Think about working for one of those outfits, the Milwaukee or the Rock Island, west end of the Erie Lackawanna, large parts of the Lehigh Valley or the CNJ, having that feeling somewhere in the back of your mind that you're really screwed yet you keep taking calls.
Many places on the MILW Sumas Branch that have 30-40ft
trees growing where ore trains once passed. Youd never know
the MILW existed in Bellingham Wa anymore. The MILW
roundhouse tracks now have a 6-story condo built on the
site. The MILW Yard is a 3-track yard in asphalt that Amtrak
uses to park its train overnight. The MILW trackage around
the Bellingham waterfront is all gone except for a portion
that became BN Bham track 7. Glad I got to know the MILW
before it was no more. Part of my history lesson.
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If you are in a horror movie, you make bad decisions, its what you do.
Traces of Milwaukee's main line across Washington damn near parallel I-90, and stand out clearly in fields and hillsides heading east. The single track high steel bridge crosses 90 before the ol' main continued east towards Beverly, via the Columbia River crossing...
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Hmm. That address doesnt look right. It looks like the link pointing here was faulty.