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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPQ_the-end-of-the-road_Avery-ID.html
Time Runs Out for "America s Resourceful Railroad"
Never-ending financial problems, speedy new interstate highways and jets killed Milwaukee's passenger service to the Pacific Coast by 1961. Stiff freight competition and corporate mismanagement…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPP_bumps-on-the-milwaukee-road_Avery-ID.html
In 1925, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company suffered the largest business failure in the history of the United States up to that time.
The bankruptcy resulted from a combination of problems related to the construction of its we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPO_rough-roads-wrecks_Avery-ID.html
High steel trestles, long curved tunnels and steep rocky embankments could be accidents waiting to happen?
But diligent, hard-working Milwaukee Roaders saw that relatively few wrecks shattered the quiet beauty of the Bitterroots. Occasionally d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPN_laboring-in-luxury_Coulterville-ID.html
For the price of a Pullman ticket, a common rail passenger could be waited upon and pampered in the grand manner of privileged gentry.
The Pullman porter provided the labor for that luxury?
After the Civil War, the Pullman Palace Car Company…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPI_you-want-to-be-a-ranger_Virginia-City-ID.html
Do you have the right stuff to be a FOREST RANGER?!
Forest Service District Rangers today are resource professionals. She/he could be a forester, fish or wildlife biologist, hydrologist, botanist, landscape architect or other professional.
T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPG_railroad-at-war_Syria-ID.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPF_smooth-as-silk_Syria-ID.html
"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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPC_world-class-workers_Syria-ID.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPA_in-the-hole_Syria-ID.html
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…