If your modeling the Milwaukee Road, what part of the line do you model and name your favorite locomotive along with that. I want to see how many other people than me model the Milwaukee.
My favorite locomotive that I own is the Bipolar [:D]
I model HO and I;ve set the scene on western division or the Rocky mountain division.
James
Well I am going to have some Milwaukee stuff in my layout. Narrow gauge 2-6-0’s on loan from their NG line in Iowa(or an interchange with them havent decided) but it will be Milwaukee and maybe toss in the standard gauge side as well. Hope to be geting the planning done as we are finally getting my house WOOOOOH OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I model the Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin. My layout is set in the late 50’s and we still have not seen ‘Omaha Yellow’ passenger equipment on this division yet!
My favorite Milwaukee engine? Not sure, but I do like the branchline stuff:
o - SD7
o - RSC2(really like the RSC2m conversions that Alco did for the Milwaukee).
o - SDL39
Jim Bernier
My Moose Bay Railroad is freelanced, but most of my power is Milwaukee. That’s what I ended up with 40 years ago as a teenager, so when I pulled them out of the box, I kind of stayed with them. I still like the color scheme, and I’ve got the cabeese to match as well.
Of all my old engines, though, only the gear-drive Athearn F7 was in real running condition. I took the belt-drive F7 and a belt-drive GP-9 and turned them into dummies. I’ve since bought a P2K GP-9 and a P1K RSC-2. I use the sleek F7’s for passenger service.
Here’s a family photo taken in front of my roundhouse:
Nice to see some modelers of the milwaukee road. I want An SDL39! My dads friend has two of them and they look great! There the coolest little SD that I know of. There is one thing I’m wondering though MisterBeasley? How did you get that Round house to even stay together? I can’t get anything to stay together on mine.
James
James, you and me gotta work on your layout this week!
Anyone have any brass loco’s in Milwaukee besides James?
The roundhouse is an Atlas. There’s nothing fancy about it. I use liquid styrene cement, and hold stuff together until it sets in 30 seconds or so. Actually, I spent about 6 weeks of “spare time” putting the roundhouse together, but a lot of that was painting and putting together the interior detailing, which was all scratch-built. I’ve still got to attach the rock-wall foundation (instead of the supplied plastic foundation pieces) and do some weathering on it. It needs interior lighting, too. (The roof isn’t on yet, so the room light is making the interior visible.)
My railroad’s name is the Waukesha & Menomonee Valley Railroad and Navigation Company. I freelance the Soo Line’s Soo-Milwaukee System, set in the 1980’s. I have about 7 MILW Engines, and 2 Soo engines. I like the 1980’s, because of the variety of power used, and all of the info. avaiable about the period. My dad is always telling me what kind of engines to use, because he lived it, and I didn’t. Also durring this period, you start to see WSOR popping up around the yard, and many old cars still around. I also model a free-lanced logging railroad, which is mainly based upon Cass, WV and Durbin, WV. I would say my favorite engine hauling a train would have to be a MILW SD9 hauling a rib-side box car, 2 ore cars, a flat car, a hopper, and a Rib Side caboose. All next to the Mineral Point depot.
Phil
Okay, have to admit that I am a CB&Q (Burlington Route) modeler. However, the upcoming layout will have iterchange points with some other midwest RRs. I already decided that The Milwaukee Road will be one of the interchanges. Any excuse to have some orange Alcos or GP-9s on the layout.
Rick
I model the Washington, Idaho & Montana Ry., a North Idaho common carrier originally owned by the Potlatch Lumber Co. The WI&M interchanged with the Milwaukee’s Elk River Branch at Bovill, ID, and after Potlatch sold the line to the Milwaukee Land Co. in 1962, the Milwaukee Road ran the WI&M until 1980. I mainly model the 1950’s era, before the Milwaukee takeover, but sometimes I run 1970’s era Milwaukee Road trains instead.
My favorite MILW locomotives are the dynamic-brake-equipped GP-9’s that ran on the WI&M and Elk River Branch. I own only one of these right now, a P2K GP-9 numbered 281. I just wi***hat the Milwaukee had assigned some of its more exotic locomotives to the western part of the system.
Tom
I don’t model the Milwaukee per se, but I will have trains coming onto my layout from staging, which have just picked up interchange traffic from the Milwaukee at Cheneyville, IL, to head to Peoria and Kansas City. Since the Milwaukee was a large interchange partner witht he NKP, and because the Milwaukee had such a large freight car fleet, they’ll be VERY well represented in my freight car fleet. So far, my Milwaukee roster includes one Intermountain USRA composite gon, two Red Caboose GS gons, one Ertl USRA double sheathed box, two Sunshine single sheathed boxes, five Rib Car Side ribbed boxes (single & double door) and three Westerfield 36’ stock cars. I need to add a couple more SS boxes, a few more gons, and at least one flat to the roster.