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A pair of Milwaukee Road Baldwin switchers idle outside the South Minneapolis engine facility. This location is near where the new light rail cars are serviced.
When someone asked in a thread for SD9s, I said to myself, too bad, I've never shot them. Then I remembered these two. I found them resting at the MILW enginehouse in Bellingham Wa August 9, 1972. That's 533 in the foreground and 532 in the back. The builder's plate on 532 said SD9 (Built Jan...
Here's one for John Crosby. This is the Milwaukee Road's Sumas turn on August 22, 1979. It was raining a bit and that matched the mood of the crew. This was in the waning days of the Coast Extension. My notes say that it was taken in Huntingdon B.C. so they and I have crossed over from the Sumas...
Could it be? Nope, sorry all you Milwaukee Road fans. Just happened to be in the right spot at the right time and CP using the right engine. They pulled these private varnish cars out of the Amtrak depot and are wait for Amtrak 8 to arrive at the depot.
What a great country! We can afford giant public art out in the desert. Certainly better as art than to let those pesky bikers and hikers use it!
Note about yesterday's bridge pix: I stand corrected, the bridge is not over the Skookumchuck River but over a county road. I guess when they...
"Among the modern facilities of the 2,192 mile Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad is the outstanding engine maintenance facility in Tacoma, Wash."
-from a prospective PR release in a parallel universe.
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