{"product_id":"milwaukee-road-1850-1960-photo-archive-by-pa-letourneau-soft-cover","title":"Milwaukee Road 1850 - 1960 Photo Archive by PA Letourneau Soft Cover","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:126160 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:98%;padding:2px;margin:auto;border:5px outset #673434;background-color:#FDF3D0\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:1px inset #673434;margin:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:0px;padding:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRailroadTreasures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eoffers the following item:\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\";padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMilwaukee Road 1850 - 1960 Photo Archive by PA Letourneau Soft Cover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMilwaukee Road 1850 - 1960 Photo Archive by PA Letourneau   125 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eCopyright 1996\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eSoft Cover \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe Milwaukee Road began as the Milwaukee and Waukesha Rail Road in 1847. The original charter proposed a 20 mile route, but by 1849 it was revised to allow service to Madison, the Wisconsin state capital, and beyond to the Mississippi River, which defined a portion of Wisconsin's western border with the Minnesota Territory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe first five mile section of track was operational in November 1850. by which time the road's name had been changed to the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road. The line between Milwaukee and Waukesha was completed in February 1851. Madison was reached by 1854: the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien by 1857: and the road's first brush with extinction by 1860. In 1861. following voluntary foreclosure, the road was sold to East Coast interests and was renamed the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien Railway. In 1867. the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien was absorbed by the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, and control was returned to Wisconsin interests. The Milwaukee and St. Paul acquired the St. Paul and Chicago Railway in 1872. With nearly 1,400 miles of track and terminals in the three principal cities of the Upper Midwest, the system clearly merited redefinition. In 1874. it was renamed The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eOver the next 30 years, through both the construction of new track and the acquisition of existing railroads, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul expanded within Wisconsin, Illinois. Minnesota, and Iowa. It entered the Dakotas and Missouri, adding terminals at Fargo in 1885 and Kansas City in 1887. By 1890. the company had reached an agreement with the Union Pacific that brought the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul across the Missouri River from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Omaha's Union Station; it purchased the Milwaukee and Northern Railroad Company and thereby gained access to Michigan's iron-rich Upper Peninsula. By 1890, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul operated in eight states, and total track miles stood at just over 7.000. an impressive 400 percent increase since 1874.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe next significant spurt in the company's growth followed the decision to expand to the Northwest on a route from South Dakota to Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. In October 1905, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company of Washington was incorporated as The Pacific Railway Company. and construction of the line was begun from Mobridge. South Dakota in the spring of 1906. Completed in less than three years, at a cost exceeding $230 million, the expansion west added more than 2,300 miles to the Milwaukee Road, traversing western South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. The electrification of 650 miles of the route, begun in 1914, cost another $23 million.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe road west was financed through the sale of long-term bonds. The burden of this debt would eventually bankrupt the Milwaukee Road, although it was not the sole reason for its failure. In 1925. the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company was forced into receivership. Reorganized under the control of National City Bank of New York and the investment bank of Kuhn, Loeb \u0026amp; Company. it operated in receivership until 1928, when the newly formed Chicago. Milwaukee. St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company purchased its assets. This company. too, would fail in June 1935, a victim of decreased revenues during the Great Depression. Reorganization moved slowly through the maze of private interests-the stock and bond holders and creditors-and the Interstate Commerce Commission's bureaucracy. No reorganization plan had been accepted by the time the US entered World War 11. Throughout the war. the Milwaukee Road continued to operate and, as did most US railroads. prospered. A reorganization plan was finally approved in 1944 and the company emerged from bankruptcy in early 1945.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe Milwaukee Road celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1948, amidst the sense of post-war optimism that had infected all of America. It was a time of rebuilding and refitting at the Milwaukee Road, as rationing of materials during the war had delayed replacement of equipment. A national shortage of freight cars kept the Milwaukee's car-building shops working overtime. The changeover from steam to diesel required significant investments in locomotives and maintenance facilities. All this during a period of declining traffic, as airlines, personal automobiles, and interstate truck lines attracted an ever-increasing amount of passengers and freight. Sadly, the Milwaukee Road never regained the momentum it had maintained throughout much of its history. By 1960, the final year covered by this book, the Milwaukee's glory days lay only its past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe photographs in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMilwaukee Road 1850 through 1960 Photo Archive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003ewere selected from the collection of The State Historical Society of Wisconsin. An effort was made to include a variety of photographs. depicting steam, electric, and diesel locomotives, train crews, construction workers, shop employees, and various facilities. However, many aspects of the Milwaukee's history could not be documented, as the Society's collection is by no means comprehensive. Nonetheless, as is evidenced by this volume, the collection is an impressive and valuable record of one of America's greatest railroads.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eAll pictures are of the actual item.  If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad.  Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. 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