicago. I'd...
Some 45 Years ago my mother found this framed Milwaukee Road print at a Chicago garage sale for $5. It's 100% MILW, frame and all. It's in...
Happened upon this 1924 shot of an MILW Bi-Polar electric. Click on the photo to enlarge it. That's one massive unit!...
Presenting the next idea in a fantasy Milwaukee Road. Still here. Plugging along and competing with the big boys. Pressing the envelope here...
Kit bashed N scaleMass Central GP9. This was one of MILW's "GP20" that was created by chopping the noses.
Showing B end...
Showing A End
Note three window side. Most had 4 windows
Called a 'TALL Cupola' caboose. Few made it to this color scheme. #01321 was one of the few. These were 33' cabooses made from boxcars.
Milwaukee 9528 was a 40' double door boxcar that was rebuilt to haul 'veneer' used for making plywood.
Milwaukee Road ad, viewed from NW Hoyt St, Portland, Oregon.
Further progress on detailing an Atlas N scale RSD-5 for a Milwaukee Road prototype.
