Milwaukee Road EP-2 Bipolar at Seattle Union station

CMStP&P train, engine number 4, engine type 4-4-2 Passenger; 7 cars. Photographed: south of Deerfield, Ill., June 21, 1946.

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A couple viewing the new Milwaukee Road Skytop lounge car. Minneapolis Minnesota. May, 1948.

Getting around Town...One Way or Another

This photo from the 1940s highlights so many of the transportation options in mid-twentieth century Minneapolis -- and also some of the challenges they posed. Streetcars (visible in the foreground) were still at the center of the Twin Cities transit system as they had been for nearly 50 years. The streetcars' days were numbered, however. Buses (like the ones just next to the streetcar) ran concurrently with the streetcars and would completely replace them by 1954. Buses made more sense on streets increasingly dominated by cars (like the ones in front of the buses in the photo). With the growth of suburbs and the promise of "gas for less," cars became more and more popular. Not to be forgotten, trains (like the Milwaukee Road cars at the back of this photo) remained an important means of moving people and goods in and out of town.

When all these modes of transit came together at one intersection, it could be a problem. The intersection in this photo, Franklin Ave. and Cedar Ave., was completely rebuilt not long after this photo was taken in a massive Franklin-Cedar Grade Separation Project.

1943 America's Roads to Victory are boulevards of steel and stamina. The Milwaukee Road

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Short model railroad update: I got the locomotives for the Olympian Hiawatha! An FP7A, F7B and another FP7A of the Milwaukee railroad

Going ABA instead of just two units does look nicer, doesn't it? I've fitted them all with DCC, using a PD10MU decoder, a basic thing for soldering in.

I've tried the Digitrax plug-and-play decoders before for other F units, and I've always been less than impressed. They're relatively expensive (two Digitrax ones would have cost more than the three I picked), not really that much less work, and I always felt like they're not super great with dirty rails. Of course in an ideal world Kato would just put a standard decoder plug in these things, but I'm not holding my breath. Instead I'm holding my soldering iron.

As for speed matching, that has not been a problem, since all three have the same decoder. And the long passenger train with the long train of locomotives in front looks really nice. The passenger train also has lights in now, but no pictures because, well, I couldn't be bothered. Maybe I'll make another post explaining the reason why I couldn't be bothered. It's to do with yet another train.

Here’s yet another new profile of mine, where I’m wearing an orange’’red cap with the Milwaukee Road logo on it and a shirt that’s half light green and half dark green on the top half with the Northern Pacific logo on it, and the shirt’s bottom half is half empire builder orange and half empire builder brown. This setup is a reference to the fact that Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha streamliner competed against Northern Pacific’s North Coast Limited streamliner and Great Northern’s Empire Builder streamliner over the routes between Chicago and the northwest.

The SOO Line Copper Country Limited -- Roger Puta Photos por Marty Bernard Por Flickr: SOO Line Train 2, The Copper Country Limited, waiting for departure at Calumet, MI on January 7, 1967. The Copper Country Limited was for the most part a Milwaukee Road train, handled north of Champion, MI by the SOO Line. As you can see it was all Milwaukee Road equipment.

"Metra's Milwaukee Road heritage unit leads the Pullman special North through Chicago, IL."

May 15, 2022

Photo by Robby Gragg

Crew Change,

Marmarth, North Dakota

1974

CMStP&P locomotive, engine number 5801, engine type Whitcomb 90- Ton Photographed: Chicago, Ill., September 26, 1935.

Illinois Central 4003 (E6A) is on Train #21, the Governor's Special, at Springfield, Illinois on June 26, 1967. Photographed by R.R. Wallin.

how many pantographs u got, r u in that 4 pantograph config? the 2? the 1?

Pantographs? Like on an Electric Train? Well Electric Locomotives usually have two, but Multiple Units generally have one or two per power car but if course you usually only use half of your total number of pantographs and how many you have in total is dependent on the formation of your train

Milwaukee Road's Chippewa Hiawatha service. In this scene, Everett Street Station in Milwaukee, circa 1950.