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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2007
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Milwaukee Road in 1979 HO scale Train layout
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Milwaukee Road SD10's roll along through South Dakota in 1979!
Burlington Northern in HO scale BN in 1981
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HO scale BN trains trundle along light-rail branchline in the fall of 1981.
Milwaukee Road South Dakota Favorites
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Slide presentation of some favorite pics from SE South Dakota on the Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Road Tribute Mitchell-Rapid City South Dakota Line
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A slide-show tribute to the Milwaukee Road's Mitchell-Rapid City, SD railroad line in the 1970's, shortly before it was abandoned.
Driven to Rapid City many times and to think there was an active RR right next to I-90 is mind boggling. Between Sioux Falls and Chamberlain there's nothing.
At the 4 minute mark--- who was that lucky young man????
Great video I keep coming back to watch simple track plan Great run. Love to see a operation of it. But just running is nice also.
Loved the badlands route shots 👍
Great show , the MILWAUKEE ROAD was the best of the best !
❤❤❤
Excellent very good😊
The Milwaukee Road
WATCO JUST BOUGHT THE REMAINING TRACK BED FROM KADOKA TO RAPID CITY , FROM THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA . PLUS THE MILWAUKEE YARD AT RAPID CITY 13 MILLION DOLLARS . ITS A DONE DEAL . RECONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN NEXT SPRING .
MOdel train BRUh
If the Dakota Southern gets the funds and finishes restoring the line to Kadoka (the tracks are still in place), I can visualize a resurgence of agriculture that was once along the route. We've explored the line and the tracks have been rehabbed as far as Presho within about 20 miles of Murdo. In Murdo there is a large grain elevator that was once used by farms in the area but when the railroad closed so did they. If SD wants and economic revival this RR line will spark it.
In the late 70s I helped put up a grain bin in Draper ,what a depressing place it was.
Look at those cars with no graffiti. Love it!
When the Milwaukee Road abandoned the So Dakota mainline many grain farms along the route and many towns closed up or fell on hard times. We explored that line last year and lodged in Murdo. While the Dakota Southern is doing the best that they can to restore service it has been slow in coming. I do believe that one day the tracks will be rehabbed to Kadoka but the portion that goes on to Rapid City through the Badlands may not be active again as there are few potential customers along that portion of the old line.
i like how the quality makes it look like the 1970s
The Milwaukee pulled out of Tacoma,Wa . in 1980 & took up all the track & over head lines
It was a very sad day when the Milwaukee pulled ot of Tacoma, Wa & the west. I have ticked stub's & time tables. As a child my parent's & I had some nice trip's & it brings back a lot of good memories & it's sad that management was a bunch of dick head's & it's even worse today when they only think of them self
Awesome layout. The Starship song was 8 years later but who cares....I like your version of it. Recognized it immediately.
My dad (and I for one summer) worked that line till the Milwaukee went under. 32 years pops worked in Mitchell. Mitchell to Murdo and later the Murdo to Rapid City. Brakeman and conductor. I worked the Mitchell to Chamberlain Section gang for a summer.
I worked with Bob for about 3 years. I was a young brakeman and worked the guys vacations from Rapid City to Mason City. My dad was a depot agent on that same part of the railroad for 35 years. We lived in the depots at Scenic, Okaton, and Draper. I quit in June 1975 to take work elsewhere.
beautiful fotos and beautiful music !!!
A way freight visiting the towns & industries on a branch line!
Nice video. Sad to see the demise of the Milwaukee Road. As I understand it, government accountants found huge irregularities in the books of Milwaukee Road as they folded up. For example, Harlowtown, Montana was the division point between the east and west branches of Milwaukee Road. Government accountants found all expenses for the western half of the road has been double entered, taking a railroad that should have shown profit to a loss level. Just a guess here on my part, but suspect there was some big embezzlement going on that was funneling money away from the railroad. Follow US 12 NW from Forsyth, Montana and you run along the old mainline roadbed of Milwaukee Road almost all the way. Sad to see the results of this area loosing rail traffic. Abandoned roadbed, bridges gone, ghost towns where there had once been small towns along the line. A real waste.
Light rail...poorly maintained track...slow speeds..most memorable facets from my train-riding hobo days.
They didn't believe in maintenance.
Milwaukee RR blew all their $$ on other ventures. Nothing to the tracks. They let it die. The bosses were just bad businessmen.
As business declined the amount of track a section gang had to maintain went from 7 miles to about 27 miles. They just couldn't get more than basic maintenance done. That is trying to keep the track level and fixing a broken rail, in addition to traveling over the track in their motor cars to visually inspect. I road that track as a brakeman from 1972 to mid 1975. From Murdo to Rapid City, half was slow-ordered to 20 mph, the other half to 25 mph.
Which bridge is at 1:05 to 1:07?
Anyone have pictures of the line going through Grand Meadow Mn? My family had a farm in the SE corner of town just one block south of the tracks.
Update. The Dakota Southern is slowly working its way west and restoring service on this old Milwaukee main line. They now go as far West across the state as Presho that is about 30 miles from Murdo the halfway point. Plans eventually call for extending the line to Kadoka which is just before the Badlands route through Interior and Scenic to Rapid City. The tracks are all there to Kadoka and can be rehabbed. The ROW portion through the Badlands is rail banked as Kurt noted.
DENNIS LAGRUA THE DAKOTA SOUTHERN WAS SOLD TO THE WATCO RR GROUP, SUMMER 2021
@@rossbryan6102 yeah, that was after the comment was made. He can’t see into THE FUTURE.
@@rossbryan6102 WHY ALL CAPS?????
My Dad, Jay Vaughan was Section Forman on a stretch of this line at Kadoka, SD His section of track was between Belvideer and Interior, SD, Great memories, He retired in the early "60's..
The Milwaukee line is mostly gone but I believe that there still is a freight line that runs West from Sioux Falls across SD to Rapid city. It might be the old C&NW line .
I salute the hardworking dedicated employees of the Milwaukee who labored under oppressive criminal management. Read "The Nation Pays Again" to appreciate the scope of the fraud and ineptitude of their so-called "leaders". Fond memories but tragic end.
IF I had the money I would have a new loco in this Milwaukee Road scheme & have 1980 as the loco number
How many people would volunteer if a railroad took over the line from Rapid City to Kadoka and began tourist runs and a working rail museum? The tracks would need to be put back in; and volunteers needed to run, maintain and restore the locos and railcars. A railroad is in talks with DOT; with the hopes that the tourist/museum operation will help reinstall at least some of the 98.5 miles. With grain mills rail service having been abandoned; and the possibility of coal (thanks to President Trump authorizing coal production again), there may end up being enough shipment in/out, plus the tourist and museum trade to reopen the line. I know that used trackage on other abandoned lines is being looked at, for removal and movement to the Rapid City to Kadoka portion of the line. That also would give the Dakota Southern an option to ship Westward shipments; instead of all having to go East to Mitchell. Post what you think about this. I know that talks with DOT have begun.
That would be a really nifty idea for a Durango & Silverton-like tourist operation through South Dakota's Badlands. And here's another idea - having the Black Hills Central Railroad to connect with this line at Rapid City and therefore allowing tourists who visit South Dakota the best of both worlds. The two working railroads would link the Black Hills and the Badlands directly, therefore giving tourists the better option instead of taking their car to these two tourism hotspots.
Another option in the operation of trains freight wise is to have the Genesee & Wyoming purchase the line for the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern and turn it into a line for freight car storage. Looking at the views from up above via Google Earth along State Highway 44, the track is still there although there's no maintenance on that track for at least 60 years. The problem is however that there are roads that have been paved over the ROW and many grade crossings have been removed.
The line has ben renovated as far a Presho and sees regular service as far as Kennebec. However, the rails are completely gone from Kadoka to Rapid City. DSRC only operated one train to Kadoka, but only to say that they had done it. The problem is that between Murdo and Rapid City there is not enough potential for grain traffic to justify fixing the line or to pay for maintaining it - there is simply not enough grain production in that area for it to work logistically speaking. With I-90 so close and accessible, the possibility of a tourist operation is extremely slim. I too would love to see these things happen but having lived in the area and documenting the line extensively, I just don't see it happening.
IT DIDN't HAVE TOO BE THIS WAY! BN DIED SOO DIED MILW DIED! ALSO C&NW! BN DIDn'T NEED ATSF!
Cn NW = UP
you can still commonly see the BN on the BNSF..
FNBS Stobe the Hobo!
I MISS MY YOUTH!
I MEAN, C&NW & BURLINGTON NORTHER HAD A BRANCH LINE IN HOPKINS MINNESOTA AND MILWAUKEE ROAD HAD A MAIN LINE THRU HOPIKINS SO DID C&NW SO, C&NW& BN HAD A RED OWL BRANCH LINE TO THE FACTORY! IT TURNED INTO SUPER VALU. WHEN SUPER VALU CLOSED THE RED OWL, BN HAD TO LEAVE! ALSO C&NW LEFT! C&NW MAINLINE GONE WHATS LEFT OF IT IS SOO LINE TOOK OVER MILWAUKEE, THEN THE TWINCITIES&WESTERN CAME AND TOOK THE LINE FROM SOO>
God I miss the BN. Green, white and black!
great to see there putting this line back in service see dm&e on it and bnsf
Dakota Southern operates the line from Mitchell to Kadoka. Track rehabilitation has taken place from Mitchell to Chamberlain. From what I was able to gather, the line will be rehabilitated from Chamberlain to Kennebec. Though this has not been confirmed, plans may be in place to rehabilitate all the way to Kadoka.
They've been working on the Missouri River crossing bridge they have sprayed weed killing on the tracks west of that. Bnsf has to much traffic on there main lines out West so there looking for new west rails
No coal will ever move over this old line. it is too late for that.
The line is still there
the line from chamberlain to presho going to be repaired!
SW's,F Units,Geeps & SD's appeared in this,MP15's were not.Also the Bay Window Cabooses & the Rib Sided Boxcars,etc by the way would appear.
The SD's made "Great Lash-Ups" on the Freight Trains.Also including the Bay Window Cabooses bring up the rear.
Great video !
Indeed there T H!,There was very plenty of time to include it all before the line went history since 3/1/1980.
In Milwaukee days however,Mitchell was the hub of the R.R. It ran in 4 directions.
Mitchell was the hub of the Iowa Dakota Division, but the mainline ran from Chicago to Milwaukee to St. Paul to Aberdeen to Lemmon and on out to Seattle.
The Kadoka-Rapid City line is now Railbanked.
May become a RAIL-to-TRAIL later on.
Actually, to keep it available for trains again and the Rails To Trails record of NOT giving back right of ways for train use again, the Stage of SD DOT now owns the right of way. There is a movement to put the line slowly back in, as both a switching railroad, tourist railroad & transportation museum. You will hear more soon (good or bad news will be posted).
The Orange & Black Paint schemes on the Diesels were commonly known as "Pumpkins" for years of MILW 's existance.
Fun video to watch. Very retro!!
This is a great looking layout, and I love how you "weathered" the video to make it look era-appropriate! Well done!
Right, the SDL-39's in Brazil, thanks for the info.
Great video!
nice trains!!! Those SD-10's I believe are on the ALL railway in Brazil now.
It looks like eastern Washington. Is that where this layout is intended to take place?