A Guide to Sites and Locations (Milwaukee Road) - Softcover

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Viewed from any perspective--engineering, scenic, historical, or pure railroading excitement--the Main Line of the Milwaukee, almost exactly 100 miles of mountain-traversing Idaho right-of-way, is remarkable. The route encompasses 20 tunnels, nearly a dozen high steel-bented trestles, and a lake-spanning pile trestle over a half-mile in length. The right-of-way is carved out of rock cliff and forested mountainside and follows for miles the route of one of America's designated Wild and Scenic Rivers. Numerous observers have cited this stretch as the most beautiful stretch of railroad scenery in America. At the time of construction it was the most expensive segment of railroad construction ever known. It contained the largest segment of the Milwaukee's precedent-shattering electrified line and carried on its heavy high rails, laid on a comfort- and safety-oriented smooth railbed, one of the finest premier streamlined luxury trains in America, the Olympian and eventually the Olympian Hiawatha. Hikers and bicyclers (and in some areas horseback riders and those in automobiles) can follow the roadbed, not only in Idaho but eastward into Montana.