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By:Chuck Zeiler
Dates:11/1/1963 - 12/31/1987
Album Info:Photos of the Milwaukee Road in and around the Chicago, Illinois area between 1965 and 1987.
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MILW XL 2113
Title:  MILW XL 2113
Description:  MILW XL 2113 in BN's Cicero, Illinois yard on an unknowo day in October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. According to the October 1971 issue of the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER), this car is one of 49 cars in to 2100-2149 number series, 50' 5" inside length (54' 11" outside), 9' 2" inside width (10' 8" extreme width), 10' 6" inside height (15' 1" extreme height), 9' wide, 9'10" high door, 4860 cubic foot capacity. There are two notes about the cars in this number series: Note K states, "Cars in these series have specially equipped interiors and are not suitable for general service." Note NN indicates that this car (among others listed), "is equipped with fork lift truck pallets, platforms or skids which will be considered part of the car." It appears to have acquired a replacement door during a shopping.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 4/25/2009 11:05:36 AM
Location:  Cicero, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard
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MILW SD40-2 206
Title:  MILW SD40-2 206
Description:  Milwaukee Road SD40-2 20 at Bensenville, Illinois on April 26, 1987, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  4/26/1987  Upload Date: 1/16/2017 2:22:23 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Station
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MILW 2843
Title:  MILW 2843
Description:  Milwaukee Road 2843 at Poynette, Wisconsin on July 4, 1985, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/4/1985  Upload Date: 12/15/2013 12:58:36 PM
Location:  Poynette, WI
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard
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MILW RBL 2934
Title:  MILW RBL 2934
Description:  Milwaukee Road RBL 2934 at Poynette, Wisconsin on July 4, 1985, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to the October 1971 edition of the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) the Milwaukee Road had several groups of RBL's, this one falls into the series 2815-2944, 121 cars, 50'1" inside length9'10" inside height, either a 9'3" or 8'2" inside width (it wasn't clear why there's a variable width, but there were several notes), was equipped with movable bulkheads, rub rails or retractable side fillers, 10'6" wide by 9'4" high door, 4291 cubic foot, 138,000 pound capacity. It is stencilled: NEW 3-64 and WHEN EMPTY RETURN TO BRC ARGO ILL.
Photo Date:  7/4/1985  Upload Date: 5/20/2009 5:09:06 PM
Location:  Poynette, WI
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
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MILW X5001
Title:  MILW X5001
Description:  MILW X5001 at Bensenville, Illinois on February 9, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Here's what I have so far. The X5001 was a former Milwaukee Road drovers car and was one of a group of 15 original cars. These steel cupola cabooses were built by the Milwaukee in 1929 and were their first steel cabooses. The X5001 was originally built as the MILW 01612 but later became an instruction car, then a superintendent's office and was renumbered MILW X5001 somewhere along the way. When the SOO Line assumed control of the Milwaukee Road in 1986 the car retained the X5001 number, and was painted in SOO's candy apple red. This may be one of the only cars in the group to ride on express reefer style trucks. This caboose is now part of the collection at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. Another source suggests this may have been a dynomometer car. It does have a wire run to the second journal from the far end. Although the rest of the journal box covers are missing, they are no longer necessary as it is equipped with roller bearings. For the record, it appears that MILW X5000 was a dynamometer car and the X5002 was an instruction car.

This photo was used in a soft-cover book entitled Caboose Country put out by the NMRA in 1995, by the staff at Kalmbach Memorial Library, and here is their caption: The Chicago Milwaukee Saint Paul & Pacific (Milwaukee Road) riveted-steel caboose seen here in 1986 started life as a drover caboose in the late 1920's. Drovers functioned as both cabooses and as a rolling home for cowhands accompanying their 'doggies' to market. This one originally had six pull-down bunks. Later a kitchenette and swiveling parlor car chairs were added, transforming it into a 'business car'. The box near the cupola houses a water tank for the kitchen. This caboose boasts air conditioning as well as underdeck lights to view the track.

Photo Date:  2/9/1986  Upload Date: 4/20/2009 6:55:29 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard
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MILW Instruction Car X5002
Title:  MILW Instruction Car X5002
Description:  Milwaukee Road Instruction Car X5002 in the coach yard at Grand and California Avenues in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1981, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. As best I can figure out, this car was built around 1952 as a 14 ection sleeper named Cannon Falls and numbered 5772. Around 1956 it was converted to a 52 seat coach and renumbered 552. Around 1971 it was converted to a 40 seat coach and renumbered 651. I don't have a date for conversion to Instruction car. If anyone knows more, please leave a comment. Source: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1098900
Photo Date:  8/1/1981  Upload Date: 8/26/2016 1:09:35 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW 4-6-2 6335
Title:  MILW 4-6-2 6335
Description:  Milwaukee Road 4-6-2 6335, date, location, and photographer unknown, print from Heier Industrial Photo, Chuck Zeiler collection. I guessed at the location based on the Schlitz signage. I purchased this print on one of the CB&Q steam fan trips from Greg Heier. If anyone has any further information, please leave a comment. Number 6335 was built by Alco-Brooks in June 1912 as CM&StP 1557 (c/n 51333), renumbered in September 1912 to 6335 class F-5, became CMStP&P 6335 in 1927, renumbered to CMStPP&P 818 in September 1938, retired in April 1952.
Photo Date:  6/1/1935  Upload Date: 11/10/2013 10:51:03 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  unknown
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  MILW 6335(4-6-2)
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MILW XM 39426
Title:  MILW XM 39426
Description:  Milwaukee Road XM 39426 on the BN at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in April 1981, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to the October 1971 issue of the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER), this car was one of 70 cars in the 39400-39474 number series, 40'6" inside length (44'4" outside), 9'2" inside width (10'8" extreme width), 10'6" inside height (15' extreme height), 4014 cubic foot capacity, 7' door opening.
Photo Date:  4/1/1981  Upload Date: 4/25/2009 1:06:50 PM
Location:  Cicero, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW 53295
Title:  MILW 53295
Description:  Milwaukee Road 53295 at a golf course near Lincolnshire, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1975, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was serving as a covered bridge on a golf course.
Photo Date:  7/1/1975  Upload Date: 11/4/2013 10:33:09 AM
Location:  Lincolnshire, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW X900295
Title:  MILW X900295
Description:  MILW X900295 at Bensenville, Illinois on an unknown day in February 1982, photo by Chuck Zeiler. This would appear to be a homemade flanger built out of a steam locomotive tender.
Photo Date:  2/1/1982  Upload Date: 4/19/2009 10:12:16 AM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard
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MILW X918044
Title:  MILW X918044
Description:  Milwaukee Road X918044 at Bensenville, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1979, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 10/22/2016 3:21:36 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW X922294
Title:  MILW X922294
Description:  Milwaukee Road X922294 at Bensenville, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 3/17/2018 1:38:40 AM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW 991945
Title:  MILW 991945
Description:  MILW 991945 at Franklin Park, Illinois on December 18, 1983, Kodachrome by Gib Allbach, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Photo Date:  12/18/1983  Upload Date: 4/18/2009 4:27:57 PM
Location:  Franklin Park, IL
Author:  Gib Allbach
Categories:  Yard
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MILW 991967
Title:  MILW 991967
Description:  MILW 991967, Bensenville, Illinois, September 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. The truck design was borrowed from the Milwaukee Road's Passenger Department (first appearing on combines built in 1934), as were the ribbed sides. The ribs added strength without adding weight. The Milwaukee Road constucted its first welded steel, bay-window cabooses in 1939, and would eventually built 315 of these through 1951.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 4/18/2009 3:07:20 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW 991979
Title:  MILW 991979
Description:  MILW 991979, Western Evenue, Chicago, Illinois, April 1982, photo by Chuck Zeiler. The Milwaukee Road is generally credited with inventing the bay window caboose. This one apparently survives today at Clinton, Iowa,%three miles north of town on Highway 67.
Photo Date:  4/1/1982  Upload Date: 4/18/2009 1:59:54 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Caboose 992064
Title:  MILW Caboose 992064
Description:  Milwaukee Road caboose 992064 arriving at Brensenville, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 10/6/2017 7:00:55 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Caboose 992075
Title:  MILW Caboose 992075
Description:  Milwaukee Road caboose 992075 at Bensenville, llinois on October 21, 1985, Kodachrome by Gib Allbach, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Photo Date:  10/21/1985  Upload Date: 8/19/2017 11:06:22 AM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Gib Allbach
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Caboose 992101
Title:  MILW Caboose 992101
Description:  Milwaukee Road caboose 992101 at Bensenville, llinois on June 10, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  6/10/1984  Upload Date: 10/28/2017 7:37:09 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Caboose 992109
Title:  MILW Caboose 992109
Description:  Milwaukee Road caboose 992109 ( with 992124 ahead ) at Davis Junctioh, Illinois on January 15, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  1/15/1986  Upload Date: 3/8/2017 4:40:02 PM
Location:  Davis Junction, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Caboose 992124
Title:  MILW Caboose 992124
Description:  Milwaukee Road caboose 992124 ( with 992109 trailing ) at Rockford, Illinois on January 15, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  1/15/1986  Upload Date: 3/8/2017 3:44:32 PM
Location:  Rockford, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW 992134
Title:  MILW 992134
Description:  Milwaukee Road caboose 992134 at Bensenville, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Anyone know what the apparatus on the roof was for?
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/22/2016 4:39:55 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 1
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 1
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 1
Photo Date:  4/1/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:05:44 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 2
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 2
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 2
Photo Date:  4/2/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:09:43 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 3
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 3
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 3
Photo Date:  4/3/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:12:20 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 4
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 4
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 4
Photo Date:  4/4/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:16:31 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 5
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 5
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 5
Photo Date:  4/5/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:18:24 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 6
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 6
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 6
Photo Date:  4/6/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:19:48 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 7
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 7
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 7
Photo Date:  4/7/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:21:15 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 8
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 8
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 1
Photo Date:  4/8/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:22:39 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 9
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 9
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 9
Photo Date:  4/9/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:24:09 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 10
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 10
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 10
Photo Date:  4/10/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:27:53 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 page 11
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 page 11
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 11
Photo Date:  4/11/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:29:21 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 page 12
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 page 12
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 12
Photo Date:  4/12/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:31:10 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 page 13
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 page 13
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 13
Photo Date:  4/13/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:33:11 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 page 14
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 page 14
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 14
Photo Date:  4/14/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:34:52 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 Page 15
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 Page 15
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 15
Photo Date:  4/15/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:36:34 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 page 16
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 page 16
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 16
Photo Date:  4/16/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:38:17 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 page 17
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 page 17
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 17
Photo Date:  4/17/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:39:58 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 page 18
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 page 18
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 18
Photo Date:  4/18/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:41:25 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Timetable 14 page 19
Title:  MILW Timetable 14 page 19
Description:  Milwaukee Road Joint Timetable 14 effective April 24, 1966 page 19
Photo Date:  4/19/1966  Upload Date: 11/2/2011 2:42:57 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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MILW Clearance Form A
Title:  MILW Clearance Form A
Description:  Milwaukee Road Clearance Form A issued at Laredo, Missouri on August 28, 1965, scan by Chuck Zeiler. This is a scan of a standard Milwaukee Road Clearance Form A. I recall picking this up off the ground in Ottumwa, Iowa. Rick Morgan offered a comment that Laredo is located in Missouri, so that's the location indicated.
Photo Date:  8/28/1965  Upload Date: 5/14/2009 6:04:33 PM
Location:  Laredo, MO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Action
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MILW Train Order 213
Title:  MILW Train Order 213
Description:  Milwaukee Road Train Order 213, issued at Laredo Missouri, August 28, 1965, scan by Chuck Zeiler. This is Train Order 213 issued to C&E (Conductor & Engineer) of Train 64. I recall picking these orders up off the ground in Ottumwa, Iowa.
Photo Date:  8/28/1965  Upload Date: 5/14/2009 6:23:45 PM
Location:  Laredo, MO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Action
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MILW Train Order 606
Title:  MILW Train Order 606
Description:  MILW Train Order 606, issued at Laredo, Missouri, August 28, 1965, scan by Chuck Zeiler. This is Milwaukee Road Train Order 606 on Form 19. It appears to be a slow order and had been issued roughly a week earlier. It was attached to a Clearance Form A and another train order that I picked up off the ground at Ottumwa, Iowa that were issued to Train 67.
Photo Date:  8/20/1965  Upload Date: 5/14/2009 6:42:42 PM
Location:  Laredo, MO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Action
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