Cover:
With a "Hi!" from the head end, two of the Road's
transcontinental freights -- eastbound No. 262 at left and
westbound No. 263 on the right-meet in Coast Division
territory. A camera study by Dick Steinheimer, photo
historian of railroad action in the scenic West.
New Rail Lines Planned for the Columbia Basin ... 4
Review of 1965 and Outlook for 1966 ... 6
Operating Department Projects Highlighted at Staff
Meeting .... 6
Appointments .... 9
Soaking Up the Sunshine in Sun City .... 12
Road Opposes Yankton -- Sioux City Navigation Project
.... 15
Agent Joe Ziebarth Reitres -- Sets 76 Year Industry
Service Record ... 16
Retirements .... 17
About the People of the Railroad ... 19
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Cover:
"The big blizzard of
1966"
that raged through our Aberdeen Division
early in March left in its wake ice-hard drifts ranging from
5 to 30 feet in death along a section of our main line in
South Dakota. Here electric rotary
X90021-2,
operated special from our Pacific Northwest
mountain territory to effect a breakthrough from the west,
is clearing a snow-filled cut a few miles from Lemmon
Annual Report-1965 ....3
"Operation Snowplow" .. 8
Appointments ------------11
Rocky Mountain Division Retains
Safety Title -----12
Vice President W. W. Kremer Retires;
Officers Assume new Positions .. 14
Road Lends Support to 1966 Payroll Savings Bond Drive
------16
Dining Car Employes Win Sixth Sanitation Award --------17
Plans Announced for Development of New Schaumburg
Industrial District -----------19
About People of the Railroad ------20
Retirements ---------------42
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Cover:
Arial View of the Milwaukee Shops
Milwaukee Landmark Fades Into History -----------4
Variety
Abounds in Low Cost
Travel Specials ------7
Highlights
of the Annual Stockholders' Meeting ----8
Once
Again It's "King Coal"
-------11
The
Credit Union Story ---12
Comments From Our Customers
----14
Why I'm Sold on Wearing
Safety Shoes --------------16
Appointments --------17
Retirements ------------18
Where Are They Now? --19
About People of the Railroad----
20
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 Cover: Scene at the
St. Louis Park (Minneapolis) elevator of the Archer Daniels
Midland Company as new covered hopper cars received their
first load of wheat for a unit train movement to Norfolk,
Va. and thence to India, looking on are, from left: S. P. Elmslie, the rood's assistant traffic manager-grain sales;
G. L. Eastling Jr, branch manager, grain division, U.S.
Department of
Agriculture, Minneapolis; and A. L. Dittmeyer, superintendent of the elevator, The cars are part
of a fleet of 600 new 100-ton covered hoppers currently on
order for the Milwaukee Road, Ninety cars from on initial
1966 order for 200 have been received and placed in service,
and the other 110 will be delivered in August.
Veterans Reunion ... 4
New Industrial Park Opened Online at
Itasca ... 8
Appointments .... 9
Milwaukee and CNW File Application with
ICC for Consolidation ... 11
J.T. Gillick Scholarship Winners for 1966
.... 12
Train Travel Soars During Airline Strike
... 13
Case "Special" Recalls Early Showmanship
... 14
Grace Johnson Heads National Railway
Women Business Assoc. ... 15
Retirements .... 18
About People of the Railroad ... 19
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Cover: "The Red Vests Ride Again!" This time to sound an
alert to the "Roaring '90s," the road's new
all-piggyback trains operating between
Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul-Minneapolis as Nos. 98 and 99.
Shown here is an
80~man
task force of sales and service men-a
full carload-moving into the Twin Cities on Sept. 11 for the
start of an intensive marketing campaign in the four cities.
The picture was taken al the road's piggyback loading and
unloading strip in St. Paul. For the story of the sales
drive, see page 4.
The Red Vests Alert Shippers to the
Roaring 90s --- 4
The Report on National Transportation Week
--- 9
President Quinn Cites Growth Prospects in
the Pacific Northwest --- 10
A New Industry Opens On Line; Burlington Welcomes The
Nestle Company Back to Wisconsin ---
12
In the Retirement Spotlight
------
14
Employes Rally to Crusades of Mercy --- 15
Appointments
------16
Retirements
-----------17
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Cover:
IN the area east of the diesel house at
Milwaukee Shops, W. C. Gage, superintendent of motive power
(right), and D. L. Drew, assistant foreman of the diesel
house, are discussing the operation of a new 3,000 h.p.
GP-40 diesel-electric locomotive.
Curtiss E. Crippen Elected President of the Road ---4
The Milwaukee and the North Western Support Northern
Lines Merger Plan ----6
Daylighting Project at Neva Tunnel ... 7
Super Valu to Build
"Super"
Warehouse ....8
The Daily Exodus From Suburbia 9
A Biennial Report From The Milwaukee Road Women's Club
....10
Carrying On for a Fallen Soldier ---11
Sioux City Retirement-Reunion
Draws
Record Turnout ----12
Appointments ----------12
Retirements ---------14
About People of the
Railroad
----16
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