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"The Milwaukee Road is easily one of the best known and best remembered of the "fallen flags" of railroading. Starting from a 20-mile line, the Milwaukee Road grew to over 10,000 miles of tracks in more than a dozen states and reached all the way from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean. Included in this far-flung system were short narrow gauge lines, mountain railroadings across major ranges to reach the Pacific, granger branch lines in America's Heartland, extensive commuter service in Chicago, and numerous streamlined passenger trains including the famous Hiawatha."--