Dec 18, 2022
Milwaukee Road’s Charter Line, Part One of Three
The Milwaukee Road in Wisconsin was originally called the Milwaukee and Waukesha, and then the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad. Late in 1976, I followed a train eastward on the line from Milton or so nearly to Waukesha. I believe the railroad was built through the area in these photographs in 1852 or 1853. I’ll split the images over three posts here.
We begin at the depot in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and then just east of town. After that we see our little train along the line eastward toward Palmyra—at Woodward Road, and then at Wojtkunski Road (I believe). The locomotive is an EMD GP9 built in May of 1959.
Four images by Richard Koenig; taken November 26th 1976.
