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Milwaukee Road Montage - 4

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Posted by Overmod on Monday, March 21, 2022 8:44 PM

Algorithm served me this, which I think will be interesting to many.  It starts a bit slow, and you may want to skip past the Zoom instructions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfrIQSs9gMk

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Monday, March 21, 2022 3:48 PM

Kind of hard to watch. Sad to see the deterioration of a once proud line. Neat to see a Turboliner in the one @4:60

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Posted by IA and eastern on Monday, March 21, 2022 1:06 PM

What is the song in the first one? Gary

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Milwaukee Road Montage - 4
Posted by CMStPnP on Monday, March 21, 2022 7:27 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SmuFnGf0Vk

 Includes photos of the disasterous winter of 1977 that pushed the railroad over the brink you can see from some of the photos how bad it was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6sixJJRdy4

 

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