Aug 24, 2024 · The most impressive engineering feat by any western railroad in conquering the Cascade Mountain range to reach Seattle, Washington was Milwaukee Road's Snoqualmie Pass grade. The tunnel, the longest on the entire railroad at well over 2 miles in length, was not opened until five years after the original route commenced operations.

Oct 11, 2013 · In 1915, a two-lane road over Snoqualmie Pass was built near the old Milwaukee road’s surface route, called the Sunset Highway, creating a permanent transportation corridor connecting eastern and western Washington.

The most impressive engineering feat by any western railroad in conquering the Cascade Mountain range to reach Seattle, Washington was the Milwaukee Road's Snoqualmie Pass Tunnel.

January 24, 1915 – First train through the Snoqualmie Tunnel, Olympian; March 5, 1920. Milwaukee Road officials and press party inspection train from Seattle to Cle Elum commemorating the opening of the 207-mile Coast Division electrification; March 6, 1920 – Face-off between electric bi-polar and steam locomotive Kent, WA.

The Laconia railroad yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway (C.M.&P.S.Ry.) was located at the summit of the Cascade High Line through Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State.

The Milwaukee Road ran through Snoqualmie Pass, and its rail bed forms the backbone of the east-west trail route through the Mountains to Sound Greenway. The South Cle Elum Depot and rail yard house exhibits showcasing remnants of the Milwaukee Road railroad that ran from Chicago to Tacoma.

Apr 14, 2021 · Milwaukee Road used some of the first electrified trains which traveled westward through their own protected tunnels to speed travel. Their train, The Olympian, was the first passenger train to go through the Snoqualmie tunnel in January 1915.

Sep 26, 2013 · Does anyone know if the Milwaukee Road depot at Goshen, Washington, originally built by the BB&BC in 1891 was constructed with a hipped or gable roof? It was 20x40 feet and likely was the same design as the depot at Strandell.

The Milwaukee Road grew into one of the largest railroads in the country. At its peak the railroad stretched more than 10,000 miles from Louisville, Kentucky, to Puget Sound, serving most of the important Midwestern cities such as Chicago, the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, Omaha, Kansas City, …

Oct 29, 2024 · Sitting on the historic Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul-Pacific Railroad nicknamed the "Milwaukee Road", this 287-mile trail runs from Cedar Falls near North Bend (railroad milepost 2136) to the Idaho border (railroad milepost 1850).