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The Milwaukee Road |
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Amtrak's Hiwawatha Service operates between Chicago and Milwaukee |
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| A Sunday morning and an impulsive decision to visit Milwaukee - Amtrak's Hiawatha departing Chicago for Milwaukee - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| British phonebox at Glenview (left); basic shelter on the platform at Sturtevant (right) - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Viewed from the train - coal fired power station and docks - Wisconsin "USA by Rail" gives little information on the Hiawatha Service and without a map it was not possible to determine these locations - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Amtrak Hiawatha stops at Milwaukee Airport (left) before terminating at downtown Milwaukee's Intermodal Station (right) - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Amtrak's Hiawatha at Milwaukee - there are seven return services daily (Monday to Friday) - six at weekends - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Amtrak Horizon passenger car at Milwaukee Intermodal Station - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Henry S Reuss Federal Plaza, the "Blue Building", Milwaukee - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Reflections in Milwaukee during a short walk round the CBD prior to returning to Chicago - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Impressive fire escapes (left); Wisconsin Telephone Company (right) - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| US icons - Wells Fargo Bank and AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph Company) - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Hyatt Regency Milwaukee (left); Milwaukee County Court House above the tunnels of West Kilbourn Avenue (right) - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| North Riverwalk Way - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Milwaukee County Historical in W Kilbourn Avenue with the Milwaukee Center dominating City Hall (left); Riverwalk Way (right) - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Near deserted streets on a summer Sunday afternoon - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Milwaukee River and Pere Marquette Park (right) - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Milwaukee River - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Milwaukee City Hall is dominated by the Milwaukee Center Office Tower - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Amtrak Hiawatha crossing the Menomonee River near its confluence with the Milwaukee River - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| North and south bound Hiawatha respectively on grade crossing on North Plankinton Avenue, Milwaukee. The south bound train is headed by a "cabbage" - a converted F40PH which, with the engine removed serves as both a baggage car and cab control unit - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Amtrak Hiawatha service arriving as it crosses the Menomonee River in Milwaukee. The P42 #122 on the point provides the power and a "cabbage" brings up the rear - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Horizon and Amfleet cars in front of the baggage cab car - not a locomotive but an un-powered converted F40PH at the rear of the train - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The east-bound Amtrak Empire Builder heading out of Milwaukee with two GE P42s on the point - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Empire Builder at Chicago (left). Cab control and baggage car - a converted F40PH known as a "cabbage" - at Chicago Union Station (right) - VIDEO CAPTURES Malcolm McCrow | |
