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A Mid-Continent Timeline--2000's |
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Compiled by Jim Neubauer from past issues of Railway Gazette, Mid-Continent's official newsmagazine.
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| May 2000: |
Pullman china "Indian Tree" pattern, graces tables in the business car #440, and color cover on the Railway Gazette. |
| November 2000: |
Museum signs $350,000 contract with professional car restorer Glenn Guerra for restoration of MLS&W car 63. |
| February 2001: |
Steam Heat is supplied to train by Great Northern steam generator car #593 for first time. |
| April 2001: |
Forrest Van Schwartz succeeds Don Meyer as Executive Director. |
| May 2001: |
Open House held in Car Shop to show progress on car restoration projects such as Copper Range Rail Road 60 and Milwaukee Lake Shore & Western 63. Tourist Railway Association gives Crook/Freeman award posthumously to Tom O'Brien, Jr., and adds his name to the award, because of his significant impact on the TRAIN organization and the tourist railway industry. |
| June 2001: |
Wisconsin State Historical Society marker unveiled at museum, recognizing it as a historic site. |
| June 2001: |
Floods wash out line in several places. Volunteers get service restored in a hurry. Engine #1385 enters National Register of Historic Places. |
| July 2001: |
Series of Railway Gazette begins on MLS&W restoration covering paint research, car architecture, Art Nouveau design, Miller Hook couplers, construction, to document the project. |
| November 2001: |
Track work completed to correct damage from June 2000 flooding. New ballast makes for sharp looking railroad. Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 #22's cosmetic restoration takes giant leap forward with new cab, tender body. |
| October 1, 2002: |
C&NW #1385's original tender, for many years stored at the end of the museum's line at Quartzite Lake, is rescued from the now isolated track and moved to safe storage for eventual restoration. |
| October 1, 2002: |
Milwaukee Lake Shore & Western coach #63 unveiled to the media to show off its restored splendor. |
| October 26, 2002: |
Museum operates excursions over WSOR to Devils Lake State Park for two days, raising $12,000 to restore steam locomotives to service. |
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(to be continued) |
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