I-90 Construction Avery - Drexel at Mullan
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Tomahawk368
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Sweet! I love it when users take routes up a notch. (For the better) And this easily fits into that category.
Hallo ARR,
its very nice to see that you are devotedly working to bring my Milwaukee Road Avery – Drexel route up into another time period. Once I decided to set up the route back into the early 70’s just into the last years of electrification of Milwaukee Roads mainline to give users the possibility to operate heavy transcontinental trains by using mixed power like common during the last years of electrification at the Milwaukee Road.
Back in the early 70’s the I-90 was under construction at Taft, Mt – just like at my route. From 1976 onward – the electrification at Milwaukee Roads mainline was already discontinued – the I-90 was under construction between Henderson and St.Regis. This also includes two big bridges high above the valley at the big loop curve just about two and a half miles northwest of Drexel – and Substation No.12.
Mostly the old Highway 10 (2 lanes) has been converted into the 4 lane I-90 and onramps has been added at the main road junctions. But there are several places where the new I-90 got its own way through the woods while the old way of the former Highway 10 had been abandoned after opening of the I-90. Mainly this places are the mentioned curve between Drexel and Henderson and the section between Mullan, Id to the west and up eastward over the Lookout Pass to the big NP-Loops a little west of Taft. Also at this Loop, the NP Tunnel is situated. West of the tunnel, down beside the river, the old Highway 10 crossed the NP track at the same level – so it does also in my route. This has been changed, as a bridge has been constructed to take the I-90 above the tracks.
As I created the route, I spent many hours to search Google maps and USGS maps where you can recognise even the old embankments of the former Highway 10 at the places where the I-90 takes a different way.
Unfortunately all of the tracks have been gone after abandonment of the MILW as well as of NP’s Lookout Pass line. The MILW was discontinued in 1980. The track of both RR where ripped out about 1982. While the MILW steel trestles still remains in our days, NP’s wooden S-Curve Viaduct southeast of Mullan, Id has been gone. And although your screens looks great, a Montana Rail Link diesel has never met a Milwaukee Road Boxcab Electric indicated at one of your screens taken at Haugan, Mt. But in the other hand your changed route may goes to be a more fictional route giving a little imagination to us, what could have been if …
Therefore, give up your great work to add some new into my route – the most important thing is, you enjoy to do so and other people will like it too.
And if you would like to provide a fictional route to the community, where both rail and road traffic goes through the Bitterroots, I could imagine to give my little contribution to it with an fictional livery for the Little Joe – may in MRL blue.
All the best from me – Your’s TUME
its very nice to see that you are devotedly working to bring my Milwaukee Road Avery – Drexel route up into another time period. Once I decided to set up the route back into the early 70’s just into the last years of electrification of Milwaukee Roads mainline to give users the possibility to operate heavy transcontinental trains by using mixed power like common during the last years of electrification at the Milwaukee Road.
Back in the early 70’s the I-90 was under construction at Taft, Mt – just like at my route. From 1976 onward – the electrification at Milwaukee Roads mainline was already discontinued – the I-90 was under construction between Henderson and St.Regis. This also includes two big bridges high above the valley at the big loop curve just about two and a half miles northwest of Drexel – and Substation No.12.
Mostly the old Highway 10 (2 lanes) has been converted into the 4 lane I-90 and onramps has been added at the main road junctions. But there are several places where the new I-90 got its own way through the woods while the old way of the former Highway 10 had been abandoned after opening of the I-90. Mainly this places are the mentioned curve between Drexel and Henderson and the section between Mullan, Id to the west and up eastward over the Lookout Pass to the big NP-Loops a little west of Taft. Also at this Loop, the NP Tunnel is situated. West of the tunnel, down beside the river, the old Highway 10 crossed the NP track at the same level – so it does also in my route. This has been changed, as a bridge has been constructed to take the I-90 above the tracks.
As I created the route, I spent many hours to search Google maps and USGS maps where you can recognise even the old embankments of the former Highway 10 at the places where the I-90 takes a different way.
Unfortunately all of the tracks have been gone after abandonment of the MILW as well as of NP’s Lookout Pass line. The MILW was discontinued in 1980. The track of both RR where ripped out about 1982. While the MILW steel trestles still remains in our days, NP’s wooden S-Curve Viaduct southeast of Mullan, Id has been gone. And although your screens looks great, a Montana Rail Link diesel has never met a Milwaukee Road Boxcab Electric indicated at one of your screens taken at Haugan, Mt. But in the other hand your changed route may goes to be a more fictional route giving a little imagination to us, what could have been if …
Therefore, give up your great work to add some new into my route – the most important thing is, you enjoy to do so and other people will like it too.
And if you would like to provide a fictional route to the community, where both rail and road traffic goes through the Bitterroots, I could imagine to give my little contribution to it with an fictional livery for the Little Joe – may in MRL blue.
All the best from me – Your’s TUME