THE MILWAUKEE ROAD

       This page will cover the Chicago to Milwaukee main and the Milwaukee area.

             SD40 172 brings a westbound off the MILW track and onto the Chicago &
                                       Northwestern at Bryn Mawr.  The MILW freights used the C &NW for a 
                                       short stretch from the Bensonville yard to the main near Des Plaines.  
                                      With both C &NW and MILW trains this was, and still is, a busy piece of track.

             SD40 198 is eastbound on the C&NW at Des Plaines.

             This line crossed the busy C&NW east-west mainline and the SOO here.  
                                       Duval interlocking

             Back onto MILW track here at Northbrook.  Home of the Allstate Insurance Company.

            A Metra two car midday local at Northbrook.

             A busy commuter stop is Deerfield.

             A not-so-exciting shelter at Lake Forest. 

             SD40-2 201 with the new Hiawatha emblem and a small herald on the nose rolls
                                       through Rondout.

             The SD40's became more common on through freights after the Pacific Coast
                                        main was abandoned.

             A very punctual eastbound 'Empire Builder' flies through Rondout passing the old
                                      Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee interurban bridge abutments.  
                                      All of the above photos were taken on Sept. 17, 1984.

             Going back a few years to March 1976 and a French built Turbo trainset is coming
                                       south (east).  I'm up on that bridge abutment.  The line swinging off to the left is
                                       the commuter line to Fox Lake  which also continued up to Madison, WI.

              The train is crossing over to the normal eastbound main.  That is the Elgin, Joliet
                                        & Eastern crossing.

              The turbo train was running around this trainload of auto frames behind a rather
                                        worn out 4-unit set of F7's.

              Wisconsin had a number of automobile plants and this was good traffic for the MILW
                                         and the C &NW.

              The green signal means there are no orders for the crew and the train accelerates south.

              Wadsworth, Illinois.  9-17-84.

              Another SD40, the 181 leads a quick moving eastbound at Russell, IL.

              SD40-2 203 is eastbound at Hoyt St, on the south side of Milwaukee.

             Another shot of the 'Empire Builder' taken on the south side of Milwaukee.  Also on time!

             A trackside view of the modern Milwaukee station.  1984.

             Someone talked me into using Ektachrome film and I should have known better. 
                                       Together with a low  winter sun and a film that rendered everything in blue,
                                       it resulted some poorly exposed images.  Since everything is now history, 
                                       I have decided to present them anyway.  March 1976.

             Here we have a Baldwin, a Fairbanks-Morse and an Alco unit all in one image.

            The MILW had a number of the FM switchers.

             760 is at the end of the engine house lead.

            A view from the window of my Amtrak train shows FM 783 still in service.  May 1979.

             A visit in September of 1984 yielded only these four units in the entire shop area!

             GP9 314 leads a westbound at 32nd Street on March 14, 1976.  What is the name of the
                                        junction?

             The standard pair of SD40's brings another westbound through here on Sept 16, 1984.

             SD40 203 swings east passing under the C&NW at Wauwatosa, WI.

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