100 Years of the Milwaukee Road

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of transcontinental rail service on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, to and from Seattle, it is the 3rd and final transcontinental to link Seattle with the middle west.  It is also the only transcontinental to have pulled up its tracks.  The Milwaukee Road as previously noted was not exactly the best run outfit around, and in fact it was is almost inconceivable how bad it's decisions were in the 1970's.  100 years ago, nobody knew what was to come, so it must have been gratifying to the folks in Seattle, that they had three links to continent, indeed the railroads were king in those days.