Milwaukee Road timetable chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railrad

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This auction features a April 30, 1950 timetable for the Milwaukee Road. Amazing condition. Please ask questions.The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (often referred to as the Milwaukee Road) (reporting mark MILW), was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwest and Northwest of the United States from 1847 until 1980, when its Pacific Extension was embargoed through the states of Montana, Idaho, and Washington.Early years[edit]The Milwaukee & Waukesha Rail Road was chartered in 1847. Before it laid its first rails in 1850, its name was changed to Milwaukee & Mississippi, and in 1851, it reached Waukesha, Wisconsin, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Milwaukee. The railroad reached Madison in 1854 and Prairie du Chien, on the Mississippi River, in 1857.[1][2] In 1858, the La Crosse & Milwaukee Rail Road was completed between the cities of its name, forming a second route across Wisconsin between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River. It was reorganized in 1863 as the Milwaukee & St. Paul, and in 1867 it purchased the Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien, successor to the Milwaukee & Mississippi.[1]The Milwaukee & St. Paul ("The Milwaukee Road") acquired in 1872 the St. Paul & Chicago, which has just completed a route down the west bank of the Mississippi from St. Paul to La Crescent, opposite La Crosse. In 1873 the Milwaukee & St. Paul completed a line from Milwaukee south to Chicago. A year later it added "Chicago" to its name, creating the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway (CM&StP).[1]In the next few years the railroad built or bought lines from Racine, Wisconsin to Moline, Illinois; from Chicago to Savanna, Illinois, and two lines west across southern Minnesota. The railroad reached Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska, in 1882, and reached Kansas City in 1887. In 1893, the CM&StP acquired the Milwaukee & Northern, which reached from Milwaukee into Michigan's upper peninsula.[1][3]Pacific Extension[edit]The battle over control of the Northern Pacific Railway and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1901 made the Milwaukee Road aware that without its own route to the Pacific it would be at its competitors' mercy -- a commodity the railroad industry was singularly short of. At the same time the Milwaukee Road -- considered one of the most prosperous, progressive, and enterprising railroads in the U.S. at the time -- was experiencing a change in its traffic dominance by wheat to a more balanced mix of agricultural and industrial products. Arguments against extension westward included the possibility of the construction of the Panama Canal and the presence of strong competing railroads: Union Pacific (UP), Northern Pacific, and the Great Northern Railway. Arguments for the extension banked heavily on the growth of traffic to and from the Pacific Northwest.[4]In 1901 the president of the Milwaukee Road dispatched an engineer west to estimate the cost of duplicating Northern Pacific's line. His figure was $45 million ($1,262,700,000 today). Such an expenditure required considerable thought; not until November 1905 did Milwaukee's board of directors authorize construction of a line west to Tacoma and Seattle, Washington.[4] In 1905 and 1906 the Milwaukee Road incorporated subsidiaries in South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. The Washington company was renamed the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway (CM&PS), and it took over the other three companies in 1908. It was absorbed by the CM&StP in 1912.[4]The extension began with a bridge across the Missouri River three miles upstream from Evarts, South Dakota, at a point named Mobridge. Roadbed and rails pushed out from several points into unpopulated territory. The work went quickly, and the railroad was open to Butte, Montana in August 1908. The route from Harlowton to Lombard was that of the Montana Railroad, the "Jawbone," so named because of the contrast between the promising statements of the line's promoters and the company's perennially-... read more

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