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The Milwaukee Road was another of those roads like the Rock Island that had too much competition wherever it went. It had the Q to Omaha, Santa Fe to Kansas City, and the CNW and Q to Minneapolis. One could make a case that it shouldn't have gone west of the Twin Cities; indeed, one could almost make a case that it shouldn't have gone west of Milwaukee - or maybe that it shouldn't have gone anywhere. But that would have left us bereft of things like the Hiawatha passenger trains, "reduce to 100 MPH over the EJ&E crossing at Rondout", Little Joes, the Puget Sound line, horizontal ribs on boxcars, cabooses, passenger cars, and some of those tenders, "Fast Fifteen" and all the great lore surrounding the Milwaukee Road. And it would have left me without about fourteen years of employment . . . We're all better off for its having been here - fans, ex-employees, etc., but I wonder if it really made any difference in the grand scheme of things . . . Old Timer
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