Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
 
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company


ICC Decision re: Northern Pacific Construction of branch, Mesato to Mattawa, Washington 1967

Classification Yards, 1956

A.C. Kalmbach, "Tomorrow's Railroad Today: How the Milwaukee has Eliminated All Intermediate Slowdowns on an Important High Speed Line, Trains, February, 1944

Joseph C. O'Hearn, "The Winter of '36: Division superintendent relates how the Milwaukee Road fought heavy snows in subzero cold," Trains, December, 1944

Railway Age, "Richland Creek Bridge," January 28, 1938. An advertisement for a 1907 Milwaukee Road concrete arch bridge

  1928

Letter, Darling to Donnelly 08/03/1928 Proposed NP Cascade Tunnel

  1926

Letter, Donnelly to Pearson 01/25/1926 Westbound Panama Canal Traffic on on NP down, losses to SP&S

  1925

Letter, Pearson to Elliott 11/23/1925 NP New Cascade Tunnel

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"The Railroad- Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, December 10, 1921, MILW and GN unwilling to give up contracts.

"Hearings on Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, December 10, 1921

"The Railroads and Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, November 28, 1921. Tonnage of Milwaukee and GN through their respective contracts

"Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, November 12, 1921. Language of Milwaukee contract.

The New York Times, "Rate Cuts Resulting from Panama Canal," November 23, 1921.

The Pacific Review, "Impressions of a Hobo," September, 1921.

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    1914 ICC Accounting Investigation: Ernest Ritson Dewsnup, "Recent Financial Investigations by the Interstate Commerce Commission,"  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 63, National Industries and the Federal Government (Jan., 1916), pp. 199-213

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    Record of PCE Construction, Complete Record, 1915 Valuation Study

  Breakdown by Section:

  Valuation Sections 1a-1c
  Moreau Branch
  Cheyenne Branch
  Valuation Sections North Dakota, PCE Mainline
  New England Branch, Valuation Sections North Dakota 3 and SD 4

  Montana Valuation Section 1, State line to Harlowton
  Montana Valuation Section 2, Harlowton to Lombard
  Montana Valuation Section 3, Lombard to Butte
  Montana Valuation Section 4, Butte to St. Paul Pass
  Montana Valuation Section 5, Harlowton to Lewistown
  Montana Valuation Section 6, Grass Range Line
  Montana Valuation Section 7, Roy Line
  Montana Valuation Section 8, Lewistown to Great Falls
  Montana Valuation Section 9, Great Falls to Agawam
  Montana Valuation Section 10, Ringling to Dorsey
  Idaho Valuation Section 1, Idaho Mainline
  Idaho Valuation Section 2, Plummer Jct to Manito Jct
  Idaho Valuation Section 3, St. Maries to Elk River Branch
  Idaho Valuation Section 4, Coeur d'Alene Branch
  Idaho Valuation Section 5, Pend 'Oreille Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 1, Idaho State Line to Maple Valley
  Washington Valuation Sections 4, 5, 5a, Maple Valley to Seattle
  Washington Valuation Section 7, Marcellus Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 7A, Moses Lake Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 8, Hanford Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 9, Everett Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 10, Enumclaw Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 11, Grays Harbor Branch

  Construction Record, Big Blackfoot Railway
  Construction Record, Gallatin Valley Railway
  Construction Record, Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor Railway
  Construction Record, Milwaukee Terminal Railway
  Construction Record, Bellingham & Northern Railway
  Construction Record, Seattle, Port Angeles & Western Railway
  Construction Record, Tacoma Eastern Railway

McGarvie, Mark. "A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF IMMIGRANT CONTRACT LABOR ON THE MILWAUKEE ROAD." Railroad History 1998 (179): 69-87.

Joint Line Talks with NP Dead, New York Times, June 26, 1909

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  1907

 "The Great Northern," "The Northern Pacific," and the "Chicago, Burlington & Quincy," Railway Age, November 22, 1907

"The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Railway Age, September 30, 1907

 "The Portland and Seattle Railroad," Railway Age, September 27, 1907

"Progress on the Western End of the St. Paul's Pacific Extension," Railway Age, September 20, 1907

"Earling Announces St. Paul to Operate Steamships," The American Marine Engineer, September, 1907

Jon Moen, Ellis Tallman, "The Bank Panic of 1907: The Role of Trust Companies," Journal of Economic History, 52:3, September, 1992 [password protected, copyright]

 "Chicago & Northwestern," Railway Age, August 23, 1907 

"Railroad Work in the Lewiston, Idaho Country," Railway Age, August 20, 1907

"St. Paul Extension Work, Snoqualmie Tunnel to Begin Soon," Railway Age, August 16, 1907

"Progress on the Western End of the St. Paul's Pacific Extension," Railway Age, July 19, 1907 

"Missouri River Bridge of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Mobridge, South Dakota,"   Railway Age, March 22, 1907

"Dakota Goes Down; Hill Won't Build Any More Liners," New York Times, March 8, 1907

 Henry Hyde, "A Gray Dreamer," The Technical World, February, 1907 -- puff piece on Hill

"Tacoma Terminals of the CM&St.P among the largest in USA," Sunset Magazine, 1907

 Sheldon Bebee, "Putting the Mountains to Work," The Technical World, February, 1907 -- Harriman and Electrification

"Labor Laws in a Tunnel," Railway Age, January 11, 1907  

"The St. Paul's Coast Extension," Railway Age, January 4, 1907 

"St Paul's Hurried Stock Issue," New York Times, January 3, 1907

Carl Snyder, "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," American Railways as Investments, 1907

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  1905

Railway Age, "E.J. Pearson Appointed Chief Engineer of the Pacific Railway," December 22, 1905

"Darling, Chief Engineer for PCE Construction Resigns, Goes to NP," New York Times, December 9, 1905

"The Southern Roads and the Territory They Serve," Railway Age, December 8, 1905 -- comparison with the St. Paul

Articles of Incorporation of CM&St.P of Montana, December 16, 1905

"New Pacific Coast Line," New York Times, December 3, 1905

Railway Age, "Announcement of CM&St.P to Build West," December 1, 1905

"Extension Formally Authorized," New York Times, November 29, 1905

Railway Age," Railroad Location in Valleys or on Ridges," November 22, 1905

Railway Age, "Incorporation of the Pacific Railroad," to build from Wallula to Tacoma and Seattle, November 10, 1905

"New Roads to the Black Hills," New York Times, October 15, 1905

"Extension Talk Baseless says Miller," New York Times, September 23, 1905

"May Extend to Pacific," New York Times, September 22, 1905

"Annual Report Comparing Earnings," Railway Age, September 22, 1905

Railway Age, "Bellingham Bay & British Columbia Ry to be Acquired by CP," August 25, 1905

Railway Age, "Railway Movements on the Puget Sound," September 16, 1904. Purchases of waterfront land in Tacoma and Seattle,  mean the prospective entrance of another great railway from the East, presumably, It is thought, the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul

GN Route Profile

  1901

 The Railway and Engineering Review, "New C.M.&St.P. Ore Dock at Escanaba, Michigan," March 16, 1901

 1890

 1887

 "St. Paul Buys Terminal Frontage in Seattle," The_Railway News, May 28, 1887

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Milwaukee Road Track
 Profiles



Homesteading
Beverly Investment Company
White Bluffs
Great Falls Western Railway
Milwaukee Hospital Association
Corporate Minutes
Republic Coal
Company
Milwaukee Land
Company
Port Townsend Ry
 Acquisition

Receivership, 1925

William Rockefeller

Albert Earling

Roswell Miller

Russell Sage

Annual Reports
Milwaukee Road Magazine
Corporate Acquisition History


References

H. Roger Grant, "Seeking the Pacific: the Chicago & North Western's Plans to Reach the West Coast," Pacific Northwest Quarterly,  April, 1990  [password needed, copyright]

Itothe Phucher, "The Puget Sound and Inland Empire Railway -- the Cascade Tunnel Route," A. Harriman Publishers, Seattle, 1925

Golden Grain Train

Judith River Bridge Construction

Kelly Creek Trestle Traveler Crane

Kelly Creek

The "Great Loop"

Proposed Bryson-Adair Tunnel

Temporary Bridge, later filled, the "Great Loop"

1887 Route Map


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