RARE short Amtrak Lake Country Limited B32-8W and WC Freight train!
Grayslake Jct. is located south of Grayslake, IL, and is where Metra's ex-Milwaukee Rd. "J" Line to Fox Lake crossed the Wisconsin Central. In this early morning ...
@AMTK24 Both trains were started with the same program of "expanding"
Amtrak's service, although it was to promote more mail and freight
business. The Kentucky Cardinal outlasted the Lake Country by two years.
JG Moellendorf's Crandon Neva and Wausau passenger train.AVI
This is my dad's private roadname passenger train running on the Southern Wisconsin SandHouse Crew club layout. Many thanks to Bob Welke for inviting us.
SP 4449 Oak Creek, WI Aug. 2nd, 2009
The action starts about a minute in, be patient. A friend who was on the train tells me they were doing 70 at the time (and actually breaking the Amtrak speed limit ...
CP Rail Eastbound Freight
MILWAUKEE ROAD HIAWATHAS IN 1938
From 1938, here are two short 16mm film segments of the Milwaukee Road Hiawathas on the west side of Milwaukee. Original film footage by Tom Koeferl.
Pretty good-sized train for that 4-4-2! Bet that was some-thing to see! I
recall something about speed restriction signs on the Milwaukee that read
"Reduce speed to 90" !! Not sure if it was this particular line or not
tho.