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 No info ... is this Milwaukee? Clock tower looks familiar



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/19 15:16 by valmont.

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An "A+" photo. WOW!
Bob

Glad my wash was not hanging on the line....

Posted from iPhone

Definitely Milwaukee Road Station in Milwaukee. The clock tower was truncated in it's later years. Station was torn down to make way for the I-94 freeway. The former Milwaukee Interurban Terminal is next door. I've never seen a color photo of the street side of the station. There have been many published track side.

Here's my HO version of the station...kit bashed from a Walther's kit. 

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Wow!  What a beautiful model.

CPRR Wrote:
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> Glad my wash was not hanging on the line....
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> Posted from iPhone

Thanks for reminding me .... when a little kid, my mother had to plan her wash day around the
train schedules as the morning westbound wayfreight was still steam powered.  We lived just a couple
hundred feet from the mainline, and on the end of a 1.7 percent grade. She also washed the soot
from the window sills on the side of the house facing the tracks.... Thank for the memories.
SR2

1- Were'nt these Pacifics streamlined for the CHIPPEWA trains?

2- wasn't there a fire that destroyed the elaborate station, replaced by a modern box?

Yes, two of the Milwaukee's F-3 pacifics were streamlined for the Chippewa trains.   According to my mom and dad, I got to ride behind one of them.   The only bummer was, I wasn't quite born yet.  They were on a trip up to Ontanogan, Michigan.   

Craig Hanson
Vay, ID

What a grand photo!  See that building in the background?  I love how so many windows are OPEN, compared to today's sterile buildings that have constantly sealed windows.  Back then, you could open up a window for a breeze or just to hear more of what's going on outside.

Add to that a robust newspaper industry, a big U.S.-made economy, and it all adds up to a great time in U.S. history.  Wish I could go back in time to experience it.

Dumb Question ... Is the train leaving Milwaulee heading south toward Chicago, or does it head for a junction further down to head northeast.

--Outlander Jim

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

JimBaker Wrote:
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> Dumb Question ... Is the train leaving Milwaulee
> heading south toward Chicago, or does it head for
> a junction further down to head northeast.

The train is leaving heading westbound (geographically southwest). It will join the freight main in a block or so.