The Milwaukee Road
The Milwaukee Road

Author: Tom Murray

Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)

Published: 2005-10-29

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0760320721

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The true grit and glory days of one of America's greatest railroads come to dramatic life in this full-scale illustrated history by industry veteran Tom Murray. Words and pictures carry readers across the vast tracts of land and time traversed by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific-better known to history as the Milwaukee Road. Ranging from the railroad's late-nineteenth-century beginnings to its purchase by onetime rival Soo Line in 1985, the book looks at The Milwaukee Road's famed streamlined Hiawatha passenger trains, the "Little Joe" electric locomotives, and the sprawling fabrication and repair facilities in its namesake city. Whether surveying the railroad's routes and the trains that plied them, and the people who worked behind the scenes, or focusing on the line's motive power, rolling stock, passenger and freight operations, The Milwaukee Road provides a broad-scale, brilliantly detailed portrait of a great railroad, an industry, and a bygone era.

Lost Milwaukee
Lost Milwaukee

Author: Carl Swanson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1467138630

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From City Hall to the Pabst Theater, reminders of the past are part of the fabric of Milwaukee. Yet many historic treasures have been lost to time. An overgrown stretch of the Milwaukee River was once a famous beer garden. Blocks of homes and apartments replaced the Wonderland Amusement Park. A quiet bike path now stretches where some of fastest trains in the world previously thundered. Today's Estabrook Park was a vast mining operation, and Marquette University covers the old fairgrounds where Abraham Lincoln spoke. Author Carl Swanson recounts these stories and other tales of bygone days.

The Hiawatha Story
The Hiawatha Story

Author: Jim Scribbins

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1452912963

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Originally published: Milwaukee: Kalmbach, 1970.

Classic American Railroad Terminals
Classic American Railroad Terminals

Author: Kevin J. Holland

Publisher: Motorbooks International

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0760308322

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A blend of archival photos combine with modern color shots to relate the stories behind the design, the architecture, and the use of terminals like Grand Central Station and Pennsylvania Station in New York City, and Washington, D.C.'s Union Station. 150 photos.

Trackside Scenes You Can Model
Trackside Scenes You Can Model

Author: Jim Kelly

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780890244234

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Photos capture prototype railroad features including yards, bridges, service facilities, and tunnels. Included are modeling ideas, suggested kits, recommended materials, and more.

Train Pictures, 1946-1957
Train Pictures, 1946-1957

Author: Charles B. McCreary

Publisher: Malabar Rails Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780615359601

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Two teenage railfans are at trackside with their cameras--John at age fifteen and Chuck at fourteen--starting an adventure that will last from 1946 until 1957, searching for train pictures. The story beings on their hometown railroad, the Chicago & North Western, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Then for the next twelve years they move on, expanding their search for trains to Milwaukee, Chicago, the Twin Cities, Western Pennsylvania and Montana. Train Pictures is the gorgeous result of their years of train searching. The book's 440 pages include more than 400 train photos, including 227 steam engines and 165 first-generation diesels, all with ample captions. Additionally, the 25 chapters include 38 sidebars, 50 non-railroad photos, and 13 maps.

The Inspirationists, 1714–1932 Vol 3
The Inspirationists, 1714–1932 Vol 3

Author: Peter Hoehnle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1351543482

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The Community of True Inspiration, or Inspirationists, was one of the most successful religious communities in the United States. This collection offers a broad variety of Inspirationist texts, almost all of them translated from German and published here for the first time.

Bucketfoot Al
Bucketfoot Al

Author: Clifton Blue Parker

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0786486406

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Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Athletics, to multiple championships, before becoming just another ballplayer. While his achievements demonstrated greatness, he was not an easy man to like--for those competing against him or with him--and he seemed to play to the level of team expectation. Contemporary accounts and other recollections give us a sense of Al Simmons the person and the ballplayer, his connections to people, his teams and his ability to capture the fans' imagination in his halcyon days.

Damn the Old Tinderbox!
Damn the Old Tinderbox!

Author: Matthew J. Prigge

Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0870208829

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In the dead of an unassuming January night in 1883, Milwaukee’s Newhall House hotel was set on fire. Two hours later, the building—once among the tallest in the nation—lay in ruins and over seventy people were dead. It was a tragedy that brought global notice to Milwaukee, with daring escapes and rescues and heart-wrenching tales of victims burned to death or killed as they leapt from the burning building. From the great horror emerged an even greater string of mysteries: Who had set the fire and who was to blame for the staggering loss of life? The Newhall’s hard-luck barkeeper? A gentleman arsonist? What of the many other unexplained fires at the hotel? Had the Newhall’s management neglected fire safety to boost their profits? Damn the Old Tinderbox! is the gripping tale of one of the Gilded Age’s forgotten calamities, a fire that remains among the deadliest unsolved arsons in American history, and a significant chapter in both the history of Milwaukee and the Midwest.