Zachs Trip To Milwaukee

[kschmidt]

Zach,

Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip to Milwaukee. The Cards ended up sweeping the Brewers, Oh well. Come back again sometime soon, will have to try and meet for some railfanning.

Keith

[daveklepper]

Thanks for the report and pix Great

[UPTRAIN]

That's why I've taken about 4,000 in the past year or so, lol.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by railfan619

those are some really neat pictures you got there.[^][^]

Keith those are good photos. Thanks so very much for taking them.

We as railfans have passed up taking photos that in the future we will look back and say, "I wish I would have taken a shot of that." [:(] [V] So do it now while you can. Many of us have few photos of some of our favorite railroads because, "the railroad has always been here." Then next year it is merged into a larger railroad and is gone. We had an opportunity once to take that shot and didn't. Now the new railroad tears down that old depot, or removes those unique semaphore, or removes a siding that once mightly passenger trains used, and now we have no photo and no way to show what once was. [:(] [V] [:(!] So take them photos now, while you can.

[UPTRAIN]

Oh yeah Pat Scott (the guy that took the photo) isn't much of an Amtrak fan, but he took the pic anyway, lol.

[UPTRAIN]

T'was a great trip, I hated to end it, got to see some neat stuff. My train was photographed in STL as we left : http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=167869 . I wasn't sure if I'd get between 2 P42DC's or if we would have a NPCU "Cabbage". Well, we had a cabbage both trips, both in phase III. Going up at the rear end of the train was 90200, the first F40. Coming back it was 90368. Northbound eagle was led by 204, the third to last Genesis....ever. Coming back was 188. I can't remember the Hiawatha Genesis units' numbers, I got pix of them though. The ballgame was great, sat in the 6th row, 7 seats from the asile behind home plate, the tickets cost 35 bucks. We met 7 guys in the row in front of us from BNSF, some from Houston, Springfield, MO, and Chicago. That was a party. Oh yeah, the Cardinals won 8-4, so yeah, it was a fun trip.



Oh yeah...300+ photos. (not all are keepers)

[Anonymous]

A little birdy just told me that

Zach is back [:D] [:D] [:D]

Now did I beat him to the post. [;)] [8D]

[kschmidt]

Thanks for the nice comments about the pictures. Of course had I only known I would have taken alot more. Going to be a warm night for a baseball game tonight at Miller Park. Its about 88 degrees, but not real humid.

Keith

[railfan619]

those are some really neat pictures you got there.[^][^]

[Noah Hofrichter]

Keith, those are awesome! Man, I'll definately look at that lot a bit different next time I go to a Brewer game. Thanks a lot!

Noah

[kschmidt]

Yes Noah,

They are they only part of the huge Milwaukee Road Shops still standing. There is talk of trying to keep them as some kind of memorial. Also the Henry Aaron Trial is being built down in the valley area.

I added some photos of what things used to look like before Miller Park.



This photo is looking west from 35th Street viaduct, as you notice No Miller Park. Just Milwaukee Road backshop buildings. This is a scan of print from a picture I took probably in 1982.



Here is close-up of the turntable still in use. At one time I believe this was a 360 degree roundhouse, also taken in 1982



Amtrak on the turntable. Before the Amtrak Hiawatha ran with cab-cars the locomotive would uncouple and run up to the turntable to be turned before every return trip.



Looking east from 35th Street viaduct. Here Milw Road GE's sit near the enginehouse. All of this is also gone, now just empty gravel lot. The Falk Corporation is the company in the background, their still there.

Noah, hopefully these pictures help show what things where like near Miller Park just 15-20 years ago. I am so glad I took these pictures when I did.

Keith

[Noah Hofrichter]

Keith, so that's what those two stacks are! I never reallized that that was ever a railroad yard before! I can remember when I first started going to Brewer games about 5 or 6 years ago(I was about 8 or 9 so I don't remember it too well) all of the construction equipment running around in that lot, working to grade the land. I can remember that there also were Arches along the tracks to the North of the Parking lot. I wasn't much of a railfan then, so of course I was more interested in the Big Equipment working in the lot next to the parking lot then the trains that went by!

Noah

[kschmidt]

Actually Mr Miller is going to be throwing a big party here in Milwaukee. The Big Brew-Ha is being held on August 20th to celebrate Mr Miller's 150th birthday. Boy he looks pretty good for his age.

The party is Free as long as you have ticket and features Bon Jovi and the Goo Goo Dolls. And it is being held at Miller Park, would have never guessed.

Keith

[eolafan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by spbed

Say hiya to Bud & his daughter for me. Thanks. [:o)][:p][:)]

Originally posted by UPTRAIN
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Actually you won't find Bud in Milwaukee very easily but Mr. Miller is a frequent guest.

Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)

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