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THIS IS ONE CHAPTER of an available DVD on the Milwaukee Road power. visit www.cspmovies.com

See the Milwaukee Road’s “electrification” on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the “Quills”, Bipolars, GE Boxcabs and GE “Joes”. Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Road’s diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Road’s steam powered trains.

This is Milwaukee Road’s passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section on snow fighting, MOW equipment and practices as well as the frequent wrecks that kept the MOW people far too busy in the unfortunate years of decline. But overall, the Milwaukee Road’s employees always came through in the best tradition of tough and dedicated mountain railroaders.

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20 Comments

@charlessmileyvideos Creator 2 years ago (edited) Pinned

This is one never before seen chapter from our movie "Milwaukee Road Scrapbook" available at www.cspmovies.com

@anb7408 2 years ago

The plight of the Milwaukee and the PCE to Seattle was a prime example of how NOT to manage a railroad. They inherited a huge amount of traffic as concessions for the BN merger (up to two extra trains each way per day), and they pissed it away with deferred maintenance, and spending the profits elsewhere. Makes me sick every time I’m out west, and see the dirt path that was once the Milwaukee mainline.

@HanKim-b7g 2 years ago

I am part of the Milwaukee family, from the Rocky Mountain and Coast Divisions. My Grandfather, Father, Mother, Brother, Myself, Niece and her husband all worked the Milwaukee. I don't usually get chocked up but!

@diesel71 2 years ago

It seems we were further ahead environmentally 75 years ago with the electrics than today.

@Jeff-uj8xi 2 years ago

I got to see the catenary before it was cut down, but sadly I missed the electric operation. It had ceased not long before I was out there. I put the abandonment of the Milwaukee Road electrification right up there with the tearing down of Penn Station in New York City. Both tragic acts of vandalism.

@AndreiTupolev 2 years ago

What it could have been if the entire route had been electrified on 25 kv AC when the DC system was worn out. It really could have been an example to the world

@durandjohnson1321 2 years ago (edited)

I remember the power sub-station in Tacoma had a neon sign,.. "Milwaukee Road".. that would light up at night, wish I had of gotten a photo of it!

@MontanaDirtRoads 2 years ago

I drove and filmed the rout from taft to avery this last summer,i was born the year they died off so never got to see this in action but love the history of this railroad.

@wdd6864 2 years ago

Another great DVD. I watched it multiple times.

@jslasher1 2 years ago

Part of me died the day that the ICC approved the request by the Milwaukee Road that their "Olympian Hiawatha" be discontinued from Seattle/Tacoma to Minneapolis/St. Paul. The trade-off, was that their train [ by then, unnamed] would operate from Deer Lodge, the division point, to MSP with a diner, touraluxe sleeper and chair car. If the ICC had employed some common sense [the Seattle World's Fair was but a year away], they would have ordered the Milwaukee Road to operate the service once weekly, with the original equipment, over the entire route.

@FrankZellerhoff 2 years ago

Being a past chief substation operator at cedar falls i didn’t see that there was a operation shortfall. I loved the silent smoke less power. Great job I loved every minute , even the 3400 amp trip outs . Great video F Z

@Duececoupe 2 years ago

😍🥰😎
Yip, I'm a HUGE Milwaukee Road fan boy, deal with it! 😉😆😂
More, moooore, MORE Milwaukee Road please! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Wouldn't mind more GN, NP, D&RGW, SP and WP either, mountain railroading rules! ✊🏻

@VickysStillVeryVeryIcky 9 months ago (edited)

The Boxcabs and Joes truly were masterpieces of form and function. The orange-maroon-&-black tri-tone is an awesome paintjob too. I wish I could've rode in one!

@jeffktown 1 year ago

This is the textbook definition of a railroad-based Shakespearean tragedy

@hartmutlorentzen9659 2 years ago

Excellent video, Thanks for presentation, from Germany

@mikeflynn1629 1 year ago

When I was in the Milwaukee yard they had those F units. That's what we had come for to film

@chrisloomis1489 1 year ago

I remember seeing the Milwaukee Electrics on our first trip " home " to Seattle after moving to Lower Michigan , and the substations were still there. Later when our family moved to Wyoming , I drove oil field and mining or tanker loads. I was shocked to see the whole of the sub stations , gone evaporated and many in Montana felt left in a lurch losing their local railroad , the same in Idaho . Only the Great Northern remained with the green and white simplified paint scheme , somehow until the BNSF era the trains just seemed to have lost their souls. Many of the high bridges in the mountains East of Seattle still stand. You can see them from the freeway and that is how you KNOW your in the Great Cascade Mountains. ❤

@Ciana214 2 years ago

The right of way for the Milwaukee Road passes right through the campus of Central Washington University which I may transfer to this autumn. Not too far away, there's a bridge that still has the catenary poles in place. I'm definitely going to go check that bridge out if i end up attending CWU.