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There were also parts of the country that saw "the last electric train"... transitioned to diesel! By 1920, the Milwaukee Road was running 645 miles of electrif
by floren 4y ago
There were also parts of the country that saw "the last electric train"... transitioned to diesel! By 1920, the Milwaukee Road was running 645 miles of electrified railroad between Montana and Tacoma, WA (there was a 216 mile stretch they operated on with steam locomotives). They ran it up until the 1970s!
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- walrus01 4y agoThe Milwaukee Road is also a good business school case study on what happens when a company experiences: a) overburden with debt b) deferred maintenance spending on physical plant that's pushed further out all the time until it becomes catastrophically bad
- Aloha 4y agoThey also screwed up the accounting on the pacific extension, and double entered expenses for it - the only profitable part of the road for years was the pacific extension.