Milwaukee Road by Fredrick Hyde w/ dust jacket All color pictorial

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Milwaukee Road by Fredrick Hyde w/ dust jacket All color pictorial
 
The Milwaukee Road by Fredrick Hyde
Hard Cover with Dust jacket   Reflection from the lights on some photos.
192 pages
Copyright 1990
Chapter One: Amid The Urban Sprawl  6
Chicago Terminal and Terre Haute Divisions
Chapter Two: West From Chicago  16
Dubuque & Illinois Division
Chapter Three: America's Breadbasket  30
Iowa Division
Chapter Four: Into The North Woods42
Milwaukee Division
Chapter Five: City To City  54
La Crosse Division
Chapter Six: Land Of The Sioux  70
Iowa Minnesota & Dakota Division
Chapter Seven: Wide Open Spaces  82
Aberdeen Division
Chapter Eight: The Great Divide  92
Rocky Mountain Division
Chapter Nine: The Gap  136
Coast Division
chapter Ten: Rainshadow To Rainforest  148
Coast Division
Epilogue  186
Winter on Snoqualmie Pass
Index and Bibliography  192

This is an all-color pictorial of a railroad where words of description often fall short: the Chicago. Milwaukee. St. Paul & Pacific. Pictured are all of nature's obstacles the Milwaukee Road boldly overcame: bitter winters; hot, dusty deserts: primeval forests drenched in rain and smothered in snow: crumbling mountain canyons: and five major mountain ranges. Photographic coverage follows each of the Milwaukee's mainlines, from Chicago to the great railroad hubs of Louisville, Kansas City, Omaha. Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Seattle and Portland. Its secondary lines and branchlines, into the gloomy forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. the picturesque dairy and corn country of Wisconsin. Illinois. Minnesota and Iowa, and across the infinite prairies of the Dakotas and Montana. are covered as well.
Pictured in this book are the unusual locomotives. passenger trains, and freight trains that made up this exciting railroad: Little Joe and boxcab electrics; a multitude of diesel locomotives from every manufacturer; passenger trains with the Milwaukee's unique and exotic streamlined Skytop observation-lounge cars; heavy trains mastering mountain grades with helper engines. Twelve maps with many detailed insets show the complete system. every operating division. the Milwaukee's major mountain passes, and major terminal areas.

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