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Milwaukee Road Stuff
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Anonymous
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April 2003
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Milwaukee Road Stuff
Posted by
Anonymous
on Friday, April 29, 2005 1:43 PM
I'm looking for Milwaukee Road stuff... Looking for older Athearn engine kits and Roundhouse and Athearn rolling stock kits.
Anyone know of a place that has a good selection on this stuff, or Milwaukee Road stuff in general? It seems Milwaukee Road is getting harder to find these days...
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jrbernier
Member since
January 2001
From: SE Minnesota
6,845 posts
Posted by
jrbernier
on Friday, April 29, 2005 2:27 PM
Try eBay for out of production stuff. Athearn/MDC is re-running the 'rib-side' box cars in the next month, and Athearn's RTR line has had several Milw cars over the past year or so. Also check out Accurail/Atlas/Branchline/Red Caboose/Intermountain as they all have Milw freight cars in either RTR or kit form. P2K/Atlas have had HO engines in the past 2 years as well for Milw Road. The Only sore point is the lack of good Milw bay window caboose's.
Jim Bernier
Modeling
BNSF
and
Milwaukee Road
in SW Wisconsin
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dknelson
Member since
March 2002
From: Milwaukee WI (Fox Point)
11,428 posts
Posted by
dknelson
on Friday, April 29, 2005 2:34 PM
If your local hobby shop gets the Milwaukee Road Historical Society's magazine, check the classifieds
Dave Nelson
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Friday, April 29, 2005 10:54 PM
Pete
Kato makes Milwaukee Road covered hoppers. They look pretty nice so I bought two. However, I don't like the couplers because the cars uncoupled frequently so I exchanged them for microtrain cars.
larry
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Anonymous
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April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:57 AM
hi,
try this shop: http://www.whistle-stop.com/
i've been there recently and i saw plenty of milwaukee locos on display.
i think the owner told me he's got a friend who has a little joe-brass of course-with the re-modeled nose to sell.the price was byond my reach but you maybe interested.(that was in 2003).
regards,
nick
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:16 AM
my mistake:
WHISTLE STOP TRAINS
11724 SE DIVISION ST
PORTLAND, OR
Ph: 503-761-1822
http://www.wsor.com/home.html
sorry for confusion,
regards,
nick
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Todd McWilliam
Member since
December 2003
From: Dallas Texas
262 posts
Posted by
Todd McWilliam
on Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:30 AM
Great hobby adventures in West Des Moines, IA has a Athearn BB GP38-2 for sale for 41.00, just saw it yesterday.
Chicago & North Western Railway/Iowa Northern
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Thursday, May 5, 2005 4:26 AM
I don't know where you can find MILW items, but the suggestion to find a copy of THE MILWAUKEE RAILROADER is a good one! Of course, if you LOVE the MILW, I suggest you should become a member of the Milwaukee Road Historical Association. Check MR's annual listing of historical societies (February issue?).
I can't recommend this highly enough! Anyone modeling a prototype road--or even doing what Tony Koester calls "Prototype Freelancing (modeling a real road, but picking and choosing the elemenys you favor, along with your own road name)" should join the historical society of that road. I'm Prototype Freelancing the MILW's Mineral Point branch, and I belong to THREE societies: MILW, C&NW, and Burlington Route--wish I could afford to belong to several more roads that serve that area of WI...
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