Milwaukee Road Archives


	Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
	Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company
		Track Profiles Corporate Minutes ICC Decision re: Northern Pacific Construction of branch, Mesato to Mattawa, Washington 1967 Port Townsend Railroad Acquisition -- Construction of Port Angeles Barge Facility, Correspondence, 1965-1966 Classification Yards, 1956 A.C. Kalmbach, "Tomorrow's Railroad Today: How the Milwaukee has Eliminated All Intermediate Slowdowns on an Important High Speed Line, Trains, February, 1944 Joseph C. O'Hearn, "The Winter of '36: Division superintendent relates how the Milwaukee Road fought heavy snows in subzero cold," Trains, December, 1944 Railway Age, "Richland Creek Bridge," January 28, 1938. An advertisement for a 1907 Milwaukee Road concrete arch bridge 1928 Letter, Darling to Donnelly 08/03/1928 Proposed NP Cascade Tunnel 1926 Letter, Donnelly to Pearson 01/25/1926 Westbound Panama Canal Traffic on on NP down, losses to SP&S 1925 Letter, Pearson to Elliott 11/23/1925 NP New Cascade Tunnel 1922 "Co-operative Switching of Joint Tracks Succeeds at Seattle," Railway Age, May 20, 1922 "St. Paul May Disregard Cancellation Order," Traffic World, March 11, 1922 "Railroad Steamship Contracts, MILW and GN Ordered to Cancel," Traffic World, March 4, 1922 "Tacoma Chamber of Commerce Protests MILW GN Contract Termination," Traffic World, February 25, 1922 "Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, February 4, 1922, MILW and GN Negotiations with Shipping Board "Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, January 7, 1922. MILW and GN not cancelling. "General Rate Inquiry, Byram Testifies," Traffic World, January 21, 1922 1921 "The Railroad- Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, December 10, 1921, MILW and GN unwilling to give up contracts. "Hearings on Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, December 10, 1921 "The Railroads and Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, November 28, 1921. Tonnage of Milwaukee and GN through their respective contracts "Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, November 12, 1921. Language of Milwaukee contract. The New York Times, "Rate Cuts Resulting from Panama Canal," November 23, 1921. 1920 "1920-21 Pacific International Trade Year Book," Japanese Chamber of Commerce, November, 1920, Tonnage figures for Port of Seattle "Summary of Congressional Investigation into Aircraft Expenditures," Aerial Age, March 1, 1920, etc. Port Angeles Spruce Railroad. 1919 Robert Bridges, "Efforts of the Port District of the Port of Seattle to Own and Operate a Port Belt Line,' Annals of the American Academy of Political Science, November, 1919 "The Railroad Problem -- special issue," Annals of the American Academy of Political Science, November, 1919 "John D. Ryan before Congressional Investigating Committee," Aerial Age, November 10, 1919 "Cost of Airplane Spruce Production," American Lumberman, August 9, 1919 "Milwaukee Land Company, Vast Lands in North Idaho," American Lumberman, August 9, 1919 "Sale of US Spruce Corporation Mills and Lake Crescent RR," American Lumberman, July 5, 1919 Joint Construction Agreement with Montana Eastern Railroad (GN) April 1, 1919 1918 Railway Age, "The Northern Pacific and the St. Paul," September 6, 1918 Corporate History of the Milwaukee Road, 1918 1917 Letter answering ICC Construction Questions, October 5, 1917 Obituary, "W.R. Lanning," Proceedings of the American Railway Bridge and Building Association, October, 1917 1916 "Concreting Plant for Rosalia Bridge Construction," Engineering and Contracting, November 22, 1916 E.E.R. Tratman, "Don J. Whittemore's Services to Engineering," Engineering News, July 27, 1916 "Proposal to Create a Shipping Board," Congressional Serial Set, July, 1916, St. Paul and NP info at p. 43 Rosalia Bridge Construction, American Railway Bridge and Building Association, Proceedings Larry Neal, "Investment Behavior by American Railroads: 1897-1914," The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 51, No. 2 (May, 1969), pp. 126-135. 1914 ICC Accounting Investigation: Ernest Ritson Dewsnup, "Recent Financial Investigations by the Interstate Commerce Commission," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 63, National Industries and the Federal Government (Jan., 1916), pp. 199-213 Effect of the Panama Canal Opening, Calvin Crumbaker, "The Panama Canal and the West," The Journal of Business of the University of Chicago, 2:2, April, 1929, pp. 151-176. 1915 "The Wisdom of the Puget Sound Extension," Railway Age, October 10, 1915 Various Construction Projects, CM&StP, Railway Age, October 1, 1915 ABS Signals Installed, Railway Age, August 6, 1915 NP Ventilates Stampede Tunnel, Railway Age, August 6, 1915 "Lining Tunnels on the New Lewistown -- Great Falls Line of the CM&St.P.," Railway Age, May 7, 1915 "The Snoqualmie Tunnel," Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way, May, 1915 "New Line from Lewistown, Mont. to Great Falls," Railway Age, April 2, 1915 "Lining the Snoqualmie Tunnel," Railway Age, January 22, 1915 "St. Paul and Oregon-Washington Joint Terminals in Spokane," Railway Age, January 15, 1915 1914 "St. Paul's Borrowing," Commercial West, December 5, 1914 "Milwaukee Land Co installs Electric Light Plants for Geraldine, other Northern Montana Towns," Commercial West, October 14, 1914 Articles of Incorporation, Great Falls Western Railway, July 25, 1914 "ICC Accounting Opinion," Commercial West, March 21, 1914 New York Times, "Feeder for the St. Paul Road," March 12, 1914 -- Purchase of the Bellingham Bay & British Columbia Ry. "Statistics of Railways of the United States," Interstate Commerce Commission, 1914 1913 "Pacific Northwest News," Commercial West, November 8, 1913 -- UP has "running rights" on Milwaukee into Seattle "Tug "Milwaukee" Built For Milwaukee Terminal Railway Co.," Pacific Marine Review, November, 1913 "Montana is Prosperous, John D. Ryan Comments," Commercial West, September 27, 1913 "Pacific Northwest Notes, No Foreign Traffic at Portland," Commercial West, September 27, 1913 "Puget Sound Bonds, Dollar for Dollar, Represent the Cost of the Pacific Extension," Commercial West, September 27, 1913 Lewistown Line Construction, The Railway and Engineering Review, June 28, 1913 Lewistown Line Construction, The Railway and Engineering Review, July 19, 1913 Decree of Dissolution of CM&StP of Montana, July 3, 1913 Engineering & Contracting, "Surveys from Moses Lake to Bellingham," June 4, 1913 "Steamship Company Affiliations on the Pacific Coast," US Senate Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, June, 1913 Engineering & Contracting, "Some Features of Double Track Railroad Construction on the CM&St.P.," June 4, 1913 Roswell Miller Obituary, Railway World, February, 1913 "Transcontinental Railroad Steamship Contracts," Proceedings of the Committee on the Merchant Marine, 1913 "The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Analyses of Railroad Corporations Whose Bonds are Legal Investments for Massachusetts Savings Banks, by Old Colony Trust Company, 1913 1912 New York Times, "To Merge Puget Sound Road," December 20, 1912. "Trans-Pacific Service," Pacific Marine Review, December, 1912, Relationship of Osaka Shosen Kaishen with St. Paul RR "Big Swings in the St. Paul," Financial World, November 23, 1912 "Northern Pacific Annual Report," Pacific Marine Review, November, 1912. Effects of Milwaukee competition; North Coast Limited to be operated over CNW into Chicago. "Chicago-Milwaukee & St Paul -- Deficit Reduction," Pacific Marine Review, October, 1912 "Earnings of the C,M & St. P Railway," Pacific Marine Review, September, 1912 W.F. Bartholomew, "St. Paul: It's Potentialities and Outlook," Investments, August, 1912 "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail Mill,' Railway Age, June 21, 1912 "Contracts Let for Lewistown Line Project," Engineering and Contracting, June 5, 1912 "Advertisement for Osaka Shosen Kaishen Shipping Lines," St. Paul's Steamship Co, Pacific Marine Review, June, 1912 "Earling Visit to Seattle, Snoqualmie Tunnel Work to Resume," Railway Employes Magazine, June, 1912 Articles of Incorporation, Great Falls Terminal Railway Co., April 18, 1912 "Three Forks to Radersburg Line to Start, JQ Adams Interested," Engineering and Contracting, March 20, 1912 "Surveys Begin from Three Forks to Helena," Engineering and Contracting, February 14, 1912 "Joint Milwaukee GN Line East of Lewistown, Montana," Engineering and Contracting, January 10, 1912 W.H. Ailport, "Hospital Relief Associations," Illinois Medical Journal, January, 1912 Jere Murphy, "The Comical History of Montana," (New York, 1912). 1911 J.H. Prior, "Design of Bridge Abutments," Railway Age, October 27, 1911 Railway Age, "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," October 13, 1911 United States vs. Union Pacific RR Co., June 24, 1911, 188 F. Rep. 102 "NP and Milwaukee Support Seattle, Great Northern Does Not," Freight: the Shipper's Forum, May, 1911 K.C. Weedin, "Methods and Some Costs of Construction of the St. Paul Pass Tunnel," Engineering & Contracting, April 5, 1911 "Exhibit Car on the NP," Railway Journal, March, 1911 New York Times, "Puget Sound Pays Dividend," February 25, 1911 "Exhibit Cars on the CM & Puget Sound," Railway Journal, February, 1911 "Report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Industry of the State of Montana," 1908, 1909, 1910 -- notes on railroad contributions, Milwaukee line up the Swan River, Deer Lodge bought the property for the Milwaukee shops and gave it to the railroad 1910 G.W. Ogden, "A World Afire: Heroes In the Burning of the Northwestern Forests," Everybody's Magazine, December, 1910 "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Paid for Pacific Extension out of its Own Pocket," The Ticker and Investment Digest, October, 1910 Engineering News, "The Design and Erection of the Missouri River Bridge for the Pacific Extension; C.M.&St.P. Ry," August 25, 1910 MoBridge -- Railway Age Article, June 10, 1910 Industrial Progress, "Our Oriental Trade," April, 1910. Falloff in 1905-1909 William Thorton Prosser, "A New Transcontinental Railway," Pacific Monthly, February, 1910 New York Times, "St. Paul Earnings," January 7, 1910. The Timberman, "Milwaukee Land Company Holdings in Couer d'Alene District, and Use of Oil on Locomotives," January, 1910 "Financial Report, CM&StP," The Standard Financial Quarterly, 1910, 1:1. "The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound road has done more in the past two years in the way of bringing actual settlers to Montana than has been accomplished in the past 25 years." 1909 New York Times, "Puget Sound Paying its Way," December 9, 1909. The Journal of the American Asiasiatic Association, "Reply to Communication of Howard Ayers," December, 1909. "Reopening of our ports to Asiatic trade; now open to CP and CM&StP at Seattle and Tacoma; others will likely soon follow." The National Builder, "Design of a Log Railway Station, CM&St.P Ry," December, 1909 -- the Musselshell, Montana Depot The Railway Conductor, "Record Breaker," December, 1909 -- Silk and Salmon Train run Henry Hyde, "The War With the Mountains," The Technical World Magazine, December, 1909 "New Japanese Liners and the St. Paul," The American Marine Engineer, December, 1909 "St. Paul Purchases Terminal Property in Winnipeg, also, owns rail line at Bridger," Engineering and Contracting, November 24, 1909 "St. Paul Purchases Terminal Property in North Portland, Reaches Agreement with NP for rights from Tacoma to Portland," Engineering and Contracting, November 24, 1909 New York Times, "No Puget Sound Reports," October 4, 1909. "A Remarkable Piece of Railway Construction," American Industry, September 15, 1909 C.M. Keys, "The Battle of the Railroads: the Meaning of the Milwaukee," World's Work, August, 1909 Elliott Flower, "Opening Up the Northwest: A record in Railroad Building by the Latest Line to the Pacific Coast," Putnam's Magazine, July, 1909 "The Pacific Coast Extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Freight: The Shipper's Forum, July, 1909 "Coast Extension of the St. Paul Open," Railway World, June 25, 1909 "Derrick Cars and Bridge Erection on the CM&St.P," Engineering News, June 24, 1909 "Line Surveys up the Blackfoot, the Flathead Line," Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, June, 1909 "New Coal Lines, to Canada and up the St. Maries River," The Railway World, May 21, 1909 "NP to Shorten Line Between Missoula and Spokane," Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, May, 1909 William H. Day, "The Story of the Taft Tunnel Gang," Association Men, April, 1909 "A Last Spike Driven near Missoula," Engineering News-Record, April 1, 1909 "Last Spike Driven at Missoula March 29, 1909," New International Encyclopedia, 1915 "Large Wooden Trestles on the CM&St.P," Engineering News-Record, March 25, 1909 "Milwaukee Company Finishes up Big Bridge Contract for St. Paul," The Iron Age, March 11, 1909 Scientific American, "The Extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway to the Pacific Coast," February 20, 1909, page 151. "St. Paul Tunnel Completed," Engineering News-Record, February 18, 1909 "NP to Bore Big Tunnel, Purchases Taft Power Plant from CM&St.P.," Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, February, 1909 "St. Paul After Oriental Traffic; St. Paul Merger Financed," Railway World, January 15, 1909 "Great Northern Enters Tacoma on NP," Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, January, 1909 "Work on the Railroads in Montana," -- details on St. Paul Tunnel, Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, January, 1909 Montana, Idaho, Washington State Tunnels Last Spikes MoBridge -- Record of Construction Record of PCE Construction, Complete Record, 1915 Valuation Study Breakdown by Section: Valuation Sections 1a-1c Moreau Branch Cheyenne Branch Valuation Sections North Dakota, PCE Mainline New England Branch, Valuation Sections North Dakota 3 and SD 4 Montana Valuation Section 1, State line to Harlowton Montana Valuation Section 2, Harlowton to Lombard Montana Valuation Section 3, Lombard to Butte Montana Valuation Section 4, Butte to St. Paul Pass Montana Valuation Section 5, Harlowton to Lewistown Montana Valuation Section 6, Grass Range Line Montana Valuation Section 7, Roy Line Montana Valuation Section 8, Lewistown to Great Falls Montana Valuation Section 9, Great Falls to Agawam Montana Valuation Section 10, Ringling to Dorsey Idaho Valuation Section 1, Idaho Mainline Idaho Valuation Section 2, Plummer Jct to Manito Jct Idaho Valuation Section 3, St. Maries to Elk River Branch Idaho Valuation Section 4, Coeur d'Alene Branch Idaho Valuation Section 5, Pend 'Oreille Branch Washington Valuation Section 1, Idaho State Line to Maple Valley Washington Valuation Sections 4, 5, 5a, Maple Valley to Seattle Washington Valuation Section 7, Marcellus Branch Washington Valuation Section 7A, Moses Lake Branch Washington Valuation Section 8, Hanford Branch Washington Valuation Section 9, Everett Branch Washington Valuation Section 10, Enumclaw Branch Washington Valuation Section 11, Grays Harbor Branch Construction Record, Big Blackfoot Railway Construction Record, Gallatin Valley Railway Construction Record, Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor Railway Construction Record, Milwaukee Terminal Railway Construction Record, Bellingham & Northern Railway Construction Record, Seattle, Port Angeles & Western Railway Construction Record, Tacoma Eastern Railway McGarvie, Mark. "A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF IMMIGRANT CONTRACT LABOR ON THE MILWAUKEE ROAD." Railroad History 1998 (179): 69-87. Joint Line Talks with NP Dead, New York Times, June 26, 1909 "The Milwaukee Hospital Association," The Railway Surgical Journal, June, 1909 "The News About the Union Pacific," American Review of Reviews, June, 1909 "The St. Paul Hospital System," The Railway Surgical Journal, June, 1909 Engineering News, "Hydraulic Construction of Large Embankments on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway," May 27, 1909 1908 New York Times, "Harriman Agrees to Railway Truce," December 2, 1908. "Heavy Bridge Work on CMStP," Railway and Engineering Review, December 5, 1908 Confidential Letter, re: Analysis of Milwaukee Road, H.E. Cooper to John D. Rockefeller, November 6, 1908 "Work of CM&St.P in Seattle and Tacoma, Hospital in Seattle," Railway Age, October 30, 1908 "Progress on the St. Paul Extension," Railway Age, October 9, 1908 "Obituary of Elbridge Beckler, Civil Engineer on PCE," also "Plans to build to Waterville, 120 miles north of Beverly, Washington," Railway Age, September 4, 1908 William Thorton Prosser, "Railways Divide a New Kingdom" The Technical World, August, 1908 "GN, Others, to Get Out of Steamship Business," The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association, August 15, 1908 1907 "The Great Northern," "The Northern Pacific," and the "Chicago, Burlington & Quincy," Railway Age, November 22, 1907 "The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Railway Age, September 30, 1907 "The Portland and Seattle Railroad," Railway Age, September 27, 1907 "Progress on the Western End of the St. Paul's Pacific Extension," Railway Age, September 20, 1907 "Earling Announces St. Paul to Operate Steamships," The American Marine Engineer, September, 1907 Jon Moen, Ellis Tallman, "The Bank Panic of 1907: The Role of Trust Companies," Journal of Economic History, 52:3, September, 1992 [password protected, copyright] "Chicago & Northwestern," Railway Age, August 23, 1907 "Railroad Work in the Lewiston, Idaho Country," Railway Age, August 20, 1907 "St. Paul Extension Work, Snoqualmie Tunnel to Begin Soon," Railway Age, August 16, 1907 "Progress on the Western End of the St. Paul's Pacific Extension," Railway Age, July 19, 1907 "Missouri River Bridge of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Mobridge, South Dakota," Railway Age, March 22, 1907 "Dakota Goes Down; Hill Won't Build Any More Liners," New York Times, March 8, 1907 Henry Hyde, "A Gray Dreamer," The Technical World, February, 1907 -- puff piece on Hill Sheldon Bebee, "Putting the Mountains to Work," The Technical World, February, 1907 -- Harriman and Electrification "Labor Laws in a Tunnel," Railway Age, January 11, 1907 "The St. Paul's Coast Extension," Railway Age, January 4, 1907 1906 "Funds for the St. Paul's Extension," Railway World, December 21, 1906 "Route of the St. Paul's Coast Extension," Railway World, December 14, 1906 "Standard Oil and the Railroads," Railway World, November 23, 1906 "Railroad Rivalry in the West," Railway World, October 26, 1906 "Dropped into the Earth," Fuel Magazine, October 2, 1906 Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of CM&StP of Montana, August 31, 1906, from "Ravalli County" to "Missoula County." "St. Paul to Operate Eleven Steamships," The American Marine Engineer, August, 1906 "Important Railroad Projects," The United States Investor, April 28, 1906 "St. Paul Rumored to Operate Steamships," The American Marine Engineer, March, 1906 "The Soo Line and the Hill Roads Compared," Railway Age, February 22, 1906 H. Roger Grant, "Seeking the Pacific: the Chicago & Northwestern's Plans to Reach the West Coast," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, April, 1990 [copyright, password protected] 1905 Railway Age, "E.J. Pearson Appointed Chief Engineer of the Pacific Railway," December 22, 1905 Articles of Incorporation of CM&St.P of Montana, December 16, 1905 Railway Age, "Announcement of CM&St.P to Build West," December 1, 1905 Railway Age," Railroad Location in Valleys or on Ridges," November 22, 1905 Railway Age, "Incorporation of the Pacific Railroad," to build from Wallula to Tacoma and Seattle, November 10, 1905 Railway Age, "Bellingham Bay & British Columbia Ry to be Acquired by CP," August 25, 1905 Railway Age, "Railway Movements on the Puget Sound," September 16, 1904. Purchases of waterfront land in Tacoma and Seattle, mean the prospective entrance of another great railway from the East, presumably, It is thought, the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul GN Route Profile 1901 The Railway and Engineering Review, "New C.M.&St.P. Ore Dock at Escanaba, Michigan," March 16, 1901 1887 "St. Paul Buys Terminal Frontage in Seattle," The_Railway News, May 28, 1887