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
Milwaukee’s timetable expanded from four pages in 1968 to six in 1970. Yet the trains were fewer than ever; the extra pages are filled with a station index, list of agents, and a table of fares, all of which were … Continue reading
The Milwaukee’s 40-page 1956 timetable was, by 1968, reduced to just four pages, no longer than the 1951 Pacific Northwest timetable. These four pages contain just eight tables of trains. Click image to download a 2.8-MB PDF of this timetable. … Continue reading
Together with yesterday’s timetable, we have snapshots of Milwaukee Road passenger operations before and after Union Pacific transferred its trains from Chicago & North Western to the Milwaukee. The two timetables have the same number of pages even though this … Continue reading
Train numbers 17 & 18 once denoted the Columbian, but by the time of this timetable they had lost the name, only operated as far as Marmarth, ND, and were merged with the Pioneer Limited east of Minneapolis. Click image … Continue reading
