Milwaukee railroad ghost towns of the past.Lombard & Maudlow.

This trip I took with outbackjack following Montanas rail history known as Milwaukee railroad.
we checked out Maudlow and Lombard walking around these sites showing you guys what things were like back then and explaining how things were So sit back relax and enjoy the show.
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[@rustyroe1263]

I was just elk hunting in that area 2 weeks ago. I worked out of Three Forks from 1966 until 1980 and our seniority district was Three Forks to Deer Lodge going west and from Three Forks to Harlowton going east and then from Harlowton going north to Lewistown, Great Falls, Choteau, Fairfield to the very end of the Milwaukee trackage at Agawam . I was on the crew that took the last train out of Lewistown down to the main line at Harlowton in March of 1980 when the Milwaukee shut down operations after declaring bankruptcy. I then went to work in Oregon for the Union Pacific RR and retired in 2008 with 42 years of service. I was lucky to be a Locomotive Engineer for my last 35 years.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

That's awesome information, I wish I was around for the Milwaukees heyday.jerry Hanley from my maiden ghost town video had told me some stories about his dad being an engineer our of lewistown for the Milwaukee road.i really enjoy talking to people that worked for the road.. I have a video also where I went to south Dakota chasing the line from Terry to Mobridge.

[@MountainWestProductions]

3521…great intro, I like it dirt..swell job so far!

[@lorraineeagle4009]

I just found channel and subscribed. I love history and I hope to someday get out west to explore. Montana, Arizona and Utah are such beautiful states with so much history. I'm glad you got to talk to a few locals to.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Thank you, I'm happy liked it.i have other videos similar to this too and considering doing more of the historical side of things instead of just showing it.

[@lorraineeagle4009]

@@MontanaDirtRoads Yes I went back and watched all of them.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

@@lorraineeagle4009 thank you for your support!

[@marktaylor9975]

Neat ride. EMD is now owned by Caterpillar. The SD-40-2 were built around 68-73 era. Before and after the 1974 de electrification of the railroad. I ran those same units in the 1990s of the Milw. Wasn’t the locomotives not being powerful, it was the politics in-the affair. Love to have taken the Olympian/Hiawatha every decade or more since it opened. The sights, service the maintenance of the scenery, And towns were something to see if sure.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

From what I found on the Web the emd was manufactured by gm and sds where g.e....now I do know gm did sell there part of that but to whom I'm not sure.thanks for letting me know who bought them

[@marktaylor9975]

@@MontanaDirtRoads the General purpose or GP, and the SD or Super Duty were crafted by EMD. Also the SW-Switcher, and MP- Multi purpose. All EMD jargon. EMD was a stand alone company at one time. I’ve ran a few 1939 switchers. Beautiful things. GE bought what was left of Alco hence the Alco styling of trucks and motors. And although hard for me to see I thought that last BNSF might have been a SD-70Mac, I had that vibe but it’s grainy in my screen. So unsure.

[@marktaylor9975]

I forgot this part. IM stands for intermodal trains container/trailer on flat car. Piggyback stuff-Not a unit train of tank cars.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

​@marktaylor9975 thanks for the corrections, hard to keep up with all the changes ya know...thanks for watching and tell your friends!

[@larrydockery7201]

love you vids man rock on i hope one day i can see thes place s

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Thanks man, got another one coming up, gonna go back soon and do more on the area

[@jasonawelch3917]

That was pretty awesome wade. Thanks for the history!

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Wait till the big sky race video comes out !!

[@hughwolfe1176]

I just finished watching the co video you and OutBackJack produced. Thank you for taking the time to produce this content, amazing, I love it… I’ve never spent much time in Montana, just a couple of quick trips across a corner. I can see that I’m going to have to plan a trip, there’s a lot to see. May be a while as we’re in southern New Mexico… My wife and I just finished the last episode of Yellowstone, that got me interested in Montana it’s a beautiful state… Sad that so many old historical locations are becoming “tagged”, no respect for what’s come before… Subscribed to both of your channels as they both look very interesting.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Thank you very much, I'm still kinda finding my My niche in the KZbin and appreciate every sub I get.outback and I are planning a few more of these in the future so stay tuned.

[@mattanderson6336]

Are you able drive the roadbed between Lombard and Three Forks. Imagine Lewis and Clark paddling through Lombard in 1805.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Unfortunately you cannot, most of that is all private now.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Unfortunately you cannot, it's mostly all private now

[@colinware996]

Great video guys. There's a book I think you'd enjoy called Badlands, An American Romance by Michael Rabin. It's about the last homesteading movement in America in Eastern Montana along the MILW and the Nor Pac. Question - the walk east from Lombard got my attention. I thought that was private. Is the owner ok with folks walking to the tunnel?

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

The tunnel is on blm, if you have access to onx maps you'll see where the boundaries are.

[@trainencounters586]

I read that the Montana Rail Link removed that bridge segment in Lombard because it was struck by the boom of a piece of work equipment that was on a rail car. I also read that segment was used to replace a nearby bridge on the MRL.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

It was hit and fell down to the tracks.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Other posts on the internet suggest that the tracks ended in Lombard, but if you look at satellite images the tracks continued through town.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

The tracks continued all the way through montana, if I remember correctly the line ended in Seattle or tacoma...it's 1:36 am right now lol

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

I do appreciate you watching my video,I have others similar and more coming from when I followed it and drove on it throughout Idaho.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

@@MontanaDirtRoads Yeah I clocked out of my restaurant job at 12:48 am central time, almost 2 hours ago.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

@@MustangsTrainsMowers gotta love the night shift

[@kenmartin9227]

The electric line...is called Catinary

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

I forget all sorts of shit when I have the camera going.....don't know why.

[@marktaylor9975]

The one in video was a telegraph pole. The catenary was above the track for pick up. “Spider-web Railroading.”

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Thanks sir.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

@marktaylor9975 so I read that them shorter poles carried the power to the substations to the convert it and put it on the catenary

[@marktaylor9975]

@@MontanaDirtRoads telegraph, the ones not there over the tracks carried the power from the substations.

[@bpeterfeso]

So if you're interested in seeing Lombard there's a movie from 1930 called danger lights. In the end of the movie a train takes a gravely injured Milwaukee Road yard foreman to Chicago and the train passes through Lombard when it was still a bustling town

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

I'll have to look for it, thanks for the tip guy!

[@bpeterfeso]

Also cuz I'm a massive railfan when the first electric locomotive powered train came over the mountain range due to the locos using their regenerative braking the end of the run cost the US government $13.25 because the Milwaukee Road electrics regen'd power back into the system

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

You may enjoy my current project I'm working in then lol

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

@bpeterfeso watched that movie, they had harlo and the eagles nest in there Quite a few times thanks for recommending that video..

[@ricklabadie172]

My brother in law was an engineer for Milwaukee Road Metra Elgin to Chicago from 1970 - 2010. His dad Coop Crist was Train Master at the Bensenville yard

[@glennfoster2423]

The BNSF train was NOT intermodal.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Sorry for the misclassification.

[@NormanSilv]

Ho about Clarks Fork?

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

What about it?

[@hexane360]

Man I wish the US had freedom to roam laws like a lot of Europe does. So much land that's private but completely unused

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

It's used for our food,this is mostly private mainly due to how the railroad procured the land initially.when the np and other railroads that had land granted to them by the government in the 1800s.the milwaukee had to buy every foot and then was sold when they went bankrupt. I have another video further up my Playlist from me driving a section in idaho,this involved tunnels and some bridges which was awesome! I have to finish part two ....just need the time to do it on the pc.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Thanks for watching

[@dknowles60]

that bridge is over apx 100 years old to bad you cant say the Same thing about highway Bridges

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Nope, that whole pacific extension was built to last more then 100 years ,that's a quote one them big wigs for rail road had said.

[@lawrencebrennan3122]

That bridge was knocked down in 87 putting in fiber optic lines. One guy was killed when it came down.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Ya I couldn't remember the whole story when I did this video.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

One day I'm planning on doing some more milwaukee ghost town videos with the historical data written down so I dont forget anything again

[@lawrencebrennan3122]

I was actually working for Montana Rail Link when that happened.

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

@lawrencebrennan3122 sucks that happened, would have been awesome if montana dis what idaho did with the Milwaukee line and turn them into county roads

[@glennfoster2423]

At 15:12 (+/-) the first still-photo of the two units , they are both electric locos; and the following photo ha electrics plus one diesel. The electrification project was never completed between Avery, ID and Othello, WA.