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Good stories. As a Milwaukee Road employee for over 12 years I appreciate the comments. I worked in the Engineering Department for 10 years, first at the division offices in Savanna, ILlinois and Aberdeen, South Dakota and then in the corporate headquarters in Chicago. Later I was in the real estate department until the end. One correction Mark. The Milwauke Road line from Chicago to Omaha did not go through the quad cities. That was the Rock Island now Iowa Interstate. The Milwaukee Road main line missed the big cities and crossed the Mississippi river at Savanna between Clinton and Dubuque. Because the Milwaukee west coast line paralleled the NP for long distances across Montana, I had thought it would have been better to combine the NP with the Milwaukee instead of the GN. By eliminating the duplication, both the NP/Milwaukee combination and the GN might have made it as separate railroads. Because of the common ownership of the GN and NP that was probably not practical. The BN did acquire and I believe it still operates the Milwaukee line between Minneapolis and Terry, Montana. Except within the cities, most of the track west of Terry was eliminated. I was at the closing of the sale of the eastern remainder of the Milwaukee lines to the Soo Line in 1985. We got court approval late in the afternoon and about 40 or 50 of us from both companies met and worked into the night. We delivered the deeds to the Soo Line just about midnight. Larry
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