David P. Morgan’s Milwaukee
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2025
- In a program centered around the late 1940s through the early 1960s, we take a tour of the Milwaukee area as famed Trains Magazine Editor David P. Morgan might have experienced it, from the early days of his career as a junior staff member to his prime years as editor-in-chief. We'll start at Morgan's place of employment - the celebrated Kalmbach building at 1027 N. Seventh Street - and work our way around town, witnessing freight and passenger action on the Milwaukee Road, the North Shore Line, the Chicago & North Western, as well as some operations of the Milwaukee Electric. The presentation will include images from a number of iconic Milwaukee photographers of the era, including Wallace W. Abbey, Jim Scribbins, and W.A. Akin, Jr., as well as some often bittersweet before-and-after comparisons. It's easy to see why Morgan, a Southerner by birth, fell in love with the city where he spent most of his life.
Kevin Keefe recently retired as vice-president-editorial for Kalmbach Publishing Co. and board member of the CRP&A. He served as editor of Trains from 1992 to 2000. As a student at Michigan State, he worked on Pere Marquette steam locomotive no. 1225, and he later authored a book about it.
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Kevin did a great job on a wonderful presentation. Thank you all.
Great video!
Just Wonderful….Thank you…
Great, takes me back to my youth when I rode the CNW from Chicago to Sheboygan every summer starting when I was 5 years old. My uncle was an engineer on the CNW, ran from Milwaukee to Green Bay, he retired in 1953, perhaps one of those pictures might be his train.
Wonderful memories! Thank you for sharing them.
Fantastic video!
I've got a slight addiction, obsession, with the Milwaukee Road, which started with the book Milwaukee Road by Mr. Hyde, now I've got almost 80 books etc., and counting about or by the railroad, plus the company magazine for 1969, the year I was born, I've got a beautiful manual for their FT diesels, a bucket and a railroad lantern from when they still were Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, which is in great condition....
I don't know how many times, I've wished that they were still around today....that resourceful railroad! 🥺😥
Looking forward to see more of your videos, keep up with the phenomenal work! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻
A Swede living Glasgow, Scotland....
Thank you! We sure miss the Milwaukee Road, too, and feel fortunate to have so many outstanding photographs of it in our archives.
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One can never get enough of the Milwaukee Road, that's for sure! 😁👍🏻
Great shot of the Milwaukee shops. Visited the communication shop as well as the signal shop. One time I went thru a newer style beaver tail that was parked. Fantastic car.
Enjoyed the video! I believe 1965 was the last year for the electric buses. Also, if the C&NWHS still has them, Dave Cramer converted hundreds of my slides of the Valley and Shore lines into CD-ROMs. Available through them or direct from Dave in Madison.
Great stuff! Thanks for doing this.
Interesting tour of a fascinating then (and inevitably less fascinating now) town that I never made it to other than through the myopic lens of Happy Days. Some lovely pictiures there. Nice idea to tie it back to DPM too.
Great Video! My dad grew up in Perry Iowa which was I believe a division headquarters for the Milwaukee. His father and uncle were both engineers for the line. He finished High School in 1945 and assumed he would get drafted, but that did not happen until Jan. 1946. So he went to work for the Milwaukee as a fireman in between. 18 months in the Army then Iowa State University to become a Mechanical Engineer. Back to the Milwaukee in 1951. By late 1952 he was a train master in Milwaukee with an office possibly in the Milwaukee Depot. In late 1953 he left the Milwaukee and joined then Wisconsin Electric where he stayed until retiring in 1993. Trains were always a big part of his life and some of that rubbed off on me (also an ME from Iowa State and a career in electric power generation). He took us on a ride on the North Shore just before it ceased operation. I remember being able to stand in the very front of the train and have the same view as the operator. His employment took us to Detroit for the latter half of 1950s. Back to Milwaukee area in 1962 and new house in Elm Grove. At that time the Milwaukee ran a commuter from Watertown (I think) to the downtown depot that stopped in Elm Grove. Since his new office was the Public Service building, literally next door to the station, he used the train for several years. He was a long time subscriber to Trains and I have lots of books, DVDs and VHS tapes on trains that I kept when he passed in 2014. Thanks for the great work.
Another great history pictures and video with those involved. Thanks again!
Also any photos of interior of everett station 9r exterior?
We have lots of the exterior in our collections; not sure about the interior. See our reply to your other comment for more infomration.
When did Soo line use Duplainville to get to Milwaukee what year or decade
After the Milwaukee Road merger. 1986 the connection was installed.
You mention several times about the city sewage works. Is that the home of the sewage that made Milwaukee famous? As a youth I unloaded boxcars of milorganite in 50 lb bags, for a local dealer in New Jersey. The Lackawanna had a siding in South Orange where we transloaded to a truck. Had to move it all again when we got to the warehouse. Milorganite also appears in the movie Caddyshack lol
Yes. MIL-waukee ORGA-nic NITE-rogen. They added an E to make it seem like a real word. They had a naming contest for their "new" fertilizer product. I'd have to do more research on what the "winner" received.
I would have replied sooner, but I just found out about this video.
Is there anyway to get copies of the milwaukee photos?
Most of the images come from the David P. Morgan Library of Trains Magazine at Kalmbach Media in Waukesha, Wisconsin. You'd need to get in touch with them for permission to use them. Photographs by John Gruber and Wallace W. Abbey are in our collections at the Center; you can arrange to use them by getting in touch with our reference archivist; go to the Collections page of our website and then click on the "Image Usage and Research" tab for more information: railphoto-art.org/collections/