A Railroad at Work - Milwaukee Road Promo Film 

If it makes you feel better, little Johnny was probably drafted into Vietnam

I grew up in Chicago. The Milwaukee Road line that goes out to Elgin and beyond was a mere 1000 feet from my bedroom window. This video show’s primarily steam locomotives and the earliest EMD diesel locomotives. So I would date this as right around 1939. One of our next door neighbors was a Milwaukee Road employee. He arranged for me to get a summertime job when I was a high school student in the 60s. It isn’t around anymore but there was a freight yard situated underneath the Central Avenue bridge. It handled LCL (less than carload) shipments for Montgomery Ward stores in the neighboring states. Wisconsin, both North and South Dakota’s. Around 1955 MILW took over as the connector railroad from The Chicago Northwestern to handle the Union Pacific passenger trains from the west coast when they reached Omaha.

​ @@thomasomeara4705 : I guessed it was made about 1946, as it says the company is nearly a hundred years old, and the Milwaukee Road was founded in 1847. Johnny looks about 7 or 8 to me, and it's poignant to think that, if he's alive today, he must be in his 80s. If you're right about 1939 of course that would put him in his 90s. I think he's the real star of the film. Of course this is the company's own promotional film, but it gave me the impression of a well-run professional organisation. I especially liked the idea of the tip cards, allowing ordinary workers to feel they could contribute. Yet it's sobering to think that within some 35 years of this film, the railway had completely collapsed. For an organisation of that size and complexity to fail, must have been absolutely devastating to a lot of people.

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What a nice piece of Milwaukee history, I’ve learned!

Truth be told they kinda shot themselves in the foot, it's a common business practice even today lol. Still, based railroad.

You are delusional, things are much “nicer” now.

@@tonyromano6220 Are they?

@@rickmiller1429 Yes and no, but it's still asinine to make such a comparison. The whole point of evolving generations is to make it easier for the succeeding generations, which some seem to either agree with or feel entitled to sabotage.

I died when he said that, lmao 😂😂 I don't know why.

Some perhaps. However, my dad far preferred the Milwaukee over the North Western believing the Milwaukee equipment to be newer and better and the service better overall.

@@toddinde. Also ironic how after 1955 the Union Pacific moved all their City Trains from the Chicago and Northwestern to the Milwaukee Road also with the same train of thought no pun intended.

@@brianmorgan5739 The UP made a good call. The Milwaukee was always a class act.

It’s definitely before 1948 when the new passenger cars came into service. It also doesn’t mention the war or postwar prosperity. Steam is primary. My guess would be 1941?

My best guess is 1938 to 1940 time frame. Steam locomotives still predominated and EMD had just brought out diesel electric which you can see in short segments of the video.

@@thomasomeara4705 Agreed!

Early 40’s - the FT’s shown being serviced were built ‘41-45.

"Labor does not contribute to profits"

Sadly, I do not know. Maybe early 50's?

Judging from the large number of active steam locomotives shown, I would guess no later than 1950.

I would guess early to mid 40’s, favoring early 40’s. An EMD FT A-B-B-A set us shown, which were built ‘41-45. An Alco DL 109 set is shown as well and they’re an early cab unit. I didn’t happen to notice any E7 units, which were built starting in ‘46. The boy at 11:19 is running a Lionel pre-war train set.

​@@damonm7541I'm going to say you're spot on with early 40s most likely 41 based on the FTs and guessing that promotional films such as this would have taken a secondary priority post December 7 41.

Thing is, you're in a public area on a train, while Google (I don't know why you limit it to only Google, practically the entire internet does so) is more in the private confines of your home or office, etc. etc. With internet business, it's more egregious because we give them all kinds of data while in the "privacy of our homes", in contrast to train travel where you're in a very social setting.

@@MilesL.auto-train4013 While true to a point, you also wouldn't expect someone to be intently listening to a conversation you and a buddy would be having at a random lunch at mcdonalds and then suddenly have someone show up at your office to sell you brake pads for your car because you happened to mention you inspected your brakes while rotating the tires... I only picked google because they're likely the worst, but definitely not the only ones listening. Don't get me started with Alexa...

@@kleetus92 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Musta been a more socially acceptable business practice back then, especially without the advantage of social media. Most business was word-of-mouth back then.

@@MilesL.auto-train4013 customer to customer sure, while you're standing there and say, oh excuse me, I overheard your conversation about x, and my company can maybe offer some solutions is a good bit different than some unknown guy showing up at your place of work talking about a meeting that only the company people are supposed to know about... That's what I'm saying.

​@@kleetus92 If that's the case, why are you discussing private company matters in public?

You're using RU-vid to find porn?? you know Pornhub and RedTube exist, right?

The Milwaukee electrified approximately 500 miles of track in the far western mountain portion of their service territory by 1917. 3000 Volt DC power. My grandfather was an engineer for the Milwaukee out of Perry Iowa.

Bi-mode locos might be a good choice to avoid the costs in the short term.

Electrification is much cheaper than the Oil Lobbyists BS you! About $1-200,000 per mile including substaions

Now, never happen, we'll have blown our asses away as a society by then...lmao😂🤣😅😆