#cmstp&p

[railwayhistorical]

Milwaukee Road Commuter, Chicago

This commuter train, just north of Chicago Union Station, is seen at a place called Wolf Point (which is no longer accessible due to a structure built over the tracks.)

The train is being powered by Milwaukee Road E9A 37A, built in April of 1961. I believe it may be saved and can be found at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Image by Richard Koenig; taken February 27th 1977.

[20th-century-railroading]

CMStP&P train, engine number 4, engine type 4-4-2 Passenger; 7 cars. Photographed: south of Deerfield, Ill., June 21, 1946.

[zponds]

12 days, I made a post going over my OCs from the Chicago & Northwestern. Now this post will go over my OCs from…

Now these engines in the Milwaukee Road heritage fleet are under ownership of Soo Line, BNSF and Union Pacific, and these engines are only found…

on railroad territories there were once owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), which was more commonly known as The Milwaukee Road. And these OC engines from the “Route of the Hiawatha’s” are…

Mike, the 4-4-2 Class A #2 and first Twin Cites Hiawatha engine

Otto, the 4-4-2 Class A #3 and first Midwest Hiawatha engine

Stevenson, the 4-6-4 Class F7 #100 and second Twin Cities Hiawatha engine

Penny, the 4-6-4 Class F7 #102 and second Midwest Hiawatha engine

Gaston, the streamlined 4-6-0 class G #10 and North Woods Hiawatha engine

Whitsun, the streamlined 4-6-0 class G #11 and second North Woods Hiawatha engine

Hubbard, the streamlined 4-6-2 class F3 #151 and first Chippewa Hiawatha engine

Cassie, the streamlined 4-6-2 class F3 #152 and second Chippewa Hiawatha engine

Courtney, the 2-8-2 class L2 #361

Maxie, the 4-8-4 class S3 #261

Olympus, the FM Erie-built #6 and first Olympian Hiawatha engine

Zeus, the FM Erie-built #5 and second Olympian Hiawatha engine

Reanne, the EMD F7 #60a

Amanda, the EMD F7 #80a

Grant, the EMD F7 #109a

James, the EMD F7 #69a

Cal, the EMD GP40 #2026

Arthur, the EMD GP40 #2057

Mindy, the EMD GP40 #2035

Norman, the EMD GP40 #2006

[acarefullycuratedmess]

Crew Change,

Marmarth, North Dakota

1974

[aryburn-trains]

CMStP&P steam locomotive 4-8-4 S3 #265 on passenger train the Arrow. Chicago, IL August 17, 1950

[collinthenychudson]

It’s a lazy Summer day as an A-B-A Set of Milwaukee Road Erie-Built diesels lead train No. 15, the Westbound Olympian Hiawatha, to Seattle, Washington. The train is making its way through Montana along the St. Regis River and a ranch where a group of horses munch on the grass and watch the train thunder by.

Models and Route by: Trainz, Auran, and Download Station

[guerrerense]

img102 por Don Melsha Por Flickr: CMStP&P No. 4 Council Bluffs Photo by Richard Billings Collection Don Melsha

[urbs-in-horto]

Looking north toward Wrigley Field and Addison Avenue down Seminary Avenue. There used to be a multi-track rail car yard just west of Wrigley, serving a number of businesses adjacent to Clark and Addison. I remember a coal yard and a poultry processing plant. The Milwaukee Road railroad, more formally named The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P) once provided freight service as far south as Diversey via street level sidings. More info about the forgotten days of freight trains in the city at Industrial History website. (Many more shots of Wrigley Field area)

[aryburn-kc]

Kansas City Southern 27 at Kansas City, MO

[marmarinou]

Rainy day in Bensenville by Mike Danneman Via Flickr: “On a wet November 23, 1986, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 193 sits near the sand towers at the locomotive facility at the sprawling yard in Bensenville, Illinois. Access off Green Street, on the left, was so easy back then. Now there’s nothing much left here to see.”

Photo by Mike Danneman

[milwaukeeroad]

Dropping into Monroe Center, IL by Lance Via Flickr: In a scene that has hardly changed at all since this view more than 25 years ago, a westbound Milwaukee Road freight heads toward Savanna as it rolls down the hill toward the Mulford Road grade crossing on the east side of Monroe Center, IL. MILW 170 leads the way from the Spring of 1983.

[railwayhistorical]

Rockford, Illinois (Part Two)

This is a northbound movement on the Milwaukee Road in Rockford, Illinois. We first see the train at Buckbee Street where it will soon cross the Illinois Central. That lead unit, 89C, was built for the Milwaukee in 1949.

The next two shots come from Cedar Street: the train has since crossed over the Rock River and is ducking under the Chicago & North Western, the bridge visible in the second shot. In the going away image, it is entering what was previously a small yard.

One might not think of northern Illinois as being part of the Rust Belt, but looking at a USGS map of this era, one sees just how busy this place must have been back in the day. In addition the roads mentioned above, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy seems to have had a branch line here.

Three photographs by Richard Koenig; taken November 27th 1976.

[20th-century-railroading]

CMStP&P locomotive, engine number 5801, engine type Whitcomb 90- Ton Photographed: Chicago, Ill., September 26, 1935.

[zponds]

What-If: American Railroads — Section 1: Railroads Still Around

Now with my alternate history of American railroads, it involves and revolves around 20 American railroads…

New York Central System (NYCS)

Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)

Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O)

Baltimore and Ohio (B&O)

Norfolk and Western (N&W)

Southern Railway (SOU)

Seaboard Air Line (SAL)

Atlantic Coast Line (ACL)

Gulf, Mobile and Ohio (GMO)

Illinois Central (IC)

Missouri Pacific (MP)

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific // Rock Island (CRI&P)

Chicago and Northwestern (CNW)

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific // Milwaukee Road (CMStP&P)

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy // Burlington Route (CB&Q)

Northern Pacific (NP)

Great Northern (GN)

Union Pacific (UP)

Southern Pacific (SP)

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe // Santa Fe (ATSF)

[acarefullycuratedmess]

[aryburn-trains]

Milwaukee Road Class A 4-4-2 #4 with the Midwest Hiawatha, taken at Omaha, NE, June 1947.