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The Milwaukee Road filed for bankruptcy in 1977. They sold their property in Sioux City to a farm machinery salvage company in 1981, and by 1987 it fell into a state of disrepair. [4] The Siouxland Historical Railroad Association acquired the property in 1995 and converted the facility into a museum, incorporating the roundhouse.
Between 1974 and 1977, the Milwaukee Road lost $100 million, and the company filed for its third bankruptcy in 42 years on December 19, 1977. [33] Judge Thomas R. McMillen presided over the bankruptcy until the Milwaukee Road's sale in 1985. The railroad's primary problem was that it possessed too much physical plant for the revenue it generated.
In 1916, the facilities at Harlowton gained international renown when the Milwaukee Road made the depot the eastern endpoint of an electrified section of rail which extended to Avery, Idaho. The electrified section was the longest stretch of electric railroad in the United States; Thomas Edison described the railroad as an "unmatched technical ...
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad roundhouse, Aberdeen, South Dakota; Currently 7 stalls, 22 stalls demolished (foundations visible), turntable demolished. Chicago and North Western Roundhouse , Huron, SD, NRHP-listed, now belonging to Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad ; Once full circle, 15 stalls and the turntable remain.
The museum's grounds include Barretts Tunnel, one of the first railroad tunnels west of the Mississippi River. Among its railroad items are: [3] Aerotrain No. 3; The only surviving Milwaukee Road class EP-2 Bi-Polar Electric. Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4006. The largest steam locomotive of the museum's collection. Norfolk & Western Y6a class 2-8 ...
Railroad Model Road number Notes Image Wisconsin Central Ltd. (Ex - Fox River Valley Railroad) EMD SD24 [11] 2402 (CBQ 510) Ex-CBQ, previously restored back to its Fox River Valley Railroad appearance. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) FM H-10-44 [12] 767 Georgia Pacific Railway: Alco S-2: 73 (Ex - 63–146)
Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, the railroad became owned by the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, later known as the Milwaukee Road. In 1864, a new mainline with a shorter route was built between Milwaukee and Portage via Watertown, and by 1869, the Chestnut Street line had become an industrial branch line. [2]: 8
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, also known as the "Milwaukee Road", reputedly had control of the Tacoma Eastern as early as 1901. [6] In the 1890s, the Milwaukee Road's directors desired a connection from the Midwest to the Pacific coast. [7] The Tacoma Eastern was an appealing investment for the Milwaukee Road.