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The Milwaukee Road transported tons of war material and thousands of troops during World Wars I and II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
During World War I, the Federal Government seized railroads in the United States including the Milwaukee…
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"Highballing" fast freight trains..
?known as "Silks", sped raw Asian silk from west coast seaports across the United States for processing into finished garments.
The silks had the right-of-way over freight and passenger trains alike. They …
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"Here is peace and quietude."- President Herbert HooverShortly after his election in 1928, Herbert C. Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry, expressed the desire for a weekend retreat - a place where they could find respite from the demands of Washington…
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Who's Been Working On The Railroad?
If you stood here sometime between 1907 and 1911, you would have heard a multitude of languages.
The hundreds of people employed during the construction of the Milwaukee Road included; Italians, Bulgarians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPB_the-toughest-town_Syria-ID.html
People used to say "Taft, Montana was the toughest town in the west until Grand Forks, Idaho developed."
Located across the valley at the mouth of Cliff Creek, a Forest Service employee described it as,
"?a wild mushroom construction town. T…
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When two trains met on the single track Milwaukee mainline one train would have to "go in the hole". One train moved onto a side track or siding, letting the other train pass by.
Timing a "meet" was extremely important. An off schedule train co…
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You are standing on what was Falcon, Idaho, a lonely but important Milwaukee Road siding named for the raptors that nested in the area. Train passengers gave the place scant notice, but by 1915, a depot, a section house and several other buildings…
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[Cyrillic text](Little Joes, The Locomotives Big Joe Stalin Never Got!)
Made for Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, the United States embargoed these magnificent locomotives as strategic material at the start of the "Cold War".
The Milwaukee Road…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP7_olympian-luxury_Syria-ID.html
Driving across the country today, fueling up at fast food outlets, it is hard to imagine that travel was once much more luxurious. The Milwaukee Road's Olympian and Columbian passenger trains carried elegant dining cars the entire distance from Ch…
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On June 29, 1947 the pride of the Milwaukee Road was introduced— an all new streamlined train called the "Olympian Hiawatha".
The name "Hiawatha" originated with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Song of Hiawatha" written in the mid-1800…