Nostalgia & History > Milwaukee Road Steam, Rick Burn Purchased Slides, Part 1

Milwaukee Road Steam, Rick Burn Purchased Slides, Part 1

Probably in the 1960s Rick Burn purchased a set of Milwaukee Road color slides taken by A. C. Kalmbach and sold by Blackhawk Films titled "Milwaukee Road Steam Locomotives".  I have scanned and edited the 56 slides and will post most of them over the coming week or two.  I am posting them with permission.

Al Kalmbach took the photographs circa 1950, and as you would expect, in and around Milwaukee.  Many of the slides titles do not give dates or locations.  I have used the original slide titles adding some technical details.  The slides have color and c ontrast problems which I fixed as best I could.

Even if you are not a Milwaukee Road Steam fan (are there any?) you will find these interesting because they were taken during the transition from steam to diesel.

Here are six slides.

1. Taken at the downtown Milwaukee Station in 1951.  F-3 151 has the Chippewa for Green Bay and northern Michigan.   The switcher is an SW1 built in November 1940  The station's clock tower was decapitated in the 1960s when I first got there.

2. Occasionally a 10-wheeler would pitch-hit for a doodlebug, as is this one at Elm Grove, WI on a Janesville train.

3. Milwaukee Road S-2 4-8-4s were hefty looking brutes wrote Al. Kalmbach (or somebody) as the title for third slide.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/05/18 10:34 by MartyBernard.

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Well, these should give us a few sleepless nights... LOL

Great stuff!

Greg Stadter
Phoenix, AZ

4. The Class S-2 4-8-4s were busy on time freights even up to the last gasp of Milwaukee Road steam.

5. Milwaukee Road's Prairie types were essentially built for through freight service in the rolling Midwestern sections of the road.

6. This USRS Mikado was heading west with Time Freight 263 for Seattle.
 
Enjoy,
Marty Bernard
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/04/18 23:53 by MartyBernard.

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Wow!! Awesome photos, thanks for sharing them.

Thanks , Marty, for posting these MLW steam slides.

Your restoration work deserves an "A+" to go along with the "A+" for the images themselves.
Bob

WOW.

Thanks for posting.    I'm looking forward to see more from this fine collection.

-John



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/05/18 10:06 by LarryDoyle.

Fantastic restoration of what were pretty much awful Blackhawk slide dupes.  Wow!

Wow!

Bib required for viewing.

Calling Mr Peabody!!!

/Mitch

What film did they use for the dupes? Kodak slide duplicating film or some other commercial film?

Film?  No way to know from the slide mount.   Marty

Marty, these are really good, many thanks;
BTW shot #5 with the Prairie appears to be in the Milwaukee WI area given the Milwaukee Electric style high tension structure in the back ground
which often straddled the row for the old interurban. Not sure about that, but they were distinctive.