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Locomotive Cab Ride from Minnesota Falls to Appleton, Minnesota
The video follows a Twin Cities & Western train, from the front window of a GP-20C, on the ex-Milwaukee Road transcontinental line from Minnesota Falls to Appleton in western Minnesota. The trip follows the wooded Minnesota River valley, crosses the BNSF Marshall Subdivision mainline and past the restored Montevideo depot. Continuing west, the route goes through sweeping curves and remnants of the long ripped-up second main are visible. The trip ends crossing the BNSF Watertown Sub mainline in Appleton where target signals remain. The ex-Milwaukee Road stations the line goes through are: Minnesota Falls, Granite Falls, Wegdahl, Montevideo, Watson,Milan and Appleton.
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Railroad Cab Ride from Glencoe to Bird Island, Minnesota
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The video follows a Twin Cities & Western train, through the front window of a GP-20C, on the ex-Milwaukee Road transcontinental mainline from the railroad’s main base in Glencoe to Bird Island in central Minnesota. This is the heart of Minnesota's agricultural land. The ex-Milwaukee Road stations the line goes through are: Glencoe, Brownton, Stewart, Buffalo Lake, Hector and Bird Island.
Davies Steel & Dean Freytag
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Dean Freytag was the person who brought steel mill modeling to a wider audience in the model railroad community. During Dean's career, he traveled through Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and saw the American steel industry at its prime. This was his inspiration for his large HO scale layout "South Ridge Lines" and "Davies Steel" located in Ashland, Ohio. The steel company name "Davies" cam...
Milwaukee Road Diesel Power
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The Milwaukee Road sampled products from almost all of the builders, was an early purchaser of the F-unit and rostered a large stable of them for freight and passenger service, found a favorite diesel in the form of the SD-40-2 and had the unique SDL-39 built for branchline service. The 181 images come from slides, photos, B&W negatives and postcards.
Milwaukee Road Depots & Structures Part 2
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The Milwaukee Road Depots & Structures Part 2 tour starts in Minnesota, moving on to South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington. The 258 images come from slides, photos, negatives and postcards, ranging in age from the late 1800s to 2010. They are grouped by state and arranged alphabetically within the state.
Milwaukee Road Depots & Structures Part 1
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The Milwaukee Road Depots & Structures Part 1 tour starts in Indiana, moving on to Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. The 138 images come from slides, photos, negatives and postcards, ranging in age from the late 1800s to 2010. They are grouped by state and arranged alphabetically within the state.
Chicago & North Western Depots & Structures
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The 313 images come from photos, slides and postcards in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin. Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming. In some instances, there is the original depot and its replacement, as well as the union stations the C&NW used. The structures are grouped by state starting from the east.
LTV Steel
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An LTV Steel-produced video presentation on the company's operations. It starts with iron ore mining and processing in Minnesota, then on the the two steelmaking plants on the lower Great Lakes and concludes with the forming and processing of the final products.
Railroad Cab Ride from Hopkins to Glencoe, Minnesota
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The video follows a Twin Cities & Western train, through the front window of a GP-20C, on the ex-Milwaukee Road transcontinental mainline from the Minneapolis suburb of Hopkins to Glencoe in east-central Minnesota. The trip starts out in suburban backyards, moving on to hilly, wooded scenes to the beginning of the agricultural heart of Minnesota. The ex-Milwaukee Road stations the line goes thr...
Michael Rabbitt Presentation on the book "Blast Furnaces"
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Michael Rabbitt was the "go-to" guy for information on steel mills for the steel mill modeling community. He also produced many steel mill plans in HO scale. The following video is on a clinic he gave at the Railroad Industry Special Interest Group 1997 convention in Ashtabula, Ohio. In it he points out and explains the details in the fantastic photos in the book "Blast Furnaces" by Bernd & Hil...
Akashi Kaikyo Suspension Bridge Pier Construction
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The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is one of the longest suspensions bridges in the world. It spans the Akashi Strait between Kobe on the island of Honshu and Awaji Island in central Japan. The bridge designers faced many challenges such as the sheer span distance of 12,831 feet (3,911 meters) and the current in the strait of about 9 knots (4.5m/sec) at the most severe. The video chronicles the construct...
North American Steel Industry via Postcards Part 2
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An historic tour of the steel industry in North America from the 1860s through the 1960s via postcards. The images are in the form of photographs and paintings. Very few of the subjects in the images still exist in 2024. The tour in Part 2 starts in the United States in the states of Pennsylvania (both the Pittsburgh area and outstate), Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin, an...
North American Steel Industry via Postcards Part 1
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An historic tour of the steel industry in North America from the 1860s through the 1960s via postcards. The images are in the form of photographs and paintings. Very few of the subjects in the images still exist in 2024. The tour in Part 1 starts in the United States in the states of Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Ohio.
Dean Freytag Presentation on Walthers Blast Furnaces
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Dean Freytag, the “Man of Steel” and the “dean” of steel mill modelers, always gave the last presentation on the last evening of Railroad Industry Special Interest Group conventions. His talk was eagerly anticipated because it was fun, entertaining and informative. The subject of this presentation is “Improving a Walthers Blast Furnace” and was given at the 1997 convention in Ashtabula, Ohio.
Mitsubishi "Lineal Tube Forming System" ERW Pipe Rolling Mill
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A presentation on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' "Lineal Tube-Forming System," an ERW pipe rolling mill that takes up half the space of a typical pipe mill installation.
DC Electric Arc Furnace in Steelmaking
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DC Electric Arc Furnace in Steelmaking
Bypassing Portland: Locomotive Cab Ride on Former SP&S Oregon Lines
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Bypassing Portland: Locomotive Cab Ride on Former SP&S Oregon Lines
Chicago & North Western Diesel Power
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Chicago & North Western Diesel Power
Locomotive Cab Ride from St. Louis Park to Savage, Minnesota
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Locomotive Cab Ride from St. Louis Park to Savage, Minnesota
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Steam Power
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Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Steam Power
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Steam Power
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Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Steam Power
Railroad Cab Ride: Saint Louis Park to North Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Railroad Cab Ride: Saint Louis Park to North Minneapolis, Minnesota
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Steam Power
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Steam Power
Amtrak - The Early & Middle Years in the Midwest & West
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Amtrak - The Early & Middle Years in the Midwest & West
Thank you for sharing this video of the former Milwaukee Road. Did the Milwaukee remove the ABS wayside signals, or did the TC&W remove them? Is this track warrant territory?
Lots of people were watching or taking pictures of this train. Makes me wonder why. Was this a special occasion?
Very cool!
Cool to see the railfans the other way. We need some cab rides in HD.
Going to slow
Love this older Minnesotan train footage!
When was this recorded?
April 2001
What was the occasion of a lot of people watching the train go by this day?
Boy, there are sure some pretty long sections of line that used to be double tracked that are now only single track.
@jaydee975, I am sure the pre-1930s Milwaukee Road here, as in other places across the system, was Automatic Block Signaled double track. Track speed was- Passenger - 79, Freight - 60 MPH. During the thirties, Milwaukee Road pulled up what double track it could to make a little money. Building and then ⚡ electrifying ⚡ portions of the Pacific Coast Extension forever put the railroad in the red!
Why they going so slow
I think this a line with a maximum speed of 25 mph or less due to track conditions and such. Many small regional lines have speed limitations of 10-25 mph. It would drive me crazy but it is for safety reasons and requirements of the Federal Railroad Administration.
My Friday delivery routes always ran along side the ex Milwaukee Road from Olivia to Big Bend or Milan. Always my favorite route I used to do 20 years ago.
TCW.... tits, cunts & whistles.
Why so slow is the track that bad.
That would always be a fear of mine wondering why their is headlights coming my way
That car at Cedar Lake would've became a highlight of this video.
watched your CGW some stuff video some great stuff...but i gotta know.....who was the band playing the music? I gotta have that i'm a musician as well as a train lover thx
Pleased the CGW stuff was worth the effort to make a video of it. As for the music, I have no idea who the band is. It was created using software by SmartSounds which permits the user to make music tracks of any length. Love this software. Jeff Borne PrairieWorks
8:00 Dakota Avenue You see those weird-shaped supports the crossing lights are mounted on? Shaped to have an octagonal hole in the middle of them? When they were built, they had a standard stop sign in that hole that rotated to face the road when the crossing was activated and to face the track, invisible to the road, normally. They were common around Minnesota and maybe other places for a few decades. Little bit of trivia.
Very cool, never knew they ran on that route.
I wish TC&W Camden turns were still a thing. Great coverage!
Some of the street labels on this are completely wrong. Just before going over 94. The street is Lyndale Avenue not "Mississippi Drive"