Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.
September 25, 2020
Blair says:
"I drove along the Milwaukee Road from Othello to Beverly today, and was reminded what a bad-ass piece of railroad this is, especially from Taunton to Smyrna. Perhaps my callow teenage mind didn't realize this 40 years ago, but I'm sure Rob Leachman spent far more time and effort photographing this stretch--even in boxcab days!--than I ever considered.
"The railroad was always a maintenance headache, especially in the 40 years since abandonment, and the entities who have owned or operated this stretch since then have found this out, with silpouts, slides, and range fires. Amazingly this piece of mainline survives. Here's a view looking east a bit west of Corfu. It looks more like an under-maintained Sand Pass on the WP than the Milwaukee, as the expected code line and electrical apparatus are long gone. But oh, the possibilities! This is just an east spot to drive to; I didn't bother hiking up to the REALLY cool spots!"
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