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Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 #208 (S-2) is working freight service as the big Northern steams northbound at Techny, Illinois on a December evening in 1946.
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Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 #208 (S-2) is working freight service as the big Northern steams northbound at Techny, Illinois on a December evening in 1946.
Northbound Milwaukee Road commuter train seen from Tower A-20
Techny (Northbrook), Illinois
May 29, 1970
Photo by Paul Enenbach
(via Northbrook, Illinois, 29MAY'70 | This one was probably not a… | Flickr)
Here’s a bit of an odd piece! It’s a Techny d20, and a rather unusual one at that since it’s translucent and swirly. Techny was a short-lived company that folded when they couldn’t pay their factory, who sold off the unpaid stock to other companies like Gamescience.
One of Brooks Stevens' exotic "Skytop" parlor-lounge-observations brings up the rear of Milwaukee Road's train #5, the w/b "Morning Hiawatha" near Techny, IL circa 1949. The train is about to duck beneath the Chicago & North Western's overpass. A Milwaukee company photo.
“MILW F-units (63A....) lead eastbound freight up the ‘dump track’ from the mainlline at Tower A-20 to the C&NW ‘New LIne’ Sub (in foreground) at ‘Shermer’...I guess that says it all. I didn't find out until about 50 years after taking this pic that the connection between the Milwaukee Road at A-20 and the C&NW at Shermer was known as the ‘Dump Track’."
Northbrook, Illinois
September 5, 1966
Photo by Paul Enenbach
(via Northbrook, Illinois, 5SEP'66 | MILW F-units (63A....) lead … | Flickr)
The Future at A20
Amtrak's two AC units, 450 and 451 have a test car between them on a southbound Hiawatha at Techny back in 1990.
GM&O on the Milwaukee
GM&O E7 103A flies through Techny IL. with the southbound Abe Lincoln in September 1972.
MILW Rd. F7A 109A_Techny, Il by fourhundredfleet on Flickr.
Caption: "Milwaukee Road F7A 109A leads four more F-units uphill to the North Western connection at Shermer with turn-job #126 from Milwaukee at Techny, Illinois, on June 26, 1976."
Photo by Jim Lewnard