Thru small old river towns then Dubuque, beautiful oldest city west of the mississippi, on thru Guttenburg, to Marquette, going thru a few miles in Minnesota and on to Lacrosse Wisc, layover in Lacrosse GOOD TIMES, very fortunate to be able to ride up and down Beautiful Mississippi Valley and get Paid to do it...Thank you for the Video .. mike t
I was a conductor and Brakeman on the Milwaukee Rd in the 1970s and rode up and down the river rails daily some days I would ride thru 4 different states, starting in Savanah Ill crossing the bridge to Sabula Iowa continue along the Mississippi
I know this video is just a couple weeks old(!) but I'm using it to help fill in details on three HOdcale model RR bridges I'm working on. This vantage point is invaluable to a modeler - most of the time we can never get to these places in the track! Your camera work was excellent (some fools wave their camera around like it was a flag!) and well-composed. I enjoyed the natural sounds of steel wheel on steel rail. Even the background talking was not distracting. You've earned my sub, and my deep appreciation for helping me achieve a much higher level of modeling accuracy I would otherwise have missed. Thank you for that! Now I have to catch up on some of your other excellent bridge videos. Ghost of the SP
Man, that must have been a GREAT trip riding the open air platform of the observation car. When I was very young, right after my loving and wonderful mother passed away, my father took me on the Denver, Rio Grande, & Western R.R. through the Rockies and I shot 8mm movies the trip. You trip must have been so wonderful. I am almost 58 now, and I have loved trains (and model ones, too. I miss all the REAL (and original R.R. lines like your Milwaukee Road Line. Thank you so much for sharing such a great ride and seeing the double-stack that you passed. Your photography is just fantastic!!!!! Thank you!!!
charlesrlassiter Glad you enjoyed it. I did not get to stand out on the platform all of the time. I used my tripod and camera on continuous and at times I had to go inside the car for safety reasons when the speeds got high.
That looks like superb looking tracks with nice ballast and ties - something that the Milwaukee Road sadly never had throughout its life as a railroad. Many thanks to the Soo Line and now Canadian Pacific for carrying on the proud tradition of railroading in the stead of the late great Milwaukee Road. 😄
The Milwaukee was a first-class railroad until deferred maintenance became the norm after 1960 or so. After the CP/Soo took over in 1986, the State of WI gave them financial incentive to improve the tracks. CP chose to single-track the main between Pewaukee, WI, and East Hastings, MN between 1988 and 1993. Deep granite ballast, new 136# ribbon rail, and CTC made the ride safer and smoother, but at a significant cost in total capacity. With pending expansion of Amtrak service via Milwaukee to St Paul, there will be some degree of 2nd main restoration in several places, but CP refuses to invest in cspacity improvements on the Soo Line, east of St Paul, unless Amtrak foots all or most of the bill.
As a CPRS (soon to be CPKC) employee, I used to spend a lot of time railfanning at River Junction where the Marquette Sub mainline swings off towards Iowa and Kansas City.
Beautiful engineering, well maintained roadbed and total absence of graffiti on wayside structures on this ex-Milwaukee Road in La Crosse, Wi. This is a good illustration of the ecological superiority and appropriateness of Railways. 2017/07/09.
Thru small old river towns then Dubuque, beautiful oldest city west of the mississippi, on thru Guttenburg, to Marquette, going thru a few miles in Minnesota and on to Lacrosse Wisc, layover in Lacrosse GOOD TIMES, very fortunate to be able to ride up and down Beautiful Mississippi Valley and get Paid to do it...Thank you for the Video .. mike t
Is this a passenger train or a freight train?
Because I heard people
I was a conductor and Brakeman on the Milwaukee Rd in the 1970s and rode up and down the river rails daily some days I would ride thru 4 different states, starting in Savanah Ill crossing the bridge to Sabula Iowa continue along the Mississippi
I know this video is just a couple weeks old(!) but I'm using it to help fill in details on three HOdcale model RR bridges I'm working on. This vantage point is invaluable to a modeler - most of the time we can never get to these places in the track! Your camera work was excellent (some fools wave their camera around like it was a flag!) and well-composed. I enjoyed the natural sounds of steel wheel on steel rail. Even the background talking was not distracting.
You've earned my sub, and my deep appreciation for helping me achieve a much higher level of modeling accuracy I would otherwise have missed. Thank you for that! Now I have to catch up on some of your other excellent bridge videos.
Ghost of the SP
So interesting to see the different bridge segments that comprise this Mississippi River crossing! Great job, railjames; thank you!
Man, that must have been a GREAT trip riding the open air platform of the observation car. When I was very young, right after my loving and wonderful mother passed away, my father took me on the Denver, Rio Grande, & Western R.R. through the Rockies and I shot 8mm movies the trip. You trip must have been so wonderful. I am almost 58 now, and I have loved trains (and model ones, too. I miss all the REAL (and original R.R. lines like your Milwaukee Road Line. Thank you so much for sharing such a great ride and seeing the double-stack that you passed. Your photography is just fantastic!!!!! Thank you!!!
charlesrlassiter Glad you enjoyed it. I did not get to stand out on the platform all of the time. I used my tripod and camera on continuous and at times I had to go inside the car for safety reasons when the speeds got high.
That looks like superb looking tracks with nice ballast and ties - something that the Milwaukee Road sadly never had throughout its life as a railroad. Many thanks to the Soo Line and now Canadian Pacific for carrying on the proud tradition of railroading in the stead of the late great Milwaukee Road. 😄
The Milwaukee was a first-class railroad until deferred maintenance became the norm after 1960 or so. After the CP/Soo took over in 1986, the State of WI gave them financial incentive to improve the tracks. CP chose to single-track the main between Pewaukee, WI, and East Hastings, MN between 1988 and 1993. Deep granite ballast, new 136# ribbon rail, and CTC made the ride safer and smoother, but at a significant cost in total capacity.
With pending expansion of Amtrak service via Milwaukee to St Paul, there will be some degree of 2nd main restoration in several places, but CP refuses to invest in cspacity improvements on the Soo Line, east of St Paul, unless Amtrak foots all or most of the bill.
As a CPRS (soon to be CPKC) employee, I used to spend a lot of time railfanning at River Junction where the Marquette Sub mainline swings off towards Iowa and Kansas City.
Wow that is so cool I hope to ride on that train and see the Mississippi River and more someday
Fun to compare the Mississippi River here at La Crosse with the river at New Orleans, crossing on the Huey P Long.
Beautiful engineering, well maintained roadbed and total absence of graffiti on wayside structures on this ex-Milwaukee Road in La Crosse, Wi.
This is a good illustration of the ecological superiority and appropriateness of Railways. 2017/07/09.
I agree, thanks!
That is quite a bridge
good rail vidio
Do you have any rides from St.Paul to LaCrosse? Very scenic view on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi river.
How are you filming this
Great video. It's a heel trinion movable bridge not a draw bridge.
are the second and third bridge movable."?
The 1st bridge and the 4th bridge are movable
4:07 *metal sound*
Good stuff
What county is it
was that a freight train you were on?
+postalfnj I was a guest on a private railroad car with an open observation platform on the rear.
postalfnj, I was on the rear of a private car, open platform, attached to the back of the Amtrak Empire Builder.
response to howardkevinm - He was eastbound, coming from Minnesota and the Twin Cities, entering into Wisconsin.
The great Euphrates.
it makes you wonder how logustics in the United States is done.