This is an odd booklet, as it seems to commemorate the Milwaukee Road’s 92nd anniversary–which isn’t exactly a year that normally is cause for notice, at least not for corporations. Most of the interior text is in a typewriter font, … Continue reading
This 24-page booklet has 22 pages of information and pictures of the Golden Gate Exposition and two pages of information and pictures of Milwaukee Road trains. I’ve seen almost identical booklets, distinguished only by the railroad name at the bottom … Continue reading
Various publishers issued paperback booklets like this for selected rail routes, such as the Rio Grande (“Rocky Mountain Views”), SP’s Portland-San Francisco line (“Shasta Route”), and Union Pacific’s Overland Route (“Pathway to the Setting Sun”). While not railroad issue, they … Continue reading
Though this booklet (which I scanned from the Spokane Public Library Northwest collection) has lots of black-and-white photos of Milwaukee trains in the mountains, its main purpose is to provide a technical overview of the railroad’s electrification. When installed in … Continue reading
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound–the Pacific Coast extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (which in those days was known as the St. Paul Road; the nickname changed to Milwaukee Road only after the company went bankrupt and … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection all relate to Milwaukee’s Puget Sound Extension, often abbreviated PSE. The PDFs range from about 350 to 600 KB in size. The Olympian was inaugurated in 1909, but the “new” Olympian referred to … Continue reading
These Milwaukee Road blotters from the Dale Hastin collection are characterized by having lots of text and minimal graphics. The PDFs range from 350 to 600 KB in size. Dating blotters is often guesswork, but something tells me that this … Continue reading
Here are four more of Dale Hastin’s Milwaukee Road blotters. The PDFs range from 300 to 500 KB in size. Inaugurated in 1898, the Pioneer Limited was Milwaukee’s first named train and long its premiere overnight train. This blotter advertises … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection were all issued by the Milwaukee Road before the war. The PDFs are 300 to 500 kilobytes in size. The first one is the easiest to date as it advertises the 1933 Chicago … Continue reading
This note pad has no passenger content, but it provides some background to the sad demise of the Milwaukee Road. When the Great Northern and Northern Pacific merged into the Burlington Northern in 1970, one of the concessions they made … Continue reading
