MPLS Coach Yard

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Howard Brewer	General	Not sure, but I think from the photo that might have been the lead engine in a Westbound that hit a tanker truck just East of LaCrosse Wisconsin. The engineer was killed (staying at the throttle) and the fireman bolted through the door into the walkway inside the engine and escaped serious injury. The Milwaukee road never let their engines rust to that point and it sure looks like burned paint rather than rust. Just saying.	2/8/2012 4:21:16 PM

Howard Brewer	General	Forgot to mention it was a Westbound Passenger train and that's probably why the engineer decided to ride it out. You would be approaching the BN crossing and the yard limits at LaCrosse. My memory taint all that good sometimes. You would have been reducing speed at that point to 35 MPD. If you dynamited at that point the train would stop about in the middle and a lot of pasengers could have been cooked. I talked to the conductor awile after it happened and he did mention it scared the hell out of everyone on the train, but, the train clered the explosion. BTW: I was an engineer on the old Milwaukee Road before it went bellyup.	2/15/2012 7:04:14 AM

MPLS Coach Yard
Paint Donations?..Date unknown
Date: 5/1/1970	Location: Minneapolis, MN Map	Views: 876	Collection Of: Mike Cunningham
Locomotives: MILW 100C(FP7A)			Author: Mike Cunningham

Picture Categories: Roster,Yard,Passenger		This picture is part of album: The Milwaukee Road

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