Here are few items from the Milwaukee Road. One is from my collection, but most are just images I found on the web.
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First is this ticket envelope advertising the Gallatin Gateway route to Yellowstone Park. It is undated; inside, someone has handwritten “Leo Newhouse, Tour Conductor” and “Dearborn Station 9:05 am.” The Milwaukee Road didn’t use Dearborn Station, but it is possible someone took a Milwaukee Road train from Minnesota or Wisconsin to Chicago to catch a Santa Fe tour to the Grand Canyon or somewhere else in the Southwest.
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The ticket envelope also notes that the Milwaukee was “America’s longest electrified railroad.” This 1934 postcard given out at the Chicago Century of Progress Expo shows that the railroad exhibited one of its large bipolar electric locomotives at the fair. This locomotive had been built by General Electric in 1919.
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This postcard was issued by General Electric, possibly in 1919, showing one of the bipolar locomotives at work in the Washington Cascade Mountains. The train is probably the Olympian. (This postcard, along with a similar one, was previously shown here.)
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After the Century of Progress Expo, Milwaukee introduce the streamlined Hiawathas. Luggage tags like this one would have been applied to cases and trunks of people who rode one of these fast, steam-powered trains.
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Finally, this 1968 ticket came with the tours information shown in the last couple of days. This ticket wasn’t used on a tour, however, as it was only good for a ride from Glenview, just north of Chicago, to Milwaukee. The fare for this 68-mile trip was $2.37. This is about $17 in today’s money; currently Amtrak fares start at $24.