Milwaukee Road Volumes I-III
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- Milwaukee Road Volumes I-III (Combo DVD video)
Experience The Milwaukee Road of the early 1970s as Pentrex takes you on a three-volume video adventure along the Rocky Mountain Division! Explore the entire electrified Milwaukee Road line from Harlowton, Montana to Avery, Idaho in this exciting three-volume combo DVD. Extraordinary films taken by Ed Stimpson have been carefully selected and computer enhanced, and combined with incredible stereo sound recorded on the Milwaukee Road by Don Hunter. Pentrex has painstakingly researched the Milwaukee's electrics in order to bring you the most accurate, factual video ever produced on these marvelous machines. It's some of the most dynamic railroading in the United States!
Volume I: Electric Power on the Milwaukee Road - Alberton, Avery and the St. Paul Pass
Pentrex begins its incredible vintage series on the popular Milwaukee Road and its fascinating electric motive power with a look at Boxcabs and Little Joes hard at work on the Rocky Mountain Division in Alberton, Montana and from Avery, Idaho through the St. Paul Pass. Highlights of this 1972 footage include a profile of the impressive General Electric-built Boxcab motors which entered service in 1915, and the gutsy Little Joes which joined the roster in 1950.
We'll see both of these powerful and efficient motors in action hauling freight up the 1.7 percent grades on the breathtaking St. Paul Pass, sailing across the majestic trestles, diving into tunnels, and working in the yards at Alberton and Avery. This was the Milwaukee Road at its best, just prior to the end of electrification in June of 1974. (47 Minutes)
Volume II: Harlowton to Butte
Pentrex continues its trilogy of films about the Milwaukee Road's electrified Rocky Mountain Division with a detailed tour of the eastern portion of the route. The line from Harlowton to Butte, Montana saw plenty of action during the 1970s. There are thrilling scenes of electric power hard at work hauling freight over the area's challenging grades.
We begin our journey with a look at the non-electrified line that ran from Harlowton to Lewistown, Montana to view the diesel powered action on the Rocky Mountain Division. the yards at Harlowton linked the electrified division with the non-electrified line to the east and you'll visit the yards to catch the action there.
Highlights of our tour include a look at Vendome Loop and a ride in the cab of a Little Joe on the way from magnificent Pipestone Pass to Butte. The Little Joes and Boxcabs that once conquered these awesome grades represented electric power at its finest. The drama of machines battling spectacular terrain is vividly portrayed in this exciting tribute to the mighty Milwaukee Road. (41 Minutes)
Volume III: The Rocky Mountain Division
Pentrex takes you on a journey of exploration along the Milwaukee Road's electrified Rocky Mountain Division in 1973. This historic footage was shot just months before electrified service was replaced by diesel power. It covers the entire 440-mile route from Harlowton, Montana to Avery, Idaho.
You'll get a close look at the mighty Boxcabs and gutsy Little Joes that pulled freight across this beautiful territory, braving steep grades and spanning awesome gorges. Then you'll follow a work train and its crew for several days as it repairs track and replaces rail. Highlights of our adventure include a trip to the busy Lombard area, where Milwaukee track crossed the Burlington Northern.
From mountain prairies to steep, tree covered peaks, the Rocky Mountain Division was indeed a breathtaking sight, and now the spectacular scenery and nonstop Milwaukee Road action is available for your viewing pleasure! (78 Minutes)
best 40 bucks ive ever spent on this dvd series. its amazing that you can drive down a deserted dirt road that use to be a transcontinental railroad and now almost all of it is gone. long live the milwaukee road!
My Favorite Railroad Milwaukee Road
Wow.
I grew up in Harlowton in the 70's my father was a switchman for the Milwaukee. I remember folling my father throught the yards in Harlowton, I crossed that bridge several time with my father going to the roundhouse. Some of it is still there in Harlow, but a lot is gone. How cool to visit it again.....Those were the days.
As a kid i remember this line in the mountains while on holidays, it was great! Speeders would follow the Trains looking for fires, it was still old time railroading, "and it was Great"!!
The death of cool railroads saddens me. I was in Montana a couple years ago and you can still see the old embankments and the museum at Harlowton. Wish I was around to have experienced it back in its hay day.
I Already Have This On DVD!
I have that on DVD myself. Bought it at a rail festival last year.
Milwaukee Road is such a unique railroad being it was electrified. Always my favorite. I too wish the western division could have rails reload from Seattle for container freight. Wich is highly prifitable
HOW CAN SOMEONE DISSLIKE THIS????
Now I find steam locomotives and electric locomotives like the little joe. Are fascinating.
I own the 3 volume set shown here. The final segment shows relics and remains of locations in the set decades after abandonment. Definitely worth the cost as many scenes are very obscure.
Looks like an awesome series. I biked the Hiawatha in Idaho last September. Wish I had a time machine to see this line in it's prime, but this will do for now!
Man,I miss the MILW. It was already gone when I was born, but as a kid I would still see their engines run through town pulling SOO Line trains. I still see the old orange and black SOO bandidt scheme on GP38-2 switchers in the West Milwaukee CP yard from time to time. The electric stuff is interesting and all, but I wish Pentrex would make a film about Milwaukee's diesel freight operations in the midwest.
What a great railroad it was..
it looks so funny to have seen the diesel cabs with the overhead electric...here in the east its either one or another. I can see how you miss those old milwaukee locs.
Here's why they ran diesels with electrics: There was a 300 mile gap in the electrified sections between Avery, ID and Othello, WA. The other reason as stated in this trailer, when this film was shot in 1974, electrification was at it's end and only a few electrics remained available for service. The box cabs were tired 60+ year old beasts. The electrical system was outdated and needed costly capital replacement. GE had a plan for new equip & locos, but Milw couldn't afford it...
A dream could be if you Rebuilt some parts of the Rocky Mountain division, electrified it and moved all milwaukee road equipment that´s left there (like the joe, the two boxcab halves, the bi-polar, the 261 locomotive and some hiawatha cars) and you could once again take the hiawatha ower the "rockies":-)
Hugo Kulas good idea and if I were you I would have made it as 25kv to have ACS-64s by simply piggybacking on SEPTA order to operate on that line do to them having slightly stronger power than a 3kv dc locomotive like the famous little Joe locomotives
My bf remembers when the milwaukee road Ran Through western wis
Go on Google Earth and take a trip over the abandoned Milwaukee. The old main line is surprisingly easy to find except in Tacoma.
Check out those "Little Joes". Too bad the Milwaukee Road is now a fallen flag. R.I.P. CMStP&PRR
@CascadeRail - Take a visit to the Cascade Rail Foundation in the South Cle Elum Depot.
Too bad it's all gone now.
Not sure what you are referring to..... but this film is based in Montana & Idaho, not Washington state.... some of the power for the system was generated from local hydropower dams, but most were from motor generator stations along the route.
You can see Diesel looking Electrics in South America (Chile). They look US made. After all, a Diesel-Electric is an Electric loco with it's own power plant.
EMD & GE exported a lot of diesels to South America and all over the world.. They could very well be from the US.
The Milwaukee Road should be Brought Back. Both Electrified sections restored, and both electric sections connected, and if possible, the Milwaukee Electric Grid should be connected to the other electric lines of the USA to create the first transcontinental Electric Line.
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Hydro? Grande Coulée Dam on the Columbia River?
One of the obstacles to electric traction in the US is the fact electrified railways pay more property tax than non electrified railways. After electric traction ended, Milwaukee's maintenance costs doubled and alas the railway is no more. Railways ought to get tax exemptions/breaks for this addition of value. Banks' involvment with the rail business stifles investment. They see it as a cost, not added value, an asset and long term cash saver.
Sounds like a bloody good rail adventure you had in Russia: I'm sure I'd love Russian Railways sure as I would love travelling across practically uninhabited areas of the USA on the electrified Milwaukee Road.
Which part? The mountainous routes or the Little Joe electrics originally built for the Soviet Union?
The Milwaukee Road should've merged with Rock Island to compete with BN.
I love the what if's. There was a plan put forth by Ben Heineman of the North Western to merge the Milwaukee, the North Western and the Rock Island in the mid sixties. The RI-UP merger plan kept that from happening. The Milwaukee and the North Western came within inches of merger. Pulling the Rock Island in was doable. Heineman was a sharp businessman. He could have pulled it off. It would have been a cool railroad and would have made money.
Wouldn't it be nice though, to see heavy freight moved by electric traction in the US: Powered by 100% US sourced energy: Coal, Hydro, Wind, and possibly solar! I'm English not American, but would love to see energy security like this not just in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but in the USA, too! It's not perverse, but patriotic! I just want to see a stable world: Don't all sane compassionate civilised and good people want this?