The Complete Electrified Milwaukee Road
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| Producer | Sunday River Productions |
|---|---|
| Narration | Yes |
| Run Time | 39 minutes |
| Technical Details | Region Code 1, USA and Canada |
Watch electric led trains crossing almost every one of the great trestles on the Rocky Mountain and Coast Divisions including helicopter coverage of six hidden in the dense forests of the West slope of Snoqualmie. Plus view trains crossing the immense bridges across the Clark Fork and the great Gorge of the Columbia. Fabulous color footage shows trains crossing the Rockies on Pipestone Pass, the Bitterroots on St Paul Pass, the Saddle Mountains of Eastern Washington and finally, Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascades.
See steeple cab switchers, Little Joes, G.E. Boxcabs galore and a yard full of Bipolars (not underway) and diesel operations in the Cascade. Plus, see trains in all the great canyons: The Jefferson River, the St. Joe, the Clark Fork, Yakima, Snoqualmie, the Grand Daddy of all, The Columbia! Includes the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific RR. Painstakingly accurate record of an engineering marvel created by the most innovative railroad in America – a railroad now vanished forever.
Narration. Sunday River Productions programs may feature Color film, B&W film, Music, Dubbed Sound and still photos.
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This program covers early electric & diesel action from the Little Joes, Steeple Center Cab Switchers, Boxcabs, & Bi-Polars to F-units, GP9s, U-Boats, an F40, & SD40-2s in Northern America at locations like Chicago Union Station, La Crosse with a semaphore signal & a Griswold crossing, the Mississippi River Bridge, St. Paul Union Station, LV Depot in Minneapolis, the Jefferson River Canyon line, Vendome Loop on Pipestone Pass, Donald, the Continental divide on the Pipestone Pass Tunnel, Butte Yard, Deer Lodge, Kelly Creek Trestle, Avery Idaho, Clear Creek Trestle, Brushy Creek Trestle, Saltese Viaduct, Haugun Yard, St. Regis bridge, alongside the Clark Fork River, Black Tail Viaduct, the Columbia River bridge at Beverly, Renslow Trestle, Kittitas station, along the Yakima River, Lake Keechelus, Puyallup Washington, Tacoma’s Tide Flat Yard, Street Running at Renton, Change Creek Bridge, Hull Creek Bridge, Mine Creek Bridge, Cedar Falls, Hansen Trestle, Snoqualmie Tunnel, & ends at Hyak.
There are other road names like the South Shore with their Little Joes & Boxcabs, the Butte Anaconda & Pacific (filmed by Mac Owen) which ran for 35 miles only & was well known for showing in the 1985 movie: Runaway Train, & Union Pacific.
Near the end of the show, there is some Helicopter angles from the sky.
The paint scheme in the postwar years for passenger trains on the Milwaukee Road look exactly the same as the Union Pacific. Nowadays, the only surviving Bi-polar type locomotive is at Kirkwood Missouri with Frisco 1522.