Milwaukee Road Volumes I-III


Milwaukee Road Volumes I-III (Combo DVD video)Experience The Milwaukee Road of the early 1970s as Pentrex takes you on a three-volume video adventure along the Rocky Mountain Division! Explore the entire electrified Milwaukee Road line from Harlowton, Montana to Avery, Idaho in this exciting three-volume combo DVD. Extraordinary films taken by Ed Stimpson have been carefully selected and computer enhanced, and combined with incredible stereo sound recorded on the Milwaukee Road by Don Hunter. Pentrex has painstakingly researched the Milwaukee's electrics in order to bring you the most accurate, factual video ever produced on these marvelous machines. It's some of the most dynamic railroading in the United States!

Volume I: Electric Power on the Milwaukee Road - Alberton, Avery and the St. Paul Pass
Pentrex begins its incredible vintage series on the popular Milwaukee Road and its fascinating electric motive power with a look at Boxcabs and Little Joes hard at work on the Rocky Mountain Division in Alberton, Montana and from Avery, Idaho through the St. Paul Pass. Highlights of this 1972 footage include a profile of the impressive General Electric-built Boxcab motors which entered service in 1915, and the gutsy Little Joes which joined the roster in 1950.

We'll see both of these powerful and efficient motors in action hauling freight up the 1.7 percent grades on the breathtaking St. Paul Pass, sailing across the majestic trestles, diving into tunnels, and working in the yards at Alberton and Avery. This was the Milwaukee Road at its best, just prior to the end of electrification in June of 1974. (47 Minutes)

Volume II: Harlowton to Butte
Pentrex continues its trilogy of films about the Milwaukee Road's electrified Rocky Mountain Division with a detailed tour of the eastern portion of the route. The line from Harlowton to Butte, Montana saw plenty of action during the 1970s. There are thrilling scenes of electric power hard at work hauling freight over the area's challenging grades.

We begin our journey with a look at the non-electrified line that ran from Harlowton to Lewistown, Montana to view the diesel powered action on the Rocky Mountain Division. the yards at Harlowton linked the electrified division with the non-electrified line to the east and you'll visit the yards to catch the action there.

Highlights of our tour include a look at Vendome Loop and a ride in the cab of a Little Joe on theway from magnificent Pipestone Pass to Butte. The Little Joes and Boxcabs that once conquered these awesome grades represented electric power at its finest. The drama of machines battling spectacular terrain is vividly portrayed in this exciting tribute to the mighty Milwaukee Road. (41 Minutes)

Volume III: The Rocky Mountain Division
Pentrex takes you on a journey of exploration along the Milwaukee Road's electrified Rocky Mountain Division in 1973. This historic footage was shot just months before electrified service was replaced by diesel power. It covers the entire 440-mile route from Harlowton, Montana to Avery, Idaho.

You'll get a close look at the mighty Boxcabs and gutsy Little Joes that pulled freight across this beautiful territory, braving steep grades and spanning awesome gorges. Then you'll follow a work train and its crew for several days as it repairs track and replacesrail. Highlights of our adventure include a trip to the busy Lombard area, where Milwaukee track crossed the Burlington Northern.

From mountain prairies to steep, tree covered peaks, the Rocky Mountain Division was indeed a breathtaking sight, and now the spectacular scenery and nonstop Milwaukee Road action is available for your viewing pleasure! (78 Minutes)







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Video Comments:
Zebraguy626 (September 26, 2008 at 12:30 am)
it looks so funny to have seen the diesel cabs with the overhead electric...here in the east its either one or another. I can see how you miss those old milwaukee locs.
359realpete (August 25, 2008 at 9:08 pm)
sure wish someone would have video of the state line route i live 2 miles from the old line and all i can do is use my imagination of what used to roll along the right of way
EvilFartHead69 (June 15, 2008 at 2:44 am)
10,000 viewer!
RENFEMikado (June 7, 2008 at 3:58 pm)
let's see a Pentrex video about the east end of the MILW, partcularly the CTH&SE in Illinois and Indiana.
Harlowboy (January 19, 2008 at 5:52 pm)
Wow.
I grew up in Harlowton in the 70's my father was a switchman for the Milwaukee. I remember folling my father throught the yards in Harlowton, I crossed that bridge several time with my father going to the roundhouse. Some of it is still there in Harlow, but a lot is gone. How cool to visit it again.....Those were the days.
gyralih (December 28, 2007 at 1:28 am)
Take a guess,Where do you think TMR got the power to runElectric trains over 2 Mountain ranges?Not a trick question.HGK
Isochest (November 11, 2007 at 1:42 am)
Wouldn't it be nice though, to see heavy freight moved by electric traction in the US: Powered by 100% US sourced energy: Coal, Hydro, Wind, and possibly solar! I'm English not American, but would love to see energy security like this not just in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but in the USA, too! It's not perverse, but patriotic! I just want to see a stable world: Don't all sane compassionate civilised and good people want this?
RamFett (October 10, 2007 at 3:46 pm)
Man,I miss the MILW. It was already gone when I was born, but as a kid I would still see their engines run through town pulling SOO Line trains. I still see the old orange and black SOO bandidt scheme on GP38-2 switchers in the West Milwaukee CP yard from time to time. The electric stuff is interesting and all, but I wish Pentrex would make a film about Milwaukee's diesel freight operations in the midwest.
cygnusixion (October 3, 2007 at 4:32 am)
In addtion to higher taxes, another problem with electric is that those in power for some sick reason feel that using electricity in the U.S. is un-american and are hell bent on using Oil! Nothing makes me cringe more than watching a diesel loco moving a train under live catenarys, kinda retarded if you ask me.
Alco83 (September 26, 2007 at 5:31 pm)
Railroads, at least here in the U.S. are making a fantastic comeback thanks to overcrowded highways and gas prices. They haven't seen such astronomical levels of freight since the days of WWII and presently are having trouble keeping up with demand. In any event, this short Pentex clip is fantastic, some very historic video shot of Milwaukee's Lines West.

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