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This rail line did not deserve the fate it suffered and with the rite person running the line could p to make a big comeback and.return to greatness

You kept on changing the blasted videos much, that I couldn't even count the number of freight cars he had! If you are going to make these videos, you could at least show the whole train! I give this video an f! You cannot sell a video when you are constantly changing the frames!

Whoever made this video, you did a good job making it, but you did a poor job with the sound ,and you failed to say how many freight cars he had. Why didn't you at least count the cars and put it in the video?

So sad!the US government stood by and did nothing to help the rock island,and the Milwaukee railroads. As a result, we lost two trans continental railroads. I still remember when both the Carter and the Reagan administration's should have stepped in and help the employee save these two railroad s. I am so very disappointed with the US government, that EVERYTIME is look at those railroads, it brings back sad memories of what could have been!yes, they are gone, but not forgotten!

Does anybody know how many freight cars they had! Please reply!

This is how I remember all trains sounding until about 2002.

Love the sound of those 16-645 prime movers down on their knees bringing that tonnage up out of the Mississippi River valley, you noted this was taken at Preston Rd, didn't the Milwaukee cross over that road on a wooden viaduct?

part of this historic time period

Excellent! Thanks for sharing this! Oh for the good old days!

Excellent Video! Man how I miss the Milwaukee Road 😫

Man how I loves the Sound of them SD 40’s!!!

I love those old classic horns you don't hear them anymore

-What a diverse load, International Harvesters, InterModal, boxcars, maybe some coal....wow

Wow Old School IC paint schemes towards the end they had black color it's cool to see a caboose on the end of the train 🚂👍

It takes me back when I was a kid camping in Dresbach MN a lot of trains thank you 😊

Don't you just miss those wig wag signals! The railroad supply companies should build a modern wig wag signal with LED lights & sell them to railroads across the US ;D

This is the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad after absorbing the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad in 1972 and becoming the Illinois Central Railroad again in 1989. The IC was originally founded in 1851.

Was it heading to Sabula, Iowa or to Kansas City, Mo?

The Milwaukee Road was in severe financial pain at the time this train was filmed. It was also feeble and incapable of fighting anymore financial battles with the federal government. The Soo Line alleviated this by absorbing the Milwaukee into itself in 1986 and Canadian Pacific now runs freight trains through Chicago and the upper Midwest.

Two EMDs working their guts out on their final years of service on the MILW.

If that were a Saturday or Sunday I was probably just out of sight down on the Lake Sabula beach.

YAY !!

I miss it.

Wish I could've seen some in real life. Just means I have to model them instead.

Very Nice. Thanks for sharing this video.

Loved the airslide U.P.hopper with silver trucks at 2:50.

I remember watching trains here when Dubuque was all Milwaukee Road.

so I take it the conductor in the caboose has to be a bridge tender too?

i miss milwaukee sd40's roaring thru danville,il on leased trackage rights from conrail.

Great video! I think this is likely the only footage of a functioning oscitrol headlight on all of youtube

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I believe it's a K5LLA?

Nice catch! What kind of horn is that?

That 2 stroke bike sound after the train clears the crossing is also nice. Great vid.

beautiful just beautiful

I liked this video the moment I heard that teardrop bell come alive.

Great to a geep on the point.

Good video quality 4 the age awesome!

I can feel the sand and dust blowing towards me as it rolls by. And i smell slight "baked" traction motors too.

This is actually Wacker Rd. Preston Rd. goes under the tracks a little farther east.

I love this era. Pullman standard hoppers everywhere, still plenty of 40 foot boxcars around with there roofwalks removed, lots of older cars from the late 40s and 50's still in use, and of course, the milwaukee road was still in existence.

Studly. I have many fond memories of a couple carriers later watching ICE try and slug it out up the hill. Brings back a couple memories. Sweet!

The Milwaukee Road once had the 20-series SD diesels for use for the Pacific Extension, but when that experiment failed these were used on its remaining network of lines that radiated from Chicago out to the Twin Cities, Kansas City and Mason City in Iowa. The #29 was no exception.

The 1980s after the reorganization were especially fun times for the Milwaukee Road just before it was bought up by the Soo Line. The MILW kept its second main track in places especially within Savanna and east until a point just west of Mount Carroll, and around Adeline, Davis Junction and between Genoa and New Lebanon. It sure was busier for the Milwaukee Road than in today's era with Canadian Pacific running the show with its up to 12 trains daily and more during the fall shipping rush.

I miss the Milwaukee - memories of orange and black SD40-2's on the northern mainline in S. Dakota

shame what they did to the GM&O .

You have got to be kidding me! A BNSF train on Salina Street in Dubuque, Iowa? That was odd. There are three units and only one car.

This Milwaukee Road scene brings back memories! I use to be a brakeman and then later a locomotive engineer, on occasion (mostly worked yard service, now retired), over this line when it was the Soo Line. An underpowered train always risked stalling out around here and having to double the train at "red barn" siding (held around 20 cars) further up the hill. Once in 1996 I had a new Canadian Pacific GE AC 4400 followed by an older SD40 in my consist heading over these same tracks. I warned the dispatcher by radio our train was over tonnage for the climb east. He responded "well, we'll have to do the best we can." Darned if that new GE and EMD just walked that train up this hill never dropping below 15 mph! Thanks for sharing!

Great video!

Nice catch!