DanS Wrote:
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> DBA, thanks for the continued shares... sadly nothing in this scene that says "Milwaukee Road".

I've got some slides of the ex-Milwaukee stations at Hettinger, ND (still in use and a crew change point), McLaughlin, SD (now razed) and Aberdeen, SD (still in use with some other tenants). I'll post them as time permits.

> Working my way through college back then, so these trips would have been unaffordable - but curious if you recall the cost of a trip like this back in the day?

They definitely weren't cheap but different people have different incomes and, for some people, the fares would be viewed as "pocket change." I figured they were worth it due to the fact that they would never be repeated. Credit cards and installment payments helped. On a 2000 trip to Mexico I split a ticket with another guy. I rode southbound and he rode northbound.

Here's a flier I came across that discusses one of the Mexico trips.