Soo Line on the Milwaukee Road, Part One of Three
The Soo Line had trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road (Wisconsin Division, Twelfth Subdivision) to gain access to Milwaukee.
In 1977, I followed a train westward on the line between North Milwaukee, roughly, to Rugby Junction where the train switched over to the Soo main. I have one shot after that, near Slinger, Wisconsin, on the Soo Line itself. I’ll split this up over three installments.
In this first post then, we initially see the train just west of North Milwaukee, near Havenwoods; I was standing near the intersection of N. 60th Street and N. Mill Road. The bridge in the background supports a Chicago & North Western line. In the third image, the train is crossing over N. 76th Street, just south of Good Hope Road; in the fourth at the Granville Depot. And in the final image we see the train near Boundary Road, perhaps—this one location is uncertain.
Five images by Richard Koenig; taken February 26th 1977.














