The Milwaukee Road in the Midwest, Vol. 2

[@roberthassan4411]

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.

[@CVisionProductions1]

Great memory! Thank you for sharing!

[@tracetate2832]

Instablaster

[@erbewayne6868]

The phone systems were connected for a while.

[@genedahlstrom443]

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.

[@oldcodyjr]

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!

[@CVisionProductions1]

That's funny! Yes, it is a very unique name for a very unique signal.

[@scoobycarr5558]

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.

[@CVisionProductions1]

That is correct.

[@dasmikey1964]

This railroad ran thru Danville, IL, but I never got to see it in action. I wonder what kind of horns they used...

@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]

The Milwaukee Road would sell its soul to the Soo Line Railroad in 1986.

[@jakewagner4947]

There's still is a old Milwaukee road switcher here at pigs eye yard at Paul mn

[@6484373]

Jake Wagner yeah, there are two of them, I see them sometimes when I am there.

[@seanycarr3226]

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.

[@HOTRAILProductions]

Does anyone know what year the scenes on the Rapid City, SD line were shot?

[@CVisionProductions1]

1978

[@CommanderFoxhound]

T H E M I L W A K E E R O A D

[@kayakchrispy]

The peanut line from Hastings to Stillwater.. 😊

[@CVisionProductions1]

That’s an interesting name! Do you happen to know how the line got that nickname?

[@kayakchrispy]

@@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.

[@CVisionProductions1]

Ahhh, interesting… Thank you for the information!

[@SD457500]

Great Video! Are you C vision productions then?

[@CVisionProductions1]

Yes, I am! ;-)

[@dd1985]

What kind of cars are being pulled at 2:05?

[@scoobycarr5558]

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.

[@MilesL.auto-train4013]

So that's the origin of the meme...

[@CVisionProductions1]

Yep! It was our narrator, Don Grant. His voice has become very popular.

[@MilesL.auto-train4013]

@@CVisionProductions1 huh. How odd. I guess this goes without saying, this is a certified *The Milwaukee Ro* moment

[@kathystein5581]

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!!

[@scoobycarr5558]

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-dj3wb]

I guess the debt was double counted to

[@geraldgaffey928]

I have a letter, with His signature on it.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

@@scoobycarr5558 Neither of those are very honorable vocations.

[@scottmichaux7487]

Hi

[@speng72]

The Milwaukee designed the coal cars and thall built the cars.

[@thetrainshop]

@dasmikey1964 S3L's/RS3Ls.

[@414RadioTech]

What the hell happened to the music it just suddenly died that sucks

[@CVisionProductions1]

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.

[@414RadioTech]

@@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‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@williamwargo3066]

What gives with the sound ? ? ? ? ? ?

[@CVisionProductions1]

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