My grandfather was the roundhouse foreman in Monte. He retired in the late 60’s. He started his career as a young boy hauling water for the workers. He saw the transition from steam to diesel. My mom would ride the turn table some nights with him.
Around 1958-'59, when I was a little kid, I had a pair of bibs with a Milwaukee Road patch on them. I loved them and was very sad when I outgrew them. My Grandpa, an uncle and a great uncle all worked for the Burlington at the time. My folks would put me on the Zephyr at the station in the cities and I would ride by myself down to visit my grandparents in Illinois (starting when I was 7 years old, how times have changed!) I came back on the Zephyr through the great flood of 1965, what a sight! Thanks for this awesome video, I enjoy all your work but the train stuff has a special place in my heart..
I like Monte. It is an interesting town. It must have been the Division HQ having all of those assets there. One-time years ago, in the late 80s or early 90s, we stayed at the Best Western downtown. That was fun. We had dinner downtown, had drinks in a friendly little bar downstairs from the hotel. I think it was part of the Best Western. Then, we walked up to the room. Never even had to get in the car once the whole night. They have an interesting Prairie Village there with the old style Lutheran Church. It has the event sign written in part Swedish, part English. It reminded me of the old Swedish Lutheran Church in Walnut Grove that my Dad attended.
Neat video! Glad to see that some of the equipment looks nicely preserved; but it was almost painful to see the remains of at least 2 of the famed Skytop Lounges in there. Looking at the area from Google Earth, it appears that the mainline through there is preserved (operational?) & I am assuming still connected to the rest of the national rail network? If so, who is the current operator? I know large sections of the Milwaukee Road mainline were pulled up (the Hiawatha Rail Trail for example), but others were acquired by nearby railroads.
My grandfather was the roundhouse foreman in Monte. He retired in the late 60’s. He started his career as a young boy hauling water for the workers. He saw the transition from steam to diesel. My mom would ride the turn table some nights with him.
Sure glad all this remains!
We will never see a railroad as varied, colorful, and just plain neat like this ever again.
Those were the good old days
Well done!
I'm always waiting for the train, that will never come again....
Thank you for sharing,
These short of yours are quite good.
Really cool, thank you!
The museum in town is awesome! Definitely worth a visit. ❤
REALLY?
Great shots of the beaver tail shell.
Montevideo is such a pretty place. We always go to the pioneer village for their Christmas in the Village.
Around 1958-'59, when I was a little kid, I had a pair of bibs with a Milwaukee Road patch on them. I loved them and was very sad when I outgrew them. My Grandpa, an uncle and a great uncle all worked for the Burlington at the time. My folks would put me on the Zephyr at the station in the cities and I would ride by myself down to visit my grandparents in Illinois (starting when I was 7 years old, how times have changed!) I came back on the Zephyr through the great flood of 1965, what a sight! Thanks for this awesome video, I enjoy all your work but the train stuff has a special place in my heart..
I like Monte. It is an interesting town. It must have been the Division HQ having all of those assets there. One-time years ago, in the late 80s or early 90s, we stayed at the Best Western downtown. That was fun. We had dinner downtown, had drinks in a friendly little bar downstairs from the hotel. I think it was part of the Best Western. Then, we walked up to the room. Never even had to get in the car once the whole night. They have an interesting Prairie Village there with the old style Lutheran Church. It has the event sign written in part Swedish, part English. It reminded me of the old Swedish Lutheran Church in Walnut Grove that my Dad attended.
Awesome video. Thank you for sharing this. Hope that Skytop observation car gets restored to it's former glory.
From Montevideo, Uruguay a great video to know the RR´s in that area!
Neat video! Glad to see that some of the equipment looks nicely preserved; but it was almost painful to see the remains of at least 2 of the famed Skytop Lounges in there.
Looking at the area from Google Earth, it appears that the mainline through there is preserved (operational?) & I am assuming still connected to the rest of the national rail network? If so, who is the current operator? I know large sections of the Milwaukee Road mainline were pulled up (the Hiawatha Rail Trail for example), but others were acquired by nearby railroads.
COOL Train history.New Subscriber here
I have a few photoes of the old MLW from the 1970s.
That depot is the one used in the movie sweet land
You didn’t show the frying pan grown into the tree at the hobo camp
Do you have any stories or old footage of the M&St.L R. R. ?
Yes, lots of ideas!