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Trainfest started in 1971 as a one-day show in a Milwaukee Veterans of Foreign Wars hall. [1] Today, Trainfest is a two-day event sponsored by the Wisconsin Southeastern (WISE) division of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) and takes over 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) of the Wisconsin Exposition Center during the second weekend of November. [2]
The magazine had to relocate 4 times, the original location was on 545 S. 84th Street (now a car wash) and later relocated to 1027 N. 7th Street (now part of Milwaukee Public Television and Milwaukee Area Technical College), from 1989 to 2024, they moved to 21027 Crossroads Circle in nearby Waukesha and in 2024, Kalmbach recently sold their ...
Build date Builder Former operators Retire date Disposition and location Notes References Denver and Rio Grande Western 5371 August 1975 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; December 5, 2008 On static display at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah [10] Denver and Rio Grande ...
He founded Model Railroader in Milwaukee at 545 S. 84 th St., now the site of a car wash, and moved the magazine several times to locations including what’s now Milwaukee Area Technical College ...
One of the city's biggest summer attractions will return next year, adding another big event to what's shaping up to be a busy month in the city.
The Zoo Line, the miniature railroad at the Milwaukee County Zoo, is shown beginning its daily operating schedule June 21, 1959. The steam-engine train was donated to the zoo by The Journal Company.
The first electric streetcar in Milwaukee operated on Wells Street on April 3, 1890. The Waukesha Beach Railway was formally opened on June 25, 1895. The first interurban ran between Milwaukee and Kenosha on June 1, 1897. Other lines soon reached Watertown, Burlington, and East Troy.
The 2025 dates for the Milwaukee Air Show are little less crowded calendar-wise than they were in 2024, when the air show shared Milwaukee's lakefront with the Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival.