Greg, I edited your first post of this topic to reflect the new link on this forum, If I linked it to the wrong topic please let me know. Your layout is coming along nicely and the scenery work is outstanding :thumbs_up:
The Coast Division was electrified from just east of the Othello yard, to Tacoma Junction. Including Tide Flats Yard in Tacoma. In old passenger days, from Tacoma Junction south to the first passenger station. And from that same main line at Black River (not Junction) to Seattle Union Station. There was also a half mile of electrification on the Everett Line. West of Ellensburg, the route swings away from I-90. Along old US 10. Easiest to follow, if you get off I-90 at Kittitas, and take US 10 thru Eburg. After you pass under the RR bridge west of Eburg, it crosses the Yakima River over to Thorp. Then swings back into the River canyon. Where you can see it from US10 almost to Teanaway. (tee-ANNA-way.) From there, your next access is going into South Cle Elum. West of CM, it's briefly along I-90. Then you can swing off at Easton, and take a dead end back road for a couple miles. Spotting it a couple of times. If the trees haven't blocked all views by now. Thereafter, access is off logging roads, etc, until you see it again along the south shore of Lake Keechelus. (KETCH eh luss.) Then into the tunnel portal at Hyak. (HIGH ak.) :teeth: Boxcab E50
In order to be a Milwaukee Road fan, a prerequisite is that you must definitely be lost! Ha ha ha. Boxcab E50
Heh.. I guess I am a MILW fan, since getting a MILW Lionel set in my birth year.. I have always had a soft spot for the ol' CMStP&P.
What was that quote by the Emperor, about coming over to the dark (in this instance, BRIGHT), side? :thumbs_up: Boxcab E50
I think Jeremiah has been sucked in by all the scenery and whatnot of the old milw ROW, both in Montana and Washington!!! He is slowly evolving into a Milw fan! Instead of selling off your Rio stuff, you could just repaint it! haha J/K
MILW didn't have tunnel motors, so I guess that won't work!:shade: I have been a MILW fan for a long time, but have been getting more and more interested in it since moving to MILW country.
Actually, they did! That was one of their reasons for the electrics. Choking on smoke in tunnels with old oil burning steamers. So, just mount pantographs on the cab roof, and..... mg: Boxcab E50
Actually the idea of becoming a Milw fan after the company no longer existed is interesting. For the longest time was a BN fan, probably due to living in Moses Lake when I was young. I used to see those bright BN trains running behind the motel my parents owned not knowing they were once milw tracks. I was born in 82 so all I ever saw was the big green and black. Got into n scale when I was around the age of 13. However, it was difficult. Back then there were not so many hobby shops that carried n scale and the only one that did, the owners really didn't like kids. So my shopping experience sucked! Naturally I bought a bunch of BN stuff; coincidentally my favorite color is green! Then I turned 16 got a car and model trains were put into storage. But when I turned 18 I began driving to eastern Wa, for concerts at the gorge. Of course I began recognizing the Renslow Trestle from the times my dad and I drove to eastern wa, to take care of the motel after we moved. From there on out I began digging for info on the railroad that once ran over this bridge. In doing so I really began to like the scenery out there. I began imagining trains making their way through the huge cuts and fills...the only sound in the area was wind and the deep rumble of sd40-2s. Then came the model trains again. A little late in the game I had to buy duces second hand. But I believe all of us choose to model or favor a railroad not necessarily by their color scheme or history but also by an area where the ROW laid. I am still a BN guy and like the older BN stuff, but recently I find myself into the Milw. The idea that a railroad plagued by misfortunate decisions lead to its downfall goes well with the desolate area I love and model. I once read somewhere that the milw was an exception, a child that was "born dead" but didn't stop breathing until later. sorry just found it interesting how we all choose to model certain things over others.
We've often read this, or similar themes. The fortunate thing- Data is easily at hand to refute what is merely an ugly fable. Mostly perpetuated by poor quality writers. Who are negligent in doing any research. And being merely lazy, fall back upon simply repeating rumors impossible to ever substantiate. (Replagiarization?) Now, as you are a student, what we need, is for to switch your declared major. Into physics. Or the best branch of science, for developing the first successful time machine. Then we'll all go back. And enjoy better times! Simpler days of honest, clean living. When hard work was hard. But also rewarding. When do we leave? Boxcab E50
So I have finially finished laying my first coat of dirt on the entire 13 feet of just part of a future layout. Boy it takes a long time to spread this stuff. Next: Well I am going to put some lighter colored dirt down in small areas to give the landscaping some variation. After that comes the grass and sagebrush…lots of sagebrush! Then I need to paint the sides of this thing a solid color.
:thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boxcab E50
Excellent job, Greg! There's not a layout yet to connect to all that great scenery? I swear, you guys are tryin' to convert me to model MILW... Must...... resist..... cannot... afford.... to.... buy... Little.... Joes........ I am tempted, however, to build a module or someting depicting Belt Creek, with its 4 tunnels and 2 steel trestles... Even so, in N scale, a compressed model would use a ton of room. Modeling Pipestone Pass, or any of the RMD electrification is tasty as well. The mroe I explore, and read, the more I would have loved to see MILW in its heyday. It does make me want to build an Oly Hi for my passenger train fleet.....
