Re: Re:Crowning Stampede Pass Tunnel
Author: Bryan
Date: 05-09-2017 - 09:47
HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
> I have often heard the lines west is what killed
> the Milwaukee, the beginning of the end.
>
> Not to sound ignorant but what makes thst route so
> special.
To the contrary as I have heard relayed many times, the Milwaukee's Coast Extension was the only thing propping up the railroad and was profitable right up to the end.
It was the maze of tangled Granger lines on the East end of the Milwaukee Road that drug it down.
Bryan