Let's See Your Milwaukee Road

@marty track posted:

And a couple more

Very nice electric, and I really like the bridge scene especially the gulls. Where does a guy find them??

Ebay. Small plastic birds come in 2 sizes. Gy26075 And  gy26050 they come unpainted but a little dark color on the wings a yellow beakand your good to go

OK Thanks. I'll take a look on e-bay.

I am a little late to the party, all so far is freight equipment. I would like to add some passenger equipment but that will have to be home brew.

Ray

GGD 1947 Hiawatha!!!

Here is my Milwaukee Road #8035, celebrated its 50th birthday last week!

@SANTIAGOP23 posted:

GGD 1947 Hiawatha!!!

Beautiful stuff!

Ray

I'm a scale modeler, but I still admire tinplate.  Here is a rust bucket 259E that I restored and finished in Hiawatha colors.

Bob

Lionel Postwar GP

Westbound at SummitC

Boxcabs and Fs meet at Mid-Grade

One of my all time favorites  

@Rick Wright posted:

Boxcabs and Fs meet at Mid-Grade

Under Pennsy signals????

MTH Bi-Polar and Phoenix passenger cars.

My wife bought this Lionel Standard O Boxcar for Christmas this year its one of my favorites 

MTH Milwaukee Pacific with Menards Trains rolling stock.

The loco is an original Lionel that was converted to outside 3rd rail a long time ago. When I bought it it was all apart and the paint was chipped and was very dark from a very thick coat of shellac. The conversion was done with a purpose built chassis with very detailed rods and valve gear. The only Lionel parts that were used are the boiler and tender bodies, everything else was replaced. I put a center rail pickup on the loco and tender. It runs quite well on 072 Fastrack. There is also a pretty well detailed cab interior. I am assuming that this was done with a conversion kit that was available in the 1940s. If anyone has any information on this please let me know.

The passenger cars are original 1930s Walthers built kits that I had collected over the years. They were all in horrible shape. Most of them had scratch built interiors in them. I added interiors to the cars that did not have anything inside.  I restored them a few years ago and put K-line trucks on them.

MILW ALCO RS1 #1677.

CMStP&P Bipolar by MTH.

MELGAR

A couple ore cars. Factory paint on the left and my paint work on the right...

Tom

Any of you OGR railroaders have a model of Milwaukee Road U25B 5057?  It is currently being restored to be placed on display in fromt of the Cle Elum, WA depot by the Cascade Rail Foundation.  Check'em out at www.milwelectric.org 

When fully restored, 5057 will be one mean clean machine for sure!

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

MILW ALCO RS1 #1677.

                                     Johan, this shot looks absolutely real! Nice work!  

@PAUL ROMANO posted:

                                     Johan, this shot looks absolutely real! Nice work!  

Paul. Thank you very much.

Johan

@RRDOC posted:

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

MILW ALCO RS1 #1677.

Wow!   I looked at the photo and said to myself "Nice prototype photo."  I never imagined it was a model until I saw Paul's comments above. I still didn't believe it and I had to enlarge the photo.  The only giveaway was not the model.  It was the figure on the right.  

Fabulous weathering and scenery.   

Bob

Bob. Thank you very much. 🤝

Johan

                                       I found a few in the collection....................

SIRT, great looking Milwaukee yard.

Scale Rail: Your little freelanced electric looks like something right off Bob Hegge's Two Rail O scale Crooked Mountain Lines. 

Wonder why Bob (RIP) didn't construct the CML to 1/4" fine scale standards?  He was a master builder, using Code 100 rail on the layout and after removing the overhead on the island terminal laid third rail in it's place.

Any Crooked Mountain Lines fans here besides me?  Let's hear from you!  Better yet, are there any O gaugers who have built a layout using the CML plan modified to fit their needs?

Item: Oh yes, how silly of me, I almost forgot.  I'm a big fan of the Milwaukee Road Little Joes!  Love the cut off buffer plates on the pilots.  Cool!

Joseph Toth Jr.

Godspeed

Please pray for World Peace.  Our children deserve it, as do their children's children too!

Menards and the Milwaukee

@MELGAR posted:

CMStP&P Bipolar by MTH.

MELGAR

 

Great photos 👍👍 I'm running with 0-42 curves - what's the tightest curve you've been able to get a Bi-Polar around?

My MTH Bi-Polars are  A-OK on 072 but do not like 061, they bind on the 061 curves to a point that they struggle to get through with a heavy load. I run them on just my 072 main lines.

I bought this on eBay a while ago. It was advertised as a partially finished prototype built by Glenn Guerra of Mullet River models. As you can see it needed some help to straighten it. I had to build a frame and floor. The ladders are from a Lionel bay window caboose. I added some interior details from Scale City Designs and LED lighting. The trucks and pickups are vintage Walthers. Decals are Champ.

Really nice job on the caboose 👍

Bob

Only Milwaukee I own.

Scott Smith

@milnyc posted: I completed the station and have it placed on the layout next to the freight house. 

I recently purchased 2 kits from HRM Laser Models. They are highly detailed craftsman type wood kits. I have the Freight House built and am starting on the depot. Shipping was very fast and I highly recommend this supplier. He also has a coaling tower and handcar shed available in O scale.

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Neither prototypical nor O scale, but this HO GG1 is sorta fun!

American Flyer never made a Milwaukee Road streamline passenger set but I was able to purchase some AM F-units and AF cars painted in Milw. Rd. colors. Be gentle, the cars are not prototypical but the paint scheme is very nice.

Ray