Skip to main content

I am in process of creating a Train Dispatcher 3 program spanning Green Island to Atkins Iowa based on the Marion cTc board.  I was given a set of 1959 Milwaukee employee timetables that listed both passenger and freights through this area.  Using a 1962 U.P. timetable, I identified the following trains:

101 & 102 City of San Francisco

103 &104 City of Los Angeles

105 & 106 City of Portland

111 & 112 City of Denver

By 1962, trains 101, 103, 105 etc were mashed together as "trains of everywhere".  However  I cannot find names for employee timetable trains 19 & 20 and 107 & 108 (if they had them or were just un-named passengers), and therefore probably might be Milwaukee's own "run through" trains?  These time table times are late night or early morning, precluding local commuter type runs I believe.

Time table sleuthers can probably fill in the the blanks.

Freight trains I assume were un-named except informally by local employees ie "Paralta peddler",  "Atkins milk run" .

Original Post

Replies sorted oldest to newest

RRman, Most if not all the Milwaukee Road's name trains were last run in 1961. The Olympian Hiawatha ended in May of 61. Train 15 & 16 continued during the 1961 through 64 park season. "Some people called it "The City of Deer Lodge" but there was no official name. The Afternoon Hiawatha train #203 and 202 continued to be a express-coach only between New Lisbon and Wausau tell 1965. I have a library of Milwaukee books but can't find much after 61. There were many short trains still running but none of them Name Trains. Don

scale rail posted:

RRman, Most if not all the Milwaukee Road's name trains were last run in 1961. The Olympian Hiawatha ended in May of 61. Train 15 & 16 continued during the 1961 through 64 park season. "Some people called it "The City of Deer Lodge" but there was no official name. The Afternoon Hiawatha train #203 and 202 continued to be a express-coach only between New Lisbon and Wausau tell 1965. I have a library of Milwaukee books but can't find much after 61. There were many short trains still running but none of them Name Trains. Don

Thanks!

Side story that I may have told here before.  When I was 15 in 1962, I traveled to California to visit my uncle & aunt and go to Seattle World Fair.  I rode on a U.P. that ran on Milwaukee tracks across Iowa, passing through Marion Iowa.  And then my family moved there in mid 1970s. 

And now my daughter lives in one of Seattle's COVID19 hot spots.  Luckily she can work from home.

rrman, my first train trip was from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 1952 or 53. We road the Coast Daylight with a GS-4 in front. Loved it and still remember the smell of the dinning car. I watched out the window the entire trip. Even though I model the Milwaukee Road and lived for a time in Washington State I never saw the Milwaukee Road. I do love electrics and it was one heck of an electric line. We did have the beautiful green Northern Pacific Passenger train go through Toppinish. We just had our first case of COVID19 today on the island. DonDSC_0355

Attachments

Images (1)
  • DSC_0355

Add Reply

Post
×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×
×