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Source: Theodore Roosevelt A Life
lol i put milwaukee road not sure though.
Well, the Milw didn’t start the Pacific Extension until after 1900, so scratch that. I’m not sure where the Dakota Badlands are but a little voice in my head (which reminds me. I’ve got to take my medications) tells me they’re in the southern part, so I’m going w/ NP
Well the NP mainly goes through Livingston Montana and is the Yellowstone Route but enters the park from the North. So I am guessing it is too far north.
The GN is even further north.
The CB&Q south “main” is to the south of the UP through Nebraska to Denver. But the northern connection met the NP in Billings Montana so it has to swing northward somewhere along there. Also the Colorado Southern’s Northern Division went up that way but I think it was further over in Wyoming. But when I visited Rapid City in 1982 I remember seeing BN locomotives. Hmmmm.
The Milwaukee had a non-transcontenental western line that terminated in Rapid City, so that had to go right by/through the bad lands. But I have no idea when it was built (before or after the main transcon route). So that is my guess Milwaukee.
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Tracklayer
It is Northern Pacific
I would like to see a map of that. Unless what they are calling the “bad lands” isn’t THE bad lands.