Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Logo.
Date: Pre-1980.
Author: Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul, and Pacific Railroad.
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A Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Locomotive.
Fairbanks Morse and Company was an American manufacturing company
in the Late-19th-Century and Early-20th-Century. In December 1945, Fairbanks Morse
and Company produced its first streamlined, cab-equipped, dual service, diesel locomotive.
Illustration: PINTEREST
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The Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, often referred to as "The Milwaukee Road" was a Class I Railroad that operated in the Mid-West and North-West of The United States from 1847 until 1980. The Company went through several official names and faced bankruptcy on multiple occasions throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, in 1980, it abandoned its Pacific Extension (Montana, Idaho, and Washington) as a cost-cutting measure following a 1977 bankruptcy.
"Milwaukee Road: A Railroad At Work".
1946 Film.
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What remained of the system operated for another six years until it merged into The Soo Line Railroad, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway, on 1 January 1986. Although "The Milwaukee Road", as such, ceased to exist, much of its Railroad Track continues to be used by multiple Railroads. It is also commemorated in buildings, like the historic Milwaukee Road Depot, in Minneapolis, and in Railroad hardware still maintained by Railroad fans, such as The Milwaukee Road 261 Steam Locomotive.
