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Milwaukee Road Its first hundred years, The by August Derleth Hard Cover
The Milwaukee Road Its First Hundred Years by August Derleth
Hard Cover
330 pages
Copyright 1948
CONTENTS
I. Introduction1
Il The Milwaukee And Mississippi13
Iii. Expansion And Collapse37
Iv. Alexander Mitchell Takes Control67
V. The Road Fights Regulation97
Vi. Standard Oil Moves In125
Vii. The Milwaukee Looks West157
Viii. To The Pacific177
Ix. Receivership And Reorganization197
X. The Milwaukee Carries On227
Appendix A: Corporate History265
Appendix B: Chronological History288
Bibliography311
Index 317
INTRODUCTION
Not far out of Portage, I came to Dead Man's Cut on the Milwaukee Road's line, and, nearby, a little place enclosed by a white picket fence. I wheeled over to it and discovered there a lonely grave, over which towered two ancient oaks, and I recognized it for the grave of a trackworker killed during the building of the road in 1858. This isolated grave was the subject of Alfred Burrett's poem, "The Grave of a Section Hand":
They laid him away on the brow of the hill, Outside of the right-of-way, -way, And the old boss whispered: "Peace, be still Till the call on the Final Day." They had placed him where he had wished to lie When his turn would come, he said; Where he'd list to the wires' mournful sigh, To the foreman's "Joint ahead!" For many a year he had paced the beat; He had pumped o'er every tie; And now from his narrow, last retreat, He could feel the freights roll by; For from his rest, 'neath the willow's shade, His spirit would guard the track; He would know when the engine struck the grade, Hear the call, "Center back!"
The "willow" had somehow become oaks, but the grave was unchanged, cared for still by the section crews of the Milwaukee.
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