MILWAUKEE ROAD COAST DIVISION
This is John Crosby's photo narrative of his days as a brakeman on The Milwaukee Road, America's Resourceful Railroad. Please select a chapter at right. A good companion to this site is the Milwaukee Road Coast Division 1976-78 DVD, a 20+ minute fully-narrated film documenting John's years on the 'Road.
NOTE: this site is under construction, and will have many, many more photos uploaded.
COAST DIVISION
SEATTLE YARD- Survivin' the Night
- Puget Sound Barges
- Switchin' & Trampin'
- Flat Switching
- Black River Yard & The P.C.R.R.
- Road Extra Board
- Tacoma Roundhouse
- Tacoma Junction
- Joint Line: Superiority of Trains
- Joint Line: Automatic Block Signals (ABS)
- Mainline: Othello
- Mainline: Extra 194 West
- Mainline: Extra 156 East
- Mainline: Beverly Depot
- Mainline: Columbia River Bridge, Boylston Tunnel, Renslow Trestle
- Mainline: Snoqualmie Pass
- Mainline: Cle Elum
- Mainline: Work Trains and Wreckers
- South Line: Rule 99 Territory
- Burlington Northern Pacific Division Third Sub: Centralized Traffic Control (CTC)
- Portland Trains
- Hoquiam Turn
- Tacoma and Eastern Railway (12th Sub): Mineral Turn
- Tacoma and Eastern Railway (12th Sub): Morton Local
- Olympic Peninsula (14th Sub): Port Angeles to Portland
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