Let's See Your Milwaukee Road

@Dave Koehler posted:

who made the 4-6-2

Sorry for the terrible delay, but this is a Weaver locomotive. Seen here a Hudson meets a Pacific

The Milwaukee Road was big in Tacoma and I have a lot of their equipment in my collection.  Below is the #1933573 Milwaukee Road Legacy Bipolar #E-3, that Lionel produced in 2019.  It runs nicely on my 054 curves.  Its pulling Lionel Milwaukee Road "baby madison" passenger cars from 1974.  I changed the couplers that were not operational to ones that were operational and rewired the trucks so there was pickups on both sets of trucks for better lighting.

Getting the roofs off is tricky on the Baby Madison" cars.  Here is a thread on tte topic. 

Lamp Replacement Baby Madison style car | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum (ogaugerr.com)

Tacoma's new Amtrak Station is basically a homage to the Milwaukee Road.  Its its located on property that is called the "Freighthouse" which was formerly owned by the Milwaukee Road.  It sits alongside where the old Milwaukee Road Passenger Station used to be.

Below is a model of the Milwaukee Road train station in Tacoma.  The model is located on an HO layout that is in the Washington State History Museum ithat is housed in a building that is next to Union Station, and built in the same style.   

The crew managing the layout were super helpful in letting me get close up to take this picture.

Model Railroad - Washington State Historical Society (washingtonhistory.org)

Little Joe hauling Heavyweights over the trestle.

Bob

This is all I have, it's a real "Short Line".

Two diesels and two electrics.

I only have two passenger consists for the Milwaukee Road, but they're some of my favorites. Here's a view of my MTH Premier Hiawatha scale coaches.

I also have this very handsome MTH tinplate 250e Hiawatha set.

As luck would have it, I'm running both of these on the layout right now, so here's a video.

Here are two videos from 2011 that feature a Milwaukee Road layout by a cinematgrapher, Don McCuaig. The layout was also featured in OGR Feb. 2011.

The Last run of MR; https://www.youtube.com/watch?...hT7s_p6A&index=2

Greatest;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?...hT7s_p6A&index=1