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1984 Profile of The Milwaukee Road
Mileage: 3064
Locomotives: 323
Passenger cars: 347
Freight Cars: 11,411
Company Service cars: 1492
The following data show how the Milwaukee Road looked in 1971 when the railroad still ran all the way to the Pacific west
Coast. It was then a 10,526 mile railroad with its mileage broken down by each state the railroad served as a trans con as
follows:
Idaho, 233 miles
Illinois 682 miles
Indiana 156 miles
Iowa 1728 miles
Michigan 152 miles
Minnesota 1328 miles
Missouri 156 miles
Montana 1242 miles
North Dakota 367 miles
South Dakota 1724 miles
Washington 1156 miles
Wisconsin 1581 miles
all other 21 miles
Total 10,526 miles
EQUIPMENT SUMMARIES
A. Locomotive Fleet
1.Road Freight 131
2.Multiple Purpose 320
3.Switching 205
4.Passenger 36
5.Electric 38
Total locomotives 730
B.Freight Cars
1.Box and Auto 16,154
2.Gondola & Hopper 7,321
3.Flat 3,195
4.Others 3,421
Total Freight Cars: 30,091
C.Passenger Cars 72 (virtually all of them bilevels)
DESCRIPTIONS OF OPERATING DIVISIONS (East to West tour of the railroad)
1.Terre Haute Division-covered territory between Franklin Park,Joliet, and Seymour.
2.Chicago Terminals Division-covered territory between Chicago,Montrose Avenue, and Bensenville.
3.Milwaukee Division-covered territory between Chicago,Depue,Oglesby,Killredge,Portage,WI,Champion,and Ontonagon,MI.
4.Dubuque and Illinois Division-covered the territory between Bensenville,LaCrosse,Charles City, and Kansas City.
5.Iowa Division-encompassed the territory betweenSabula, Calmar,Omaha, Sioux City,Rembrandt,Spirit Lake.
6.LaCrosse Division-covered the territory between Milwaukee,Woodruff, Twin Cities region, and Prairie du Chen.
7.Aberdeen Division- covered territory between Farmington,WI,Twin Cities,Mitchell,Fargo, and Miles City.
8.Iowa,Minnesota,and Dakota Division- covered territory between Lacrosse, Calmar,Bristol,Rapid City,Morningside,Platee,and
Twin Cities region.
9.Rocky Mountain Division-covered territory between Miles City,Agawam,and Avery.
10.Coast Division- covered between Avery,Limestone,,Morton,WA and Portland, Ore.
In Addition, there were terminal divisions for Chicago,Milwaukee, and the Twin Cities.
DIESEL ROSTER
EMD FP45 3600 hp 1-5 5 units
EMD E9A 2400 hp 32A-38C 6 units
EMD F9B 1750 hp 31B-33B 3 units
EMD SD40-2 3000 hp 21-30 10 units
EMD F9A 1750 hp 93A-94C,125A,126A 4 units
EMD F9B 1750 hp 125BCD,126BCD 6 units
EMD SD40-2 3000 hp 171-209 39 units
EMD GP9 1750 hp 210-331 22 units
EMD GP38 2000 hp 350-355 6 units
EMD GP38-2 2000 hp 356-365 10 units
FM H16-44 1600 hp 402-436 35 units
Alco RS3 1600 hp 465 1 unit
Alco RS2 1500 hp 467-469 3 units
EMD SD7 1500 hp 500-523 24 units
FM H16-66 1600 hp 547-552 6 units
BLW AS616 1600 hp 565-567 3 units
Alco RSD5 1600 hp 570-575 6 units
Alco RSC2 1600 hp 576-579 4 units
Alco RSC2 1600 hp 594-596 3 units
EMD SW1200 1200 hp 600-619,625-652 48 units
EMD SW9 1200 hp 620-622 3 units
EMD SW7 1200 623 1 unit
EMD NW2 1000 665-672 8 units
EMD TR4A 1200 690A-695A 6 units
EMD TR4B 1200 690B-695B 6 units
EMD TR2A/B 1000 696A/B 2 units
FM H12-44 1200 700-783 84 units
Alco S2/S4 1000 816-819 4 units
BLW S-2 1000 900-925 26 units
BLW AS616 1600 926-927 2 units
BLW VO1000 1000 932-940 8 units
EMD GP20 2000 946-999 54 units
EMD GP30 2250 1000-1015 16 units
EMD GP35 2500 1500-1511 12 units
EMD GP40 3000 2000-2071 72 units
EMD SD40-2 3000 3000-3040 41 units
EMD SD45 3600 4000-4009 10 units
GE U23B 2250 4800-4805 6 units
GE U28B 2800 5500-5511 12 units
GE U30B 3000 6000-6009 10 units
GE U30C 3000 8000-8003 4 units
GE U36C 3600 8500-8503 4 units
EMD SDL39 2300 hp 581-590 10 units
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