I can remember the Grand Trunk Western was going to buy the Milwaukee Road in the early 1980's before they ruled in favor of the Soo Line. The GTW merger was so close to happening that i can remember the GT and the Milwaukee Road sharing power. I would see there locomotives at the GTW's Elsdon Yard engine terminal quite often when I was a teenager.
@CVisionProductions13 жыл бұрын
Great memory! Thank you for sharing!
@tracetate28323 жыл бұрын
Instablaster
@erbewayne68682 жыл бұрын
The phone systems were connected for a while.
@genedahlstrom4438 жыл бұрын
If I remember right the coal cars had lids on them to keep the coal from blowing away. It was a low grade coal from North Dakota going to a power plant in eastern South Dakota. The covers would open and close using the attachments on the lids, so they could load and unload.
@oldcodyjr3 жыл бұрын
I haven’t heard the word “wig-wag” since I was a little girl and that would have been late 1940s-early 1950s. I thought that was a word I or my mom made up to describe those signals!
@CVisionProductions13 жыл бұрын
That's funny! Yes, it is a very unique name for a very unique signal.
@scoobycarr55584 жыл бұрын
If I may recall correctly, the Rapid City Line once traveled east to Chicago via Mitchell, Mason City and Madison and was the routing of the Milwaukee Road's overnight *Sioux* passenger train between these points until 1960. The *Varsity* traveled on the eastern segment in Wisconsin and Illinois and was popular with college students in those states. But the former MILW's Rapid City Line is now but a shell of its former self, operated by Dakota Southern in the South Dakota segment, Canadian Pacific in the Sheldon-Marquette segment in Iowa and Wisconsin & Southern in the Wisconsin and Illinois segment. Metra has the Milwaukee District north line between Chicago and Fox Lake.
@CVisionProductions13 жыл бұрын
That is correct.
12 жыл бұрын
@igmuska if you are talking about the the things sticking up, those were how the machinery at the power plant lifted the cars to dump the coal. today rotary couplers are commonly used
@jalilmuhammad8270 Жыл бұрын
The Milwaukee Road would sell its soul to the Soo Line Railroad in 1986.
@dasmikey196415 жыл бұрын
This railroad ran thru Danville, IL, but I never got to see it in action. I wonder what kind of horns they used...
@jakewagner49479 жыл бұрын
There's still is a old Milwaukee road switcher here at pigs eye yard at Paul mn
@64843739 жыл бұрын
Jake Wagner yeah, there are two of them, I see them sometimes when I am there.
@kayakchrispy9 ай бұрын
The peanut line from Hastings to Stillwater.. 😊
@CVisionProductions19 ай бұрын
That’s an interesting name! Do you happen to know how the line got that nickname?
@kayakchrispy9 ай бұрын
@@CVisionProductions1 The nickname “the Peanut Line” is said to have come from an old engineer who had the habit of wrapping peanuts and candy in newspaper and tossing the bundles to waiting children as the train passed by.
@CVisionProductions19 ай бұрын
Ahhh, interesting… Thank you for the information!
@seanycarr32265 жыл бұрын
If memory serves me right, had the Milwaukee Road not goofed up in choosing a route to the Pacific, they should have chosen a route to Eureka in California instead of Tacoma and Seattle where the Northern Pacific and Great Northern already had routes of their own. Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco had their own Pacific Coast ports, but not Eureka. That other route to the Pacific at Eureka undoubtedly would have been the line across the southern tier of South Dakota to Rapid City. The route across the northern tier of South Dakota might have been an ideal route for coal traffic for the Milwaukee Road in eastern Montana as it was in the early 1980s after the bankruptcy.
@SD45750016 жыл бұрын
Great Video! Are you C vision productions then?
@CVisionProductions14 жыл бұрын
Yes, I am! ;-)
@CommanderFoxhound4 ай бұрын
T H E M I L W A K E E R O A D
@HOTRAILProductions14 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what year the scenes on the Rapid City, SD line were shot?
@CVisionProductions13 жыл бұрын
1978
@kathystein55814 жыл бұрын
Too bad the Mliwaukee Road went under. Two sets of rails between Chicago & Milwaukeee , they claimed they could not make money? I personally meet WJ Oquinn, he was A real arrogant jerk!!
@scoobycarr55583 жыл бұрын
Plus Quinn had very little knowledge of running a railroad much less the Milwaukee Road - he was previously a lawyer and aN agent for the FBI.
@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb3 жыл бұрын
I guess the debt was double counted to
@geraldgaffey928 Жыл бұрын
I have a letter, with His signature on it.
@MilesL.auto-train4013 Жыл бұрын
So that's the origin of the meme...
@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын
Yep! It was our narrator, Don Grant. His voice has become very popular.
@MilesL.auto-train4013 Жыл бұрын
@@CVisionProductions1 huh. How odd. I guess this goes without saying, this is a certified *The Milwaukee Ro* moment
@dd198512 жыл бұрын
What kind of cars are being pulled at 2:05?
@scoobycarr55587 жыл бұрын
These are specialized coal hoppers just before aluminum hoppers came out which featured lids that closed whenever the cars were loaded so that coal dust was not becoming a problem. Nowadays with rapid discharging hoppers in the present day on both BNSF and Union Pacific along with Eastern roads CSX and Norfolk Southern have a feature that cuts down on the emission of coal dust, and coalmines loading their coal in a unique "loaf of bread" type formation cuts down on coal dust considerably.
@scottmichaux748711 жыл бұрын
Hi
@thetrainshop14 жыл бұрын
@dasmikey1964 S3L's/RS3Ls.
@414RadioTech3 жыл бұрын
What the hell happened to the music it just suddenly died that sucks
@CVisionProductions13 жыл бұрын
YT had an issue with the music we used even though we purchased the license to use it. So it was removed. Sorry about that.
@414RadioTech3 жыл бұрын
@@CVisionProductions1 KZbin can't do that because as long as you provide them proof of anything music wise with licensing then KZbin has no saying‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
@speng726 жыл бұрын
The Milwaukee designed the coal cars and thall built the cars.
@williamwargo30664 жыл бұрын
What gives with the sound ? ? ? ? ? ?
@CVisionProductions14 жыл бұрын
Even though we obtained the license usage for the music that we use in the productions, KZbin still decided to flag it as a copyright