Milwaukee Road Flashback

[CMStPnP]

Time for another Milwaukee Road flashback..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7uQ1NFUxFk

 

[Gramp]

Sad to think I rode the City of Denver to Denver and back from Davis Junction when I was a kid on that very track at 90mph. The crossbucks along the route warned as such. Too bad it came to this. At least there wasn’t the further insult of graffiti at this point. 

[Erik_Mag]

I'm guessing that the movies were taken around the time that I rode the Olympian Hiawatha from Seattle to Miles City in summer 1957. Don't remember much as I was 33 months old at the time, but one memory may have been related to the electric locomotive was either being coupled or uncoupled. The train was stopped and my dad said something about wires.

[charlie hebdo]

Gramp

Sad to think I rode the City of Denver to Denver and back from Davis Junction when I was a kid on that very track at 90mph. The crossbucks along the route warned as such. Too bad it came to this. At least there wasn’t the further insult of graffiti at this point. 

 

Are you saying the City trains stopped at  Davis Junction? Those were great trains.  I remember when that fleet still was on the NorthWestern about 1954.

[greyhounds]

charlie hebdo

Are you saying the City trains stopped at Davis Junction? Those were great trains. I remember when that fleet still was on the NorthWestern about 1954.

My 1956 Official Guide shows the City of Denver making a regular stop at Davis Junction westbound and a conditional stop eastbound.  Davis Junction was, after all, a stop for Rockford, IL.

[charlie hebdo]

I should have known better.

[Gramp]

There was always a tension because making a stop at DJ added 15 minutes to the schedules. The Rockford city fathers stuck to their guns. 

Also, had a friend whose daughter went to college at the Univ. of Wyoming. He loved it that she could get on a City at DJ and get off at Laramie. Simple and safe.