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The first two "People of the Road" sculptures in the Menomonee Valley. A series of metal sculptures taking shape in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley honors the men and women who worked at a now-lost ...
William J. Quinn was the chairman and CEO of Chicago-based Milwaukee Road railroad in the 1970s and also held top executive posts at two other rail lines. Quinn, 104, died of complications from ...
The Milwaukee Road, the colloquial name for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Co., was founded in 1847 in Wisconsin as the Milwaukee and Waukesha Railroad. The Milwaukee ...
which for years had bore a marker for all railroad travelers to see. Pearson, the Milwaukee's chief engineer, had hailed the completion of the road some months before as simply "the completion of ...
FINANCIAL.; OPINION. FOR THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS OF THE MILWAUKEE AND MINNESOTA RAILROAD COMPANY. Share full article Nov. 18, 1862 Credit... The New York Times Archives ...
Rising out of Chicago was another railroad providing a critical route to St. Paul, Minnesota. The Chicago & North Western didn't stretch as far west as the Milwaukee Road, but its path through ...
Bill Roepke grew up playing near, to his grandmother's dismay, the railroad tracks in the Menomonee Valley. Some of his ancestors worked for the Milwaukee Road. Roepke says as now an almost 50 ...
The medical examiner was called out to the scene of a crash on Milwaukee's north ... when the vehicle veered off the road and collided with the bottom of a railroad bridge.
Metra is repairing the deteriorated at-grade railroad crossing, village officials said. The project requires the full closure of Milwaukee Avenue at the crossing. Crews implemented the road ...