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Chartered in 1849, the Milwaukee Road eventually extended its tracks across the northern tier of the United States to the Pacific Ocean. Noted for its innovative electric motive power and passenger service, the line’s successes were overshadowed by weak management and strong competition. By Spring 1982, all Milwaukee lines from the West Coast to Minnesota had been abandoned, and in 1986 remaining Midwest lines were absorbed into the Soo Line. Today CP Rail operates what remains.

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Milwaukee Road Electric Switcher E-81 is using a trolley pole rather than a pantograph for power as it switches in the snow at Butte, MT, on April 27, 1958. Four of these small switchers (Class ES-2’s) were on the roster, numbered E-80 through E-83.

Locomotives and named trains featured in this edition include:
• Milwaukee Road Electric Switcher E-81 is using a trolley pole rather than a pantograph for power as it switches in the snow at Butte, MT, on April 27, 1958. Four of these small switchers (Class ES-2’s) were on the roster, numbered E-80 through E-83.
• Milwaukee Road “Erie built” Engine 9-A is sitting at the Milwaukee, WI, depot on February 9, 1952.
• Milwaukee Road 426, a Class L2-b Mikado (2-8-2), built in 1923 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is leading a freight at Techny, IL, on March 27, 1947.
• Milwaukee Road Bipolar Motor E-4, leading Train #15, the westbound Olympian Hiawatha is making a station stop at Deer Lodge, MT, on April 29, 1958. Motor E-4 was one of five Class EP-2 Bipolar Motors built by General Electric in 1918.
• Milwaukee Road’s “Little Joe” Class consisted of 12 Motors, all purchased from General Electric in 1950. Motor E-72 with another “Little Joe” trailing have arrived at Avery, ID, with a westbound freight in September 1970.
• Milwaukee Road 99-C and an E-9B are blowing past the tower at Rondout, IL, at about 90 miles per hour southbound with Train #58, The Fast Mail on June 19, 1967.
• Milwaukee Road 2511, 2510 and 2509, all three are H-16-44s, are on a freight, switching at Mendota, IL, on July 4, 1958. Milwaukee purchased 37 of these 1,600 horsepower units from Fairbanks-Morse between January of 1954 and February of 1956.
• Milwaukee Road Class EF-5 four-unit Boxcab E-33 has cut away from its eastbound freight at Othello, WA, on July 6, 1958.
• Milwaukee Road 261, a Class S-3 Northern (4-8-4) is leading an eastbound 72 car train into Council Bluffs, IA, on September 5, 1953.
• Milwaukee Road 5 glistens in a fresh coat of paint as it sits at Chicago, IL, on October 8, 1970. Milwaukee purchased five of these locomotives from Electro-Motive in December 1968.
• Milwaukee Road 88C-88B-88A sits at Duluth, MN, on September 30, 1957. The orange and chocolate brown paint scheme was the original one for the first A-B-A class F-7 diesels from EMD. They were rated at 1,500 horsepower per unit. Three of these 3-unit sets were delivered in October and November 1949.
• Milwaukee Road 596 is on a local freight near Cashton, WI, on April 8, 1972. The power consist for this train includes two RSC-2s and an RSD-5, all built by the American Locomotive Company, the RSC-2s in 1949 and the RSD-5 in 1953.

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Before automobiles and buses there were streetcars or trolleys in virtually every American city. Streetcars & Trolleys recalls that era through historic photographs from around the United States. Images from city systems featured include: Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis, New Orleans, San Diego, Yonkers, and more.

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Streetcar lines and locations featured in this edition include:
√ Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Car 453 has stopped to pick up passengers at Batavia Junction,
Illinois in January 1951. 453 provided local service between Chicago and Aurora, Illinois.
√ Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Snow Sweeper 024 is working eastbound on Farnham
Street, one of the busiest streets in Omaha, Nebraska on March 25, 1952.
√ Chicago Transit Authority Car 298 is on Chicago Avenue at Kedzie on March 13, 1951.
√ San Diego Electric Railway Car 421 is at Balboa Park in San Diego, California on April 22, 1949.
The rail line shut down a few weeks later.
√ The Third Avenue Railway System (TARS) was built to extra-large proportions. Here is Car 397 coming through downtown Yonkers, New York on July 12, 1952.
√ This is Milwaukee Rapid Transit and Speedrail Company Car 66, seen here at West Junction, Wisconsin on June 14, 1951.
√ Baltimore Transit Car 5745 is on the Ellicott City Shuttle at Catonsville, Maryland on July 1, 1951.
√ Sand Springs Railway Car 72 is arriving at Tulsa, Oklahoma in September 1954.
√ Twin Cities Rapid Transit Lines PCC Car 433 is in the Como Park area of Minneapolis,
Minnesota in September 1953.
√ New Orleans Public Service War Bond Car 832 is on Route 19 at New Orleans, Louisiana on
October 17, 1943.
√ Lehigh Valley Transit Company Car 704 is at the 69th Street Terminal at Allentown,
Pennsylvania on September 7, 1948.
√ Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Car 118 is at the Crandic Yard at Iowa City, Iowa in the winter of 1948.

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