Guys, As a true 'dyed in the wool' Milwaukee fan, all you have to do
to build your layout is a field of yellow grass and run rails through
it. No ties, no ballast and no track gauge! what could be easier. Even
better you could model the 80's when they stopped running trains west of
the Minnesota state line! I walked the branch line that went through my
home town and many of the ties were the consistency of balsa wood. The
rail was so light and worn they were running at 5 mph toward the end.
The rail had been milled in Germany in the 1880's and never had been
updated! no need for 100 tone grain hoppers there!
On a more serious note, modeling the Milwaukee in S is fairly good
when the product selection is considered, especially during the orange /
black and prior schemes. The Milwaukee had lot's of Alco RS's, lot's
of GP-9's, SD-7/9's, SW of all kinds, most of the E and F unit styles.
Later on they had a decent assortment of U boats and even later the
SD-40-2's kept the road going until the end.
What the Milwaukee modeler is truly missing is the horizontal
ribbed bay window cabooses at ran the rails for 40 years. Unfortunately
the SHS caboose was normally used only on one route in the later years
and the AM's old style caboose painted for the road misses the boat also.
Bob Werre
John Prior wrote:
>Kelvin
>You advise that it is, "Time to settle down and do something". I always
>thought it was the 'Demon' in you, that made you change your
>Scale/Gauge/Road/Era once a week. Is this now to change? How will all your
>friends be able to poke fun at you in the future?
>
>Now if you concentrate on the Milwaukee in the Orange and Black era, you
>know how to reproduce accurately the trackwork then so often found on the
>Milw. In fact the baseboards might be the most level part of the layout!
>:-)
>
>Hopefully this new empire will stretch to the electrified section and we
>will see
>Little Joe's and Bipolars! But now the hunt must be on for a collection of
>horizontal ribbed boxcars?
>
>Regards
>John, where's the baseboards, Prior
>Swindon, England
>
>
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>> Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 14:07:03 +0100
>> From: "Kelvin A. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: Milwaukee Road Locomotive Decals
>>
>>Thanks Gale
>>
>>Ron will be getting a order in the next day or so - I've some F7s, RS3s
>>
>>
>GP9s
>
>
>>and GP35s and SW9 that need to be unified - I'm fed up of the great Undec
>>Railroad.....I have too many dreams of with this loco I could make it into
>>X, Y or Z railroad. Time to settle down and do something. Yes to John
>>
>>
>Prior
>
>
>>the new baseboards are build.
>>
>>Best regards
>>
>>Kelvin White
>>Oxford, England
>>
>>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>PLEASE NOTE my email is changing in Mid May to
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>almost the same - just no Demon!
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