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There are just a couple days left to ride the last coal-fired steam locomotive at the Milwaukee County Zoo—one of the days being this coming Saturday, Sept. 14.
The Milwaukee County Zoo is getting rid of its steam locomotives for environmental reasons. Train rides aren't ending. The zoo plans to acquire two new, custom-built diesel engines ...
The Milwaukee County Zoo's popular zoo train will undergo some changes this year. The train's two steam locomotive engines will leave the zoo; they've been sold to the Riverside & Great Northern ...
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The Milwaukee ... "Since 1992, the Zoo’s four locomotives — two steam and two diesel — have powered the Train to carry more than 400,000 guests annually throughout our ...
Ward is friends with Milwaukee County Zoo train engineer Ken Ristow. He asked Ristow if the zoo's two 1958 steam locomotives could be used as guinea pigs to test the biomass fuel.
A gorgeously illustrated ad for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway (The Milwaukee Road) was headlined, ... 100 years ago: Milwaukee Railroad touts electric locomotives ...
With the dawn of the diesel-electric age upon the railroad industry, General Motors developed its own line of locomotives. Construction of an all-new Electro-Motive locomotive assembly plant in ...
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad – a.k.a, the Milwaukee Road – was the second transcontinental rail line through Missoula and the first to go. Plenty of longtime ...