What a centerfold! Very nice issue. This is what I hoped to see more of when I became a member of the MRHA. Thanks to the TMR crew for great issue! If you can afford it, become a member. If not, pick up a copy of the latest issue. You won't be disappointed.
Note there are a few errors. Such as the photo where a train has passed a supposed "track geometry car." That happens to be belong to the Electrification Department and it's one of the trolley maintenance cars. Boxcab E50
I'm just glad to have a good LW focus in an issue. A few of the last issues since I became a member are mostly LE focus. It gets annoying.I'll read it in more detail someday, but I have so much homework to do nightly. Remind me, why did I go back to school?!?
I wonder if TMR would take an article about what's left. Remnants. I spent many miles of driving all over MT, and I know it's not exhaustive, but I have some pretty decent stuff. I'd prolly start with the Belt Creek area?
Sorry, but I am somewhat new to all this and this may be a stupid question but what is the MRHA and what is TMR mag.? Wanting to expand my knowledge of the hobby I am always looking for viewpoints on expanding ideas. THANKS!
MRHA is the Milwaukee Road Historical Association (http://www.mrha.com). TMR is short for "The Milwaukee Railroader", the association's quarterly magazine.
Hemi, Dont expect a warm reception. I asked Mike about that same idea at trainfest this fall. He said they had all they needed. Keep posting here!!!
Hi - The latest centerfold article in TMR was quite a find. We found Philip Johnson's manuscript (that the article was taken from) at the University of Montana Library in the archives section last December when we were searching for books and materials for our Railroading in Central Montana research library. The manuscript had slumbered in the library's archives for forty years. The full manuscript is 135 pages long and was written in two parts. The second part is about the traction units used on LW. We pitched the manuscript to Bob Storozuk (President of the MRHA) and he was very excited and immediately pressed to have the article published ASAP in TMR. If you want to read the full manuscript, contact Prof. Donna McCrea at the library's archive department to arrange for a copy (go the Mike and Maureen Library at the University of Montana's web site). It is really cheap (just the cost of copying). The full manuscript is a great read. TMR did not publish the second section of the manuscript because (and Bob and Mike were right here) it is very similar to Noel Holley's book. Philip Johnson was also a photographer who used a German high end camera. The library has over 4,000 photographs and (mostly) negatives of western railroads that Johnson took. MRHA is planning to publish a book of his 300 Milwaukee Road LW photos THIS FALL so look for it. If anyone is interested in other western railroads (including the Feather Route in Northern California) you can look at the negatives at the University of Montana Library's Archives room AND on-line. They are magnificent photos and are not expensive to get reproduced - the Library can convert them to digital images on site. The photo collection is very well organized as is worth spending an afternoon at the library reviewing the photos or a couple of days online. There are some really great photos, for example, of the White Sulphur Springs, Yellowstone Park and Pacific Railroad and the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railroad to say nothing of the GN and the NP. The photos date from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Enjoy! John Shontz, Upper Musselshell Historic Society, Harlowton, Montana
Wow! Great centerfold! The neatest photo to me, other than that one, is the photo looking east from Lomard of the Olympian about to enter tunnel 9. Wow! Just, Wow!!! I almost wonder if the centerfold is the same train featured in the Ron Nixon (Vanishing Vistas postcard) shot? Same cars at least eh?
