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This film is awesome! Thanks for finding it Charlie. I think I saw a couple of good shots of their S3 class steamers in the film.
Great documentary on how the railroad functioned on a daily basis from an operation standpoint. Shows how labor intensive the railroads were back in the day.
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Thanks for posting this Charlie. Besides being a tragic tale, it shows just how easily greed and short-term thinking can destroy something that took over a century to build, and that could have been even greater if managed properly.
That is an awesome article Charlie.
As always, it makes me appreciate the so-called "robber barons" who poured their lives and their fortunes into railroads.
The tale of the MILW is as much as any other modern industry that was run into the ground in the interest of short-sighted "entrepreneurs" or lawyers with no personal capital at stake grabbing the fast cash and running with their bonuses.
And it confirms that no politician or railroader alive today would have the foresight to electrify as the Milwaukee did with the pacific extension or the PRR and Roosevelt did with New Deal money.
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