#cmstp&p

[railwayhistorical]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

A view of Milwaukee, forty-five and a half years ago; seen from the North 25th Street overpass. One image by Richard Koenig; taken August of 1979.

[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

[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)

[acarefullycuratedmess]

Crew Change,

Marmarth, North Dakota

1974

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[aryburn-trains]

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

[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]

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 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)

[airmanisr]

Makin Out Like A Bandit by SE Delmar tower Via Flickr: SOO LINE Bandit #4512 rests quietly at Van Yard in Terre Haute, Indiana on August 30th, 2002. I took a dozen photos of this guy because they seemed to be disappearing fast at the time. However, this shit paint job would stay on this locomotive until at least 2013. Soo Line Disgrace GP38-2 #4512 was built by EMD as CMStP&P #362 in August of 1974. The Soo Line would never repaint this in actual Soo colors, but rather leave it look like this until the CP inherited it and painted it in red. It's believed to still be in service as CP #4512. I am glad now that they did not repaint these, but it was sad at the time. Soo Bandit GP38-2 #4512 (nee-Milw #362) Terre Haute (Van Yard), Indiana August 30th, 2002

[hclib]

Delores and Shirley Ann Smiley

Sisters Delores, 9, and Shirley Ann Smiley, 6, headed to the popcorn truck after their lunch in Theodore Wirth Park. The girls lived in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood at 1813 17th Ave. S with their parents Israel and Viola Smiley. Israel was a porter at the Gittelson Jewelry Company in downtown Minneapolis. 

The Smiley house was located next to the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific (CMStP&P) Railroad Yards. Their house and all surrounding houses, churches, and schools in the neighborhood, a large black community, were torn down in the 1950s to make way for what would become the highway interchange at I-94, I-35W, and Hwy 55 (Hiawatha Ave.). Yet another example of how interstate development disproportionately affected poor and minority communities (see also Rondo in St. Paul and the 35W corridor in South Minneapolis), fueling racial injustices in the Twin Cities for decades to come.

Photo from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection (Minneapolis Tribune, May 31, 1948) in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.