We fans of the Milw, usually all have a neat souvenir or two stashed away. What have you? Here is one of my favorites. Beautiful penmanship! Copied at East Portal, Montana on August 15, 1911: Boxcab E50
Another one. This is from Rhame, North Dakota. Copied on November 10, 1912. Just a few weeks before CM&PS was absorbed into the CM&St.P Railway. Boxcab E50
Another one. This time, a 1912 annual employees pass. A combination version, with CM&PS Railway, and two subsidiaries which were later absorbed into the CM&St.PRY. Tacoma Eastern Railroad, and the Idaho & Western Railway. Boxcab E50
Nice! I love reading old flimsies. I have a couple insulators from when I walked up by Garcia on Snoqualmie Pass on the old rail line. There was a couple of fallen over trolley poles that had them on it still. And they have actual pieces of the copper line wrapped around them! I also found a railway lantern while checking out the Maytown, Wa. depot. It looked like it was run over with a bulldozer on the bottom of it from when it was torn down.
Great stuff Ken, I also have some insulators from the Milwaukee line trough Camp Douglas, Wis. I found them buried in the ground next to my feed mill when they tore out the spur track. Some are clear and some are green. I also have a tool for inching boxcars after they have been dropped off, so you can get them closer to the door opening on the building. It's basicly a hickory handle, about 3" diam. and 6' long. On the end is a cast metal foot with a little spur on it. You shove it under the boxcar wheel and push up on the handle and it moves the car. I tried it! it really works without all that much force. It is branded on the handle with CMSt.P&P
Kurt- So they've knocked down the building at Maytown? That actually was not a depot while at Maytown. Just a section shed. In the past, it was the second depot at Snoqualmie Falls. When that agency closed, was loaded on a flat car, and brought down for use by the section crew. Am trying to think of where it came from, pre- SF days. I know someone who was agent there. Maybe I can ask him. BTW- I have train orders from both SF and Maytown! Boxcab E50
That's a genuine car mover. Did you ever get to actually use it? When I first used one at PACCAR, was surprised by how much leverage it really gave. Neat souvenir, that few people today even can figure out! Boxcab E50
Down at Maytown, it was just a speeder shack still standing, and a pile of old wood and stuff where I found the lantern. The insulators I have are BIG and brownish like ceramic and the copper wire on it is about 1/4" diameter. Hey Andy, cool find!!
The Co-op where I work had a coal two story coal shed on the property which at one time belonged to the Milwaukee Road. It was built into the side of a hill so one story was below street level.The cars would come in and dump the coal and there was a hand or man operated elevator inside that brought the coal up to street level. There the coal was bagged and sold to customers in 100# bags. The Co-op didn't want the building anymore, it was starting to fall down, they couldn't find anyone to wreck it and they couldn't burn it in town so I told them I would do it if I could keep the building and whatever I found in it. Long story short, It took me three months to dismantle it and haul it home, the car mover was inside!
Hello List: Would anyone know of a source where a Milwaukee Road station sign train can be found? It can be a replica as well. It is the kind that were mounted on the sides of a depot. Thank You, Mike
Hello List: I am looking for Milwaukee memorabilia, such as stationary, pens, pencils, forms. Thank You, Mike
Oh, and for those of you who live here in the Northwest, go to Fred Meyer's stores. They are selling Milwaukee Road Hiawatha prints framed ready to hang! 2 different sizes, big and huge wall sizes!
Hey Mike, WELCOME!! Kurt is right, go to e-bay, type in Milwaukee Road in the search box and stand back. There is a huge selection of just about everything.
