Transcisco Rail Services, Inc. has taken over what was the
Milwaukee’s very extensive shop facilities and yard for a
rail car repair operation.
This extends from the shop areas proper in the north end of
Miles City all the way south to include storage on the track
that departed south toward Forsyth (with railroad cars
standing on the bridge over the Tongue River and on the
siding that used to serve a grain elevator and other
businesses at the south end of town). The transfer table
and shop buildings are shown here.
One can see the extent of the operation in this photo which
is looking north along the old RoW as it traveled north past
the shop area.
The extent to which the operation extended to the south is
shown in this photo of the area immediately behind the old
passenger depot.
This building is something of an outlier at the west end of
the complex and appears to be a storage building of some
sort.
Here is a photo of a large covered hopper that must have
been involved in an interesting accident!
The old
Milwaukee boarding house:
701 Gordon Street
The depot.
View down the mainline to the south.
South of the depot is a building that matches McCarter’s
description of the remodeled old freight depot.
This old Milwaukee signal is mounted by
the entry door of an art coop that ooks like an old freight
depot
(I took multiple shots of
this signal with an eye to modeling one at sometime; if the
anyone is interested, they are available.)
Southwest of
Miles City the third of the four span truss bridges McCarter
writes of is visible in the distance to the right or west of
I-94. McCarter doesn’t mention a name and perhaps it
doesn’t really have one but because of its proximity to old
Fort Keogh I think of it as the Ft. Keogh Bridge.
