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The Milwaukee Road In Color
Volume 5: Pacific Extension 1941-1961

By: William F. Strauss

Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2008
Hardcover, 128 pages, All Color

List Price: $59.95                                       Our Price: $47.96

Detailed captions along with rare color photography of the early Milwaukee electric operations make this a must have book.

Contents Include:

Introduction...3

The Seeds Of Lines West...4

Running Trains With Running Water...5

A Brief History Of The Milwaukee Road's Electrification...6

The Rocky Mountain Division...8
Riding The Columbian...8
Across The Division...18
Derailment Of The Olympian Hiawatha...50
The Division In Transition...53
A Final Look...62

The Gap...68

Wade Stevenson's Washington...72

The Coast Division...90
Seattle And Tacoma...90
Coast Division Power...110
A Final Look...118