The Milwaukee Road History

“The Milwaukee Road was a family--a big, sometimes happy, sometimes turbulent, but never boring family! A family of men and women united in moving people and goods across some of the most difficult terrain and through some of the most hostile weather in the United States, day in, day out, in peacetime and in war, and often at great sacrifice in health, sanity, and personal life. Railroading is one of man's most arduous professions, and like "rails" everywhere, Milwaukee railroaders gave 110 percent. For the quality of life we in the Pacific Northwest have enjoyed over the past nine decades, the men and women of The Milwaukee Road are among those we can thank!”
-- Kurt E. Armbruster, Author, Orphan Road, the Railroad Comes to Seattle, 1853-1911