#cmstp&p

[railwayhistorical]

Fifty Years Ago... The F-units of Latta Yard

Back in the 1970s, there was a little set of F-units, one being a slug, that seemed to be based at Latta Yard in Jasonville, Indiana. This is along the Milwaukee Road’s Southeastern line.

We would venture over to do night shots every so often, and this one hosted a nearly-full moon. The times were very different then—with rail photographers being able to crawl all over the units, inside and out.

Three images by Richard Koenig; taken July 9th 1976.

[aryburn-trains]

CMStP&P 127 on train #18 Marquette at Watertown, WI August, 1950

[20th-century-railroading]

CMStP&P train, engine number 4, engine type 4-4-2 Passenger; 7 cars. Photographed: south of Deerfield, Ill., June 21, 1946.

[zponds]

12 days, I made a post going over my OCs from the Chicago & Northwestern. Now this post will go over my OCs from…

Now these engines in the Milwaukee Road heritage fleet are under ownership of Soo Line, BNSF and Union Pacific, and these engines are only found…

on railroad territories there were once owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), which was more commonly known as The Milwaukee Road. And these OC engines from the “Route of the Hiawatha’s” are…

Mike, the 4-4-2 Class A #2 and first Twin Cites Hiawatha engine

Otto, the 4-4-2 Class A #3 and first Midwest Hiawatha engine

Stevenson, the 4-6-4 Class F7 #100 and second Twin Cities Hiawatha engine

Penny, the 4-6-4 Class F7 #102 and second Midwest Hiawatha engine

Gaston, the streamlined 4-6-0 class G #10 and North Woods Hiawatha engine

Whitsun, the streamlined 4-6-0 class G #11 and second North Woods Hiawatha engine

Hubbard, the streamlined 4-6-2 class F3 #151 and first Chippewa Hiawatha engine

Cassie, the streamlined 4-6-2 class F3 #152 and second Chippewa Hiawatha engine

Courtney, the 2-8-2 class L2 #361

Maxie, the 4-8-4 class S3 #261

Olympus, the FM Erie-built #6 and first Olympian Hiawatha engine

Zeus, the FM Erie-built #5 and second Olympian Hiawatha engine

Reanne, the EMD F7 #60a

Amanda, the EMD F7 #80a

Grant, the EMD F7 #109a

James, the EMD F7 #69a

Cal, the EMD GP40 #2026

Arthur, the EMD GP40 #2057

Mindy, the EMD GP40 #2035

Norman, the EMD GP40 #2006

[acarefullycuratedmess]

Crew Change,

Marmarth, North Dakota

1974

[marmarinou]

Rainy day in Bensenville by Mike Danneman Via Flickr: “On a wet November 23, 1986, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 193 sits near the sand towers at the locomotive facility at the sprawling yard in Bensenville, Illinois. Access off Green Street, on the left, was so easy back then. Now there’s nothing much left here to see.”

Photo by Mike Danneman

[milwaukeeroad]

Dropping into Monroe Center, IL by Lance Via Flickr: In a scene that has hardly changed at all since this view more than 25 years ago, a westbound Milwaukee Road freight heads toward Savanna as it rolls down the hill toward the Mulford Road grade crossing on the east side of Monroe Center, IL. MILW 170 leads the way from the Spring of 1983.

[railwayhistorical]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

A view of Milwaukee, forty-five and a half years ago; seen from the North 25th Street overpass. One image by Richard Koenig; taken August of 1979.