Milwaukee Road A Railroad At Work 1946 Film [4K]

Vintage documentary produced by the Milwaukee Road made just before the centenary of the railroad operations. This shows the services the railroad offered to the public. The Milwaukee Road was a Class One railroad that operated until 1986. The Milwaukee had most of its presence in the Midwest with many branch lines and secondary routes. If you enjoyed this video please don't forget to hit that LIKE and SUBSCRIBE button.

[@Zenniter]

Ah the old days, when times were simpler, and I wasn’t alive

[@jimihendrix1575]

WOW! 4K in 1946. "Johnny doesn't know it, but he's trespassing."

[@Zenniter]

Lol

[@Zenniter]

Who’s listening to this documentary from 1942 in 2020?

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

That looks like typical Milwaukee Road ballast: leftover pea gravel from a highway project held together with fifty year-old cinders from a steam locomotive ash pan dump.

[@b3j8]

At least on the east end in Indiana, where the track was on the (very) low side of fair, your description is 100% accurate. Still, always enjoyed seeing the Miwaukee diesels.

[@HHopebringer]

And now I think only 261 is the only remaining operational steam locomotive. It's kind of amazing how the company was so poorly run, it took an accounting error of its assets at face value (rather than question it) and ran itself into the ground. And to top it all off, they decommissioned their transcontinental route through Idaho and Washington at a time when that line's revenue might have saved it. But thanks to poor maintenance practices? Belly up.

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

HHopebringer Your logic is twisted. It was the Pacific extension’s losses through lack of traffic that drove the railroad into bankruptcy. Not once, but three times! After the line to the coast was abandoned the core railroad became profitable enough to generate interest from three railroads.

[@sword3349]

@@douglasskaalrud6865 yes, but they discontinued the Pacific extension right as the 70s oil crisis occured. Remember that entire section was completely electrified and probably could have saved them money on oil.

[@thetrainhopper8992]

Not to mention when they built the Pacific Extension, they absorbed a bunch of indebted railroads to serve as branch lines. And partially due to managerial incompetence, they never managed to get a significant chunk of the debt discharged or swapped for equity.

[@jalilmuhammad8270]

The Milwaukee Road sold its soul to the Soo Line in 1986! Now Canadian Pacific does the freight handling and dispatching duties.

[@renegadetenor]

That was up to the bankruptcy trustee Mc Millen, not the RR by that time.

[@marktaylor9975]

1985 wasn’t it?

[@jalilmuhammad8270]

@@marktaylor9975 Actually it was 1986. The Soo Line purchased the Milwaukee Road in 1985, but did not completely merge the Milwaukee out of existence until the year after.

[@SIGINT007]

The Milwaukee Road lost its soul in bankruptcy court 3 times

[@oxolotleman7226]

Love the old northerns That Milwaukee shops section was kinda sad to me, those are all gone now.

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

From an era when American industry was appreciated instead of being maligned like is often the case today.

[@swingrfd]

Most industry was run by greedy bastards back then too.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

@@swingrfd and people seemed to be a lot more happy and grateful for what they had

[@swingrfd]

@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory They were happier because they had collective bargaining.

[@MsJamiewoods]

Some of the land where the Milwaukee Road Menominee Valley shops were is now used as paved parking lots for American Family Field (where the Brewers play home games).

[@CheeseCurdBandit]

You spelled Miller Park wrong.

[@MsJamiewoods]

Miller Brewing Co's naming rights contract expired Dec, 31, 2020. MolsonCoors (Miller's parent company) opted to not renew the contract. American Family Insurance is paying for several naming rights (amphitheater at festival grounds and baseball stadium) around the Milwaukee area.

[@normansilver905]

The Class A 4-4-2's and the F-7's 4-6-4's were fast for steamers!

[@pilsudski36]

Very fast.

[@taiwesley913]

Both of them went at least 120mph. They could've broken Mallard's record.

[@MrBsHiawathalandRails]

This was great! Thanks so much for sharing it.

[@mattskey1]

I agree

[@majorhill5302]

My mother was working on the 6th floor "Car Records" office when this film was made.

[@platform1productions297]

Man I miss this era of American rail, RIP to my favorite railroad of all time

[@fordlandau]

The old Milwaukee road !

[@Roy-cu5bv]

Once in a while, I'll see an old Milwaukee Road freight car on a CP train. It's like looking back in time.

[@everettthepetractionguy4222]

Nice video. But, I was somewhat disappointed the F-7 Hudson Hiawatha steam locomotive appeared very briefly in just a few scenes. I was hoping to see lots of footage of the gorgeous F-7. 😔

[@b3j8]

It used to be done just like that. Straight up good business sealed by an honest handshake. Today...never mind.

[@JugSouthgate]

Remember that this film and others like it were promoting the RR and the area served, and would not show ANYTHING negative about them. Remember too that the film was made long before the Interstate Highway System, when most highways were, with very few exceptions, 2 lane roads that went through every town and had speed limits of 40 to 50 mph.

[@raymondscottbehnoud8986]

America's inventive railroad oh I miss the Milwaukee

[@renegadetenor]

5:12 Watched trains at this spot every day for 27 years..

[@renegadetenor]

@ Chicago, Milwaukee, St.Paul and Pacific (Milwakee Road) around Deerfield, Il.

[@120446219]

what was that location, looks like a great train watching area..wonder if it is still there.

[@BH0001]

Techny/Northbrook, IL near Tower A20 at 5:12.

[@120446219]

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[@lawrencesimmons5093]

In the UK we wear ties with our shirts and place sleepers under railway track.

[@120446219]

I would love to know if that plant at 4:48 is still standing...

[@robertgift]

25:15 Mee-mool light *(o)T(o)* with 90° rotating STOP sign!

[@bradhardy2629]

computers sure put a hellava lot of people out of work .

[@cyberkidmfb]

Roads more like...

[@joelvale3887]

Soon robots will end the jobs completely.

[@zilotstudio5289]

Спасибо! Отличная работа. Лайк!!!

[@choirboyfromhell1]

Brand new E7 being delivered on the tail end of that freight? 01:55

[@pilsudski36]

Yes - cut in ahead of the caboose.

[@Isochest]

I'll look this First Generation Diesel up. Nice One!

[@stevenjohnson7086]

No. New power is never trailed behind light caboose. You’re probably looking at a shove move using road power. They are likely shoving the rear balance of their train into a receiving track, cut off in the clear and hang the cab with the power back to the roundhouse or service tracks. And it’s probably not the road crew doing it but a Herder/Hostler yard job.

[@albertpatterson3675]

I wanted to see a "Little Joe", but I guess they hadn't come into service in 1946.:(

[@pkranz937]

They were built in 1948

[@KnapfordMaster98]

This is NOT 4K. This is like a 480p compressed video with severe frame ghosting scaled up to 4K.

[@09JDCTrainMan]

Looks like 265 beside 206 at 8:40

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

The salesman goes over all the attributes of a parcel of land including size, utilities, access, etc. Notice how he doesn’t mention anything about service.

[@deanknowles1631]

No Chinese goods on those trains

[@OKFrax-ys2op]

Marriage than the sleeper car

[@andyharman3022]

Yeah. They were getting into a festive mood because they were going to Seattle to honeymoon in the CHOP zone.

[@odiecalodie]

If they were alive today, they would be in their 90's.

[@chicago-l9125]

This vide documentary although nicely orchestrated, belies just unappreciated the railroads were by a country that depended so much on its function.

[@Zenniter]

I wanna see the Hiawatha

[@captainmorgan757]

Search for, Chasing the Hiawatha.

[@Zenniter]

@@captainmorgan757 Sure the vid has the Milwaukee Road cars bu I’m talking about the locomotive

[@sword3349]

@@Zenniter All of the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha class "A" and class "F7" Hudson locomotives were scrapped in 1951. All that remains of the Hiawatha are the cars currently owned and operated by the "Friends of the 261" in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[@haseljoyonglao3590]

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[@scoobycarr5558]

The Milwaukee Road did a wonderful job just after World War II, but they totally forgot how to do that same job in the 1960s and 1970s thanks to robber baron type managers who never knew how to run a railroad.

[@donnygillihan8768]

It's very sad I loved that old railroad I see many signs of it to this day going over Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State

[@Zenniter]

500th like

[@GEORGE-jf2vz]

Alright, another dirty johnny video.

[@tospisnotavailable6079]

First

[@stevenj2380]

Scenes from a lost America . A new factory! Steam engines. Geez, was any 'businessman' speaking in these shorts young, ever ? Not going to get into 'diversity' etc. here . No hard hats necessary etc. And the glorious old-fashioned, electro-mechanical age.

[@thetrainhopper8992]

There were only 4 ages in old films, 5 years old, "teenager" , "middle aged", and "old as the hills".