MILWAUKEE ROAD COAST DIVISION 1976 - 1978

[@gregoryhainsworth2663]

I miss the Milwaukee Road

[@kyleecarlson9912]

Thank you John Crosby for shooting this film!

[@harborhawk1]

As an insulator collector, these old videos amaze me with all the openwire communication lines following the tracks. Rail communication, telephone & telegraph, and the first electric transmission lines to many communities. The trains are cool too. Too bad I was born to late to get a chance to ride on the "road". I'm envious of the old timers, especially any telephone guys that got to climb those poles.

[@1rockinsounder]

Thank you John for preserving a piece of railroad history! Long live the Milwaukee Road!

[@raymondscottbehnoud8986]

Thank you so much the memories

[@buckyc.9069]

This looks so much like ops. On the Rock around here at about the same time. Cline Yard, (Wichita) at about same time. The eventual outcome was about the same, but it was a helluva show while it lasted. Those Rock switchers workin between Yl 239, and Yl 251, when the ds would let em were never to be forgotten.

[@steiger256]

I got this on dvd from John Crosby back in early 2000. Saw it on the web, sent him A check, And he sent A copy. Nice that Green Frog is promoting And selling this. There are A lot or really nice pictures on this. A lot of them were taken from the locomotives cab in remote locations. Lots of derailment pictures, ect.

[@treeclimberdave]

I see Port Angeles! Not long before SNC took over. I remember it well!

[@CSX4545]

Great video

[@chuxtuff]

I can remember the Milwaukee Road train running right on the beach between Moclips line at Pacific beach in the early 1960's as a kid when I used to stay down there with my Grandma in the summers. We were clam digging right there at Pacific beach and though it was a mighty rare sight even in those days, I did indeed see that train running on that line. Perhaps you've seen the John Wayne movie McQue? Where he was a Seattle detective that got in a great car chase??? Unless you lived around here and knew what Hollywood trickery everyone who wasn't just seen...what didn't happen. I'll explain. The car chase, though not of the Steve McQueen Bullet quality, was good going through the streets of Seattle and all over the place, shooting at each other and driving like maniacs. It must not have been too cool because I can't remember what cars were involved either. The Hollywood trickery involves the moment where the chase scene is in Seattle but it actually ends about 100 miles to the west in the same exact place I saw that train along the coast in the early 1960's and when the movie was made. How do I know that?? There's a scene where during the chase they go down a hill and wind up on the beach by driving under those exact railroad tracks. So it looked like that was right near downtown Seattle a few minutes..."you know down there a couple miles to the west" away. When in actuality that would have been a race worthy of NASCAR sanctioning and just about as long. Hey, check it out as it's still a good movie - and now YOU know. Oh ya that train I saw?? It was a MOW crew with an old GP loco with a couple of gondolas, a flat car and a small crane car and the caboose. My Grandma said she knew one of those guys and that was like a "make work job" as they were older guys close to retirement and there probably wasn't much to do. They came from Aberdeen-Hoquiam and on the way to the beach the tracks were actually right along the highway out of Hoquiam some serving the shake mills that were all over that area in those days as well as any MOW duties that...cropped up. Grandma lived near Copalis Crossing where there was an Evans Forest Products mill right up the road that was served by the train daily and though I can remember boxcars undoubtedly filled with forest products and loads of aromatic as in good smelling cedar shakes & shingles stacked tightly and though not as many of those shake & shingle loads I don't recall the long loads of logs at least right there either. Although there were hundreds of logging trucks (probably an exaggeration but not by much especially to a 10 year old truck crazed kid) that used to pass right there every day too with names like F.G. Petersen and Mayr Bros Logging on their doors hauling what would be considered endangered species these days - old growth logs freshly harvested from the rain forests of the Washington coast. So that's why the trains had and hauled what they did and that's what killed the railroads in that area anyway as well. No business as the last old growth log was cut and harvested down there in the mid 1980's or so. And right after that they yanked up all the ties & rail too when those lines were abandoned. Oh there's still trains to Aberdeen and Hoquiam industrial areas. But that's as far west as they go...

[@downallyourstreets]

bn had finally done the milwaukee in by this time...dead trains rolling:-(

[@JoyceLund]

1:41 Seattle and north coast?

[@kyleholbrook1288]

Did Cameras Exist In 1970’s?

[@princeofpeace-douglasville6804]

You might say "Barely"

[@dominator9833]

No they weren't invented until 2004

[@semmel7528]

What if I told you cameras existed during the American civil war...

[@harborhawk1]

The shot of the Tacoma Junction was cool to see. Now it's UPRR's tracks, the power lines are there but abandoned in place, intersecting another dead line going to an abandoned sub. Always wondered why at the base of each pole it has the letters TJ. Power for this section was genterated a few miles away at Puget Power's White River Hydro plant. things have sure changed. The hydro plant is shut down because it hurts the salmon. Puget Power is now PSE, and the Milwaukee road is the Union Pacfic.

[@farmrrick]

Milwaukee Road is now Canadian Pacific ex.Soo Line.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@farmrrick The former Milwaukee Road in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri are now Canadian Pacific/Soo Line.

[@freighttrainsahpassing9790]

@:42 that's unfortunate !!!

[@oldclip70]

This is John Crosby film and photos. Give the man his due credit!!!! Shame on you Green Frog Videos!!!

[@GreenFrogVideos]

We absolutely do give John Crosby credit here in the description, and also on our website for this product. We also give credit on the advertising photo of this product on our website! Green Frog Prod.

[@oldclip70]

Yes, on your website. However, I am writing about this video on youtube. Not once you mention Mr. Crosby on 3:03 video clip.

[@fmnut]

+Christopher Clipper. That's why you should READ the description before watching the video! Saves you from making uninformed comments like above.

[@oldclip70]

fmnut, they didn't state that it was John's until I spoke up!! Since you said something, I must say this....ASK before writing!!!!

[@fmnut]

+Christopher Clipper. Have a nice day!!!

[@floridianrailauto9032]

Anyone know the song name?

[@JohnR.1968]

Purple rain?

[@JohnR.1968]

Purple rain?

[@williamhancock6489]

Sounds like the end of SNL