Milwaukee Road Stories

[passengerfan]

Remember that south of Boeing field at one time their was a covered wooden bridge that crossed the UP,NP, GN and Milwaukee Road tracks. Of course at this time the Milwaukee was still electrified on the coast division and the bridge caught fire one afternoon and according to the Seattle Fire Department it was sparks from the catenanry that destroyed the last covered bridge over the tracks in the area. Used to stand on the bridge and watch trains pass beneath. It was a great train watching spot. To bad the Milwaukee Electrics burned it down.

[Anonymous]

I saw a Milwaukee Road F7A being pulled by CSX to the Chattanooga Railway Museum several months ago. This just happened to be a day when I left my camera at home. I'm still kicking myself.

[Anonymous]

I saw a Milwaukee Road F7A being pulled by CSX to the Chattanooga Railway Museum several months ago. This just happened to be a day when I left my camera at home. I'm still kicking myself.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

QUOTE: Originally posted by Railroadmilw1963

I can contribute to say .. I worked for the Milwaukee Raod from 1963-1985 ..
I was a Mechanical Carmen Welder ... work in the freight shop.. black smith shop..
it was a great Railroad .. Anyone else work in the Milwaukee Area Shops ..??

Yes, locomotive electricians helper, SOO Milwaukee. Do I know you?
Randy Stahl

Hi there .. didn't know Randy Sathl .the only person I did know was Dennis Ram ..

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

QUOTE: Originally posted by Railroadmilw1963

I can contribute to say .. I worked for the Milwaukee Raod from 1963-1985 ..
I was a Mechanical Carmen Welder ... work in the freight shop.. black smith shop..
it was a great Railroad .. Anyone else work in the Milwaukee Area Shops ..??

Yes, locomotive electricians helper, SOO Milwaukee. Do I know you?
Randy Stahl

Hi there .. didn't know Randy Sathl .the only person I did know was Dennis Ram ..

[Anonymous]

Just recentally I have seen a Soo Line bandit. It was about 3 weeks ago and it was a MP15AC and it was in the CP yard in Bensonville(near Chicago). So the Milwaukee still lives today.

[Anonymous]

Just recentally I have seen a Soo Line bandit. It was about 3 weeks ago and it was a MP15AC and it was in the CP yard in Bensonville(near Chicago). So the Milwaukee still lives today.

[Anonymous]

Here is my stoy, not much, but it's Milwaukee Road:

Every Friday my dad and I drive past Bensonville Yard in Chicago. Working the yard is an MP15 in Milwaukee Road Paint. There is also a GP38 in Milwaukee road. The only change is the word SOO on each of their cabs.

I have photographed the MP15 from a highway overpass while it waas swithching. (The hghwaay overpass is the only way to see the part of the yard it works) But I have not been as lucky w/ the GP38. I will get it someday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Here is my stoy, not much, but it's Milwaukee Road:

Every Friday my dad and I drive past Bensonville Yard in Chicago. Working the yard is an MP15 in Milwaukee Road Paint. There is also a GP38 in Milwaukee road. The only change is the word SOO on each of their cabs.

I have photographed the MP15 from a highway overpass while it waas swithching. (The hghwaay overpass is the only way to see the part of the yard it works) But I have not been as lucky w/ the GP38. I will get it someday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

It was a brief encounter/memory of the Milwaukee that motivated me throughout my public school & college years to pursue a career in railroading. In 1979, my grandfather and I went to a rodeo in Forsyth, Montana. Sitting in the bleachers at the Rosebud County Fairgrounds, you could see the not-long-for-the-world Milwaukee mainline on the north side of the Yellowstone River. I still remember the orange-and-black SD40-2s on the eastbound that rolled past the fairgrounds during the rodeo. My grandparents owned a ranch adjacent to the present-day BNSF Forsyth Sub (in 1979 a bastion of green n' black) and the orange-and-black locos were a new sight for me; I asked my grandfather about them and he told me that we were looking at a train on the 'Milwaukee Road'. I'm pretty sure it was right then and there that I wanted to work for a railroad.

[Anonymous]

It was a brief encounter/memory of the Milwaukee that motivated me throughout my public school & college years to pursue a career in railroading. In 1979, my grandfather and I went to a rodeo in Forsyth, Montana. Sitting in the bleachers at the Rosebud County Fairgrounds, you could see the not-long-for-the-world Milwaukee mainline on the north side of the Yellowstone River. I still remember the orange-and-black SD40-2s on the eastbound that rolled past the fairgrounds during the rodeo. My grandparents owned a ranch adjacent to the present-day BNSF Forsyth Sub (in 1979 a bastion of green n' black) and the orange-and-black locos were a new sight for me; I asked my grandfather about them and he told me that we were looking at a train on the 'Milwaukee Road'. I'm pretty sure it was right then and there that I wanted to work for a railroad.

[stuart olson]

i never worked on the milwaukee in fact ive only seen one bandit in person and never a full livery uninit even in a museum

but i do know an old codger who worked on the milwaukee during the steam era as a brakman he once told me that one time long ago an F7 (steam) broke a wheel somewhere south of st.paul and had to go back to be repaired the engineer who got called was to say the least "hevily dosed with the good stuff" and promptly nodded off after getting out on the line at this point the engin decided to take off and proceded to run hell bent for the north they got to the shops without an icedent and went home. the next day the track formans were fit to kill aparently the broken wheel of the engin had broken a hundred or so sections of rail during the night

whether this is bull or not i dont know

[stuart olson]

i never worked on the milwaukee in fact ive only seen one bandit in person and never a full livery uninit even in a museum

but i do know an old codger who worked on the milwaukee during the steam era as a brakman he once told me that one time long ago an F7 (steam) broke a wheel somewhere south of st.paul and had to go back to be repaired the engineer who got called was to say the least "hevily dosed with the good stuff" and promptly nodded off after getting out on the line at this point the engin decided to take off and proceded to run hell bent for the north they got to the shops without an icedent and went home. the next day the track formans were fit to kill aparently the broken wheel of the engin had broken a hundred or so sections of rail during the night

whether this is bull or not i dont know

[Kevin C. Smith]

A true story doesn't have to be good and a good story doesn't have to be true...

[Kevin C. Smith]

A true story doesn't have to be good and a good story doesn't have to be true...