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Milwaukee Road 1928-1985, The By Jim Scribbins w dust jacket
Milwaukee Road 1928-1985 By Jim Scribbins
Hardbound With Dustjacket
312 Pages
Copyright 2001
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
St. Paul's Early Years
Chapter i And Pacific
Chapter 2 The Depression
Chapter 3 The War Years
Chapter 4 Immediate Postwar Years
Chapter 5The Fifties
Chapter 6 The Sixties
Chapter 7 Early Seventies
Chapter 8 1977 Reorganization
Chapter 9 Locomotives
Chapter io Passenger Trains
Color Section
Appendix
Named Passenger Trains, 1928-1971
Discontinuances of Unnamed Passenger Trains
New Lines Constructed by CMStP&P
Abandonments
Lines Sold
Routes Acquired by CP/Soo Line
Lines Sold by Chicago-Milwaukee Corp.
Bibliography
Photo Contributors
Index
Introduction
The Milwaukee Road, whose full, formal name was the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, was a unique, individualistic railroad with a strong personality of the type usually associated with the likes of a Pennsylvania Railroad or a Santa Fe.
The Milwaukee Road was many things: a granger line, a busy high-speed carrier and a transcontinental. Until 1970, it was one of only two railroads extending the entire distance between Chicago and the Pacific Coast. That Puget Sound Extension from the upper Midwest between two well-established rivals was, for most of its existence, contentious, but with considerable electrified mileage and five mountain ranges to cross, it drew attention to the railroad. Its General Electric box-cab motors proved to the world that electric operation of heavy tonnage, long-distance freight trains across rugged terrain was indeed possible. Later on, for a while, it scheduled the fastest freight train between Chicago and Seattle, albeit essentially diesel-powered.
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