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Milwaukee Road Locomotives Vol 1 EMD Freight & Passenger E,F, & FP Units Strauss
Milwaukee Road Locomotives Vol 1 EMD Freight & Passenger E,F, & FP Units by Thomas J Strauss
Hard Cover
160 pages
Copyright 2006
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 3
Author's Railroad Career f1 Dedication 4
Introduction 6
Road Freight Locomotives - Covered Wagons:
Table 1: FT (cab-booster-booster-cab) Nos. 35A-B-C-D through 47A-B-C-D 12
Table 2: F3 (cab-booster-booster-cab) Nos. 80A-B-C-D through 83A-B-C-D 22
Table 3: F7 (cab-booster-booster-cab) Nos. 84A-B-C-D, 85A-B-C-D, and 86A 30
Table 4: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 87A-B-C through 89A-B-C 32
Table 5: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 74A-B-C through 79A-B-C 37
Table 6: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 68A-B-C through 73A-B-C 46
Table 7: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 48A-B-C through 50A-B-C 55
Table 8: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 106A-B-C through 108A-B-C 60
Table 9: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. IoA-B-C through 111A-B-C 64
Table io: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 112A-B-C 69
Table 11: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 113A-B-C through IISA-B-C 71
Table 12: F7 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 119A-B-C through I2IA-B-C 80
Table 13: F9 (cab) Nos. SIC (2) through 86C (2) 86
Table 14: F9 (booster) Nos. SID (2) through 85D (2) and 86D 87
Author's Recollections of F Series Lomomotive Fleet 94
Road Passenger Locomotives:
Table 15: E6 (cab-cab) Nos. ISA-B: "Fast Fifteen" 97
Table 16: E7 (cab-cab) Nos. I6A-B through 20A-B 102
Table 17: E9 (cab-booster-cab) Nos. 200A-B-C through 205A-B-C 112
Table 18: E9 (cab-cab) Nos. 36A-C through 38A-C 122
Table 19: FP7, F7B, FP7 Nos. 90A-B-C through 94A-B-C127
Table 20: FP7, F7B, FP7 Nos. 95A-B-C through 105A-B-C138
E, F and FP Diesel Unit Photograph Locator Index 159
Complete Milwaukee Road E, F and FP Unit Roster and Renumbering 160
INTRODUCTION
Milwaukee Road entered the era of internal com- bustion, when it acquired two 80-ton, 650-horsepower, gas-electric locomotives from the Whitcomb Locomotive Company. The first, No. 5800, was placed in service during November 1929, and the second, No. 5801, was placed in service during June 1930. Both switchers were rebuilt as diesel-electric locomotives by the Whitcomb Locomotive Company during August 1941, and they were renumbered as 1800 and 1801.
However, there was a span of almost ten years before the Milwaukee Road acquired its first diesel-electric locomotives. When it did decide to acquire such locomotives during 1939, the railroad ordered locomotives from all of the builders who were in business at that time. This decision presented Milwaukee Road with a very diversified roster of First Generation diesel-electric locomotives.
American Locomotive Company (Alco) delivered Milwaukee Road's first diesel-electric locomotives (switchers) during March 1939. These two switchers were HH-660, 660-horsepower models, and they were placed in service as Nos. 1602 and 1603.
Milwaukee Road acquired its first Electro-Motive Corporation diesel-electric locomotives (switch-ers) during June 1939. The first 600hp SW1s were assigned as Nos. 1610 and 1611, while the first 1000hp NW2s were placed in service as Nos. 1650 and 1651.
Baldwin Locomotive Works provided its first diesel-electric locomotive (switcher) to Milwaukee Road during May 1940. It was a model VO-660, 660-horsepower switcher which was placed in service as No. 1649. However, it was changed to No. 1635 soon after it had entered service. Most of the Baldwin switchers were later assigned to Pig's Eye Yard in St. Paul and the South Minneapolis Yard. The St. Paul Locomotive Shops maintained them, and some of them also worked in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Winona and Red Wing, Minnesota, and in various towns on the Hastings and Dakota Division including Montevideo, Minnesota. They became very popular with the Twin Cities Terminal yard crews, because they could pull anything "hung on" to them.
General Electric Corporation built the first 44-ton, 380-horsepower switcher for Milwaukee Road during September 1940, and it was placed in service as No. 1690. However, soon after it entered service, the Milwaukee Road renumbered this light switcher as No. 1699 (2).
The American Locomotive Company built the first road-switchers for the Milwaukee Road during June 1941. These two model RS-ls were placed in service as Nos. 1678 (1) and 1679 (1). However, these two road-switchers were requisitioned almost immediately by the United States Army Transportation Department for wartime service, and these two locomotives were never returned to the Milwaukee Road.
Milwaukee Road's first diesel-electric road freight locomotive, the GM: EMD FT four-unit, 5,400-horsepower locomotive No. 40A-B-C-D, was placed in service during October 1941. It was assigned to westbound Train 263 and eastbound Train 264 over the Gap" between Avery, Idaho, and Othello, Washington. This FT introduced the very popular F-Series freight and passenger locomotives to the Milwaukee Road. The first FTs came in a unique gray with orange and yellow trim color scheme and with silver wings on their noses.
Diesel-electric road passenger locomotives were assigned during September and October 1941 to some of the passenger train runs between Chicago and the Twin Cities. These new two-unit passenger locomotives, Alco model DL-109 Nos. 14A and 14B and EMD E6A Nos. 15A and 15B, came to the Milwaukee Road in October and September, respectively. E6A Nos. 15A-B were the very unique diesel locomotives that set several speed records between Chicago and Milwaukee and between Milwaukee and La Crosse, and they sold Milwaukee Road on diesel locomotives for its passenger trains. Both sets of locomotives demonstrated their greater availability over the steam engines they replaced by being assigned to the northbound Afternoon Hiawatha, Train 101, and the southbound Morning Hiawatha, Train 6, with quick turn arounds to the southbound overnight Fast Mail, Train 56, and to the northbound overnight Fast Mail and Express, Train 57. These assignments lasted during the Second World War years until additional diesel-electric road passenger locomotives (E7A Nos. 16A-B through 20A-B) arrived from the builder during June 1946.
When the Fairbanks-Morse Corporation decided to enter the field of diesel-electric locomotive production, Milwaukee Road acquired its very first locomotive from the production line. This model H-10-44, 1,000-horsepower switcher was placed in service during August 1944 as No. 1802.
With the arrival of the first postwar Alco roadswitchers, model RSC-2 Nos. 975 through 992 during the last two months of 1946 and into May 1947, Milwaukee Road assigned several of them to completely dieselized its freight and passenger trains on the Valley Line in Northern Wisconsin between New Lisbon and Minocqua via Wausau, the first region on the Milwaukee Road to be completely changed from steam engines to diesel-electric locomotives. Those assigned to the Hiawatha-North Woods Service and Tomahawk were equipped with steam generators for train heating and air-conditioning.
The first two-unit Cow and Calf switcher set, model TR2 Nos. 2000A-B, was received from Electro-Motive Division, and it was placed in Bensenville Hump Yard (Chicago) service during December 1949. It was designed for transfer and hump yard service.
Over several years from the time the two Whitcomb switchers, Nos. 5800 and 5801, were acquired during 1929 and 1930 along with the first Alcos (Nos. 1602 and 1603) and EMCs (Nos. 1610 and 1611) in 1939 to Milwaukee Road's last order for EMD MP15ACs (Nos. 434 through 465), the Milwaukee Road acquired 1,269 diesel-electric units. This all-time locomotive roster included 864 EMDs, 129 Alco units, 54 Baldwins, 153 FMs, 58 GEs, and 11 units from miscellaneous builders.
This pictorial volume, the first in a series of volumes on Milwaukee Road's steam engines, diesel locomotives, electric motors, freight train service, and passenger train service, presents information on Milwaukee Road's First Generation road freight and road passenger diesel locomotives that were built by General Motors: Electro-Motive Division. It includes photographs of these locomotives in both freight and passenger train service.
The second pictorial volume will present information on Milwaukee Road's First Generation switcher and road switcher diesel locomotives that were built by the Electro-Motive Corporation and General Motors: Electro-Motive Division. It will include photographs of these locomotives in freight train, freight yard, and transfer service.
It is projected that Volume Three will present information on Milwaukee Road's First Generation diesel locomotives that were built by the American Locomotive Company, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Fairbanks-Morse Corporation, and miscellaneous builders. This volume will include data and photographs of these locomotives in freight train service, in passenger train service, and also in yard and transfer service.
Volume Four will follow with a presentation of Milwaukee Road's Second Generation diesel-electric locomotives, which contributed to the inauguration of its high-powered, high-speed freight trains such as the XL Special, Thunderhawk, Roaring 90's, and Sprints. As the Milwaukee Road approached merger into the Soo Line in 1986, it changed the exterior appearance of several classes of its diesel-electric locomotives, and it also initiated a couple of locomotive rebuild programs. In addition, it finally gained access to Portland, Oregon, with freight train service after many earlier attempts to do so had failed. It also decided a few years later, however, to abandon its two Electrified Districts, as well as its entire Puget Sound Extension. All of this will be covered in Volume Four.
Volume Five will cover Milwaukee Road's modern steam engines, including the streamlined Atlantics and Hudsons that were assigned to the renowned Hiawathas, and the various electric motors that were assigned to Milwaukee Road's two Electrified Districts.
Milwaukee Road's extensive passenger train service will be presented in two volumes, most likely. They will include operational data for and color photographs of its Hiawathas and "Cities Streamliners" as well as black and white photographs of its early Hiawathas and other named passenger trains.
Most of the photographs that are projected to appear in the seven volumes of this Milwaukee Road series have never been published. Also, as information is presented in the locomotive rosters and photograph captions, an awareness will be gained by the reader that the Milwaukee Road had an inclination to change locomotive numbers frequently, in some cases of individual diesel locomotives and electric motors as many as four to seven times.
Included in this first volume is an abridged version of the author's 44 years in locomotive service as a Milwaukee Road, Soo Line, and CP Rail employee with rights on the La Crosse and River Division's River District (St. Paul-La Crosse), on the "Skally Line" (St. Paul-Duluth), and in the Twin Cities Terminal Division (Minneapolis and St. Paul) yard service. Where appropriate, the author has included personal comments about his Milwaukee Road locomotive service experiences. Welcome aboard!
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