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Milwaukee Road hostler

By Angela Cotey | July 21, 2018

| Last updated on January 5, 2021

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A hostler at the Milwaukee Road’s engine terminal near 35th Street in Milwaukee uses a water crane to top off the tender of a steam locomotive. The Fairbanks-Morse diesel on the next track hints that steam is on borrowed time in this April 1951 photo.
Linn H. Westcott photo

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