| Posted by Sport! on December 30, 2014 | |
I love this shot!
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| Posted by Kibu on March 3, 2015 | |
You have to wonder how things might have been different if the Milwaukee Road had never ceased electric operations.
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| Posted by Bill Edgar on March 3, 2015 | |
It would have been tough as their system was pretty well shot. Much more economical to just buy diesels given their traffic density. Even if they got half of BNSF's traffic, in today's world modern diesel power and interchangeability would have been the way to go. Imagine MILW GEVOs and ACes, I've seen models of both.
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| Posted by Nuc on January 13, 2026 | |
What might have been...
Suppose Milwaukee management wasn't always looking to ditch something they didn't understand. There were proposals and potential financing to close "the gap," rebuild the overhead, acquire new electric locomotives. But that didn't look like any other American railroad. Missed opportunity.
Other examples of mismanagement: the failure to buy all 20 of the Little Joe locomotives, taking down the overhead AFTER the recycled copper price cratered. There were so many destructive decisions, it's a wonder the railroad lasted as long as it did.
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