Nostalgia & History > The Milwaukee Road Varsity, 1966 and 1967

My friend Rick Burn photographed Milwaukee Road Train 118, the southbound Varsity (Madison to Chicago) at sunset on at least two occasions. As you look at these pictures, remember he was shooting Kodachrome. According to the public timetable of October 31, 1956, The Varsity left Madison at 5:45 pm, made one of its intermediate stops at Janesville, WI at 6:49, and arrived in Chicago Union Station at 8:45. His shots were taken near Janesville. Surprisingly, I did very little to bring his slides back. I purposely left them on the dark side. I think you will find them delightful.

1. and 2. September 1966 north of Janesville with E7A 18B up front.

3. and 4. May 1967 at Milton Junction with E7A 18A.


Nice pictures Rick. Comments and corrections welcome.
Enjoy,
Marty Bernard



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 11/25/14 19:28 by MartyBernard.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/25/14 19:03 by MartyBernard.

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The Milwaukee Road operating crews were based out of Chicago and worked between Madison and Chicago.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/14 05:39 by RodneyZona.

Rodney, why Madison instead of Chicago?

Marty Bernard

Thanks, Marty for posting your friend Rick's pics... in the last one, there's a purple martin bird house in the left corner--we had one on our farm many years ago.
Also, a '65 Mustang and VW Microbus-- railfan vehicles?!?

IC_2024 Wrote:
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> Thanks, Marty for posting your friend Rick's
> pics... in the last one, there's a purple martin
> bird house in the left corner--we had one on our
> farm many years ago.
> Also, a '65 Mustang and VW Microbus-- railfan
> vehicles?!?


I checked Google Earth street view. That mustang and VW bus are not there anymore. LOL!
Cool restaurant at the depot though.

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I've posted this before, but what the hey!

Regards,
E.O.

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And I used it to check the Varsity's times!

Marty Bernard

Not that the VW Bus would be there anyway, but the picture with the CNW FM (which is actually an EX Milwaukee Rd unit) is taken on the old CNW ROW. Marty's shot would be to the left near the grain bins in that pic. Dave

The "C&NW" Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 at Milton Jct. is former Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern #10 and was used by the Central Wisconsin RR.

Ah, that's correct. I forgot about that one oddball unit.