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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP9_secluded-falcon_Syria-ID.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP8_little-in-name-only_Syria-ID.html
[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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP6_the-olympian-hiawatha_Syria-ID.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP5_the-mighty-quills_Syria-ID.html
The Unknown Locomotive
Called the "unkown" locomotive by some rail enthusiasts, few people now recognize the heavyweight of the Milwaukee's Rocky Mountain Division, the Baldwin-Westinghouse EP-3.
Between 1919 and 1955, these big motors pulle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP4_johnsons-big-cut_Syria-ID.html
"Fire in the Hole!"
In 1908, a Milwaukee contractor named Johnson needed to blast out a path through the rock face next to the Barnes Creek Trestle, #218. Blasters chiseled out five "coyote holes", stuffed them with 25,000 pounds of blasting po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUP0_milwaukee-road-muscle_Syria-ID.html
It took a lot of mechanical muscle to pull the Milwaukee Road's long, heavy passenger and freight trains over the rugged Rocky Mountains and tough Bitterroot Range. The Milwaukee Road used a great variety of powerful locomotives to do the job. In …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOZ_electrified_Syria-ID.html
When Water Powered the Road
It made a great deal of sense to the Milwaukee Road's directors to electrify portions of the mainline when building the western extension.
They could reduce the high cost of oil-fired, steam powered locomotives. E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOY_signs-wires-whistles_Syria-ID.html
Grief could come to a big, fast train suddenly. Railroaders needed to see and hear warnings and orders clearly and quickly.
The engineer and crew watched for standard signals over each section of track and kept their eyes and ears open for sign…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUOX_mountains-of-copper_Syria-ID.html
Depending on who you talk to, the hills around you contain either rich copper deposits or a lot of hot air....
Between 1889 and 1922, miners explored a number of promising mining properties near Adair. They encountered ore containing copper, sp…