Milwaukee Road - Harlowton

[montananext]

Visit the Milwaukee Road at Harlowton, Montana. The Milwaukee Road depot has been restored to the tune of some $100,000.00 in the past six years. The Milw. boxcab E57B awaits your visit in the city park. The depot building is on the National Historic Registry. Walk through the yards and see the "goat" which served as a switcher at the Deer Lodge turntable for decades. In addition, the Upper Musselshell Historic Society museum uptown has the largest collection of HO Milwaukee Road models open to the public in the United States; some 550 models. The Society's railroad library contains some 2,500 books, DVDs, videos LP records and magazine articles and photographs featuring the Milwaukee Road; again the largest in the United States. Finally, visit the Society's web page (harlowtonmusem.org) to access some 165 web sites dedicated to the Milwaukee Road. Click on the Milw. Road button on the home page and again click on the Milw. Road button on the railroad page to access this Milwaukee Road web portal. Come visit Harlowton in person and on line!

 

[montananext]

The depot has been completely repainted inside and outside. The orange and maroon colors are gone; no one could figure out where those colors actually came from. The depot's exterior is currently white and dark grey (from the 1930s - but on its way to the more familiar grey on grey of the 1960s) and the interior is the standard cream green. Inside, the depot features the original, for example, telephone exchange and station hand carts.

 

[montanan]

I have been there quite a few times. Still have a few living relatives that worked for the Milwaukee Road living there.