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Ride the North Shore Line Electroliners! Early promotional advertisement for the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee electrified between Milwaukee and Chicago that competed with not only parallel service between the same cities offered by the Milwaukee Road and Chicago and Northwestern, but, also with highways. In the 1940’s, the North Shore ordered two sets of high speed, streamlined train sets called the ‘Electroliners’, that even had a dining car where the famous “Electroburgers” were served. Competition was always tough, and the railway went into receivership sever- al times, finally ending in its total shut down in 1962.


The Union Pacific’s City of Portland, Eastbound at Kemmerer, Wyoming Union Pacific’s crack Domeliner between Chicago and Portland is heading east- bound into the early sun on this cold winter morning in 1961. Note the lead unit for the train was a Milwaukee Road E series unit -The Milwaukee, who operated the train between Chicago and Omaha, contributed its share of locomotives and passenger equipment about equal to the mileage the trains ran on that railroad. The train survived until the advent of Amtrak, May 1, 1971, and later, service was restored by Amtrak over the line on a train called the “Pioneer”, which ultimately was discontinued. Today, dozens of UP freight trains still operate on this route daily.


A Soo Line Holiday Scene This artist rendition of a Soo Line train running in a rural setting at Christmas time was on the cover of then Soo Line President Dennis Cavanaugh’s Christmas card in the late 1980s.The Soo Line is now the Canadian Pacific, and possibly, the little rural setting here was part of Soo’s op- erations in Wisconsin which was first acquired by the Wisconsin Central in 1987, and later, the Canadian National in 2001.


The Milwaukee Road’s Olympian After completion of the Milwaukee’s Pacif- ic Coast extension in the early 1900’s, they provided passenger service by two crack passenger trains, the “Olympian” (later to be named the Olympian Hi- awatha), and another secondary daily train, the “Columbian”. This is an early Milwaukee advertisement for the “Olympian”, headed up with then new “Bi Po- lar” electric locomotive, rolling through their mountainous electrified territory. The Milwaukee was the only western railroad to use overhead electric power for a several hundred miles over the two main mountain regions


A Pioneer Zephyr Merry Christmas The Burlington Railroad’s first Zephyr, named the “Pioneer Zephyr”, served as a prototype and name for what was to become dozens of midwest and western trains called the “Zephyrs”. The Pioneer made a famous dawn to dusk run between Chicago and Denver on the CB&Q shortly after its 1934 debut, breaking all known speed records. The Pioneer would later be used on regional CB&Q trains (pictured here), and re- tired in the mid 1960s. Today, its on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.


Passenger Service on the Bangor and Aroostook Before the advent of air and highway travel in Maine, the B&A provided the life line for travel in the state. The “Aroostook Flyer” and this train, the “Potatoland Special”, provid- ed twice daily service between Bangor and Northern Maine. Here, the south- bound Potatoland Special is passing through “Northern Maine Junction”, near Bangor in the early 1950s The BAR trains connected, with through cars, with the Maine Central at the old Bangor Union station, which operated between Bangor and Boston


New Power for the Frisco The Frisco, a southern-southwest carrier (now a part of the BNSF) was an early buyer of new power from Electro Motive Divi- sion of General Motors for their “Fast Freight Service”, This is a late 1960’s advertisement by General Motors for their new power used on “Frisco Fast Freights”.


Listen to the jingle, the Rumble and the Roar, as she glides along the woodlands, on the hills and by the shore These are the opening words of the now famous song, the “Wabash Cannonball”. Yes, there really was a “Wabash Cannonball”. The train operated daily between St. Louis and Detroit on the old “Wabash Railroad” (acquired by the Norfolk and Western in the late 1960’s.) .. The train lasted until April 30th, 1971, when Amtrak took over. Here, the Wabash Cannonball awaits departure for Detroit from St. Louis Union station on a summer morning in 1961.


Along the Monon, the Road of Progress. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, the Monon, under the Presidency of John W. Barriger, became one of the first all dieselized railroads and upgraded their passenger service with newly rebuilt and refurbished equipment, operating between Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville. Barriger engaged renown rail artist Howard Fogg (who died in 2001), to do a series of paintings depicting the “Modern Monon” in Action, in- cluding this passenger train speeding through a wintry Indiana farmland land- scape.


Dashing in the Snow Two Minnesota Commercial GE B39-”Dash 8” locomo- tives await a call to duty on the “Ready Track” in St. Paul on a cold winter af- ternoon .. Built in 1989 for LMX leasing, MCR acquired three of these loco- motives in 2012 and rebuilt and repainted them at their shops in St. Paul.


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HISTORIC VIDEOS AND COLLECTIONS


Midwest Milwaukee Memories is a collection of over 130 color slides, from the late 1950’s through the mid 1970’s, from the collection of John Gohmann. You’ll see lots of action around Marion and Cedar Rapids, where John grew up, including Alcos, FM, and EMD power of the era, and many also of the “Cities” passenger trains which traversed the Milwaukee between Chicago and Oma- ha. There are also shots in other parts of Iowa, Illinois, Chicago, the Twin Cities and Milwaukee of freight and passenger and switching operations, with a variety of “covered wagons”, new and older EMD pow- er, and more. Narrated by John, this is value priced at just $7.95, plus shipping.


Special offer -visit our website at www.railmode.com and order one or more of our other classic rail videos, including the travelogue for the Milwaukee’s Olympian Hiawatha, the GN Empire Builder, the Wabash Blue Bird, or any others and receive 10% off your entire order, and, free shipping for any orders over $25.00. Also, a more recent production of approximately 16 minutes, “The Value of Railroads to America”, is a 2009 educational production, containing many run bys of modern freight and Amtrak trains in an educational format is priced at just $4.00 with any order.


The very last “City of Everywhere” is preparing to leave Omaha Station eastbound on May 1, 1971 about 8 am. After arriving two hours late off the UP (delayed largely due to last train “farewells” along the “Overland Route”). I rode the very last west· bound Cities Train from Chicago to Omaha the night before and bid goodbye to many old working friends, including the engineer Frank Connors of Perry, Iowa. The end of an era. - John Gohmann


Original onboard Stationary Sets of Amtrak’s Empire Builder in the Cascades, and the former Pioneer passing by Mutinomah Falls, with envelopes, still in shrink wrap, while they last, just $4.00 a set plus postage. A true collectors item. Also available in color prints up to 11x17, or Christmas or every day note cards. Cards at regular card prices, call for pricing on prints and posters.


KROMER CAPS Winter and Three Season In Original, Rancher, Flexible and Ida Versions THREE NEW BOOKS!


A MUST FOR MODELERS, HISTORIANS, AD AGENCIES, RAILROADS, RAILFANS AND LIBRARIES OF ALL KINDS


SANTA FE CAR AND


LOCOMOTIVE PLANS Originally published by the Santa Fe in 1949 and 1953, this aprx. 11x 16 book contains photos and schematics of the railroads freight and passenger fleet of the era, including the famous war bonnet PA’s, F’s, E5, and cars of the great Chief fleet. Plus, diesel freight locomotives and cars of the same great era. Aprx. 40 pages, B&W, spiral bound.


$22.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling*


RAILROAD ADVERTISING DURING THE GREAT ERA TWO HUGE VOLUMES! - Nearly 1100 Pages!


Locomotive, Baldwin-Lima Hamilton, Fairbanks Morse, and ads from over sixty railroads and fallen flags, such as the Erie, Lackawanna, Wabash, Pennsylvania, New York Central, Soo Line, M&STL, Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Rock Island, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Burlington, Chicago and North Western, Rio Grande, Wabash, C&EI, L&N, Norfolk and Western and many more. And, ads promoting the freight and passenger trains of the Union Pacific, Canadian Pacif- ic, Canadian National, and Kansas City Southern - the survivor roads, as well... and, the Association of American Railroads and New England Railroads!


In an effort that has taken several years and several hundred hours, we have assembled the most comprehensive collection ever of mag- azine, journal and newspaper ads placed by the railroads from the 1920’s to the late 1960’s - almost 1100 of them. You’ll see ads for fa- mous passenger trains of the era, freight service, and ads of locomo- tive and carbuilders like ACF, Pullman, General Motors, American


Some of the best advertising agencies of the time were retained to produced inviting ads for passen- ger trains, freight service and locomotives and equipment of the GREAT ERA. See color schemes and interior and exterior pictures and renderings of many trains of yesteryear which provided the mainstay of transportation during this era.


We divided these into two separate volumes: Volume I - ALL COLOR, and Volume II - Black and White. The all color book is naturally more expensive, but, the multi color ads of the era are worth it. Each volume is perfectly bound with a heavy cover.


Volume I - ALL Color - Approximately 366 pages or impressions: $77.00 - plus shipping and handling of $4.00* Volume II - Black & White Approximately 765 pages or impressions: $36.00 - plus shipping and handling of $5.00* Order both for $102 plus $7.00 shipping and handling* *Normal UPS or US Mail ground service - Faster air or ground service is additional. ASK ABOUT LOWER PRICES ON DIGITAL EDITIONS OF RR ADVERTISING V1 & 2


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