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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Home
    • Annual Open House
  • Membership
  • Model Railroad
    • O-scale, 2-rail Layout
  • Prototype Railroad
    • Historic M&N
      • Main Line-Schwartzburg-Hilbert
      • Menasha Branch
        • High Cliff Spur
        • Appleton Branch
          • “Colossus” Whale Exhibit
          • Atlas Paper Company
        • Neenah Branch
          • Krueger & Lachmann
        • Whiting Paper
      • Main Line-Hilbert Junction-Green Bay
      • Main Line-Fort Howard-Menominee River
      • Main Line-Menominee River-Ontonagon
        • Iron Mountain Iron Ore
      • Champion Branch
    • Rolling Stock
    • Reminders of the M&N
      • Reminders-Schwartzburg Junction-Hilbert Junction
      • Reminders-Menasha Branch
        • Reminders-Appleton Branch
        • Reminders-Neenah Branch
        • Reminders-High Cliff Spur
      • Reminders-Hilbert Junction-Green Bay
      • Reminders-Fort Howard-Menominee River
      • Reminders-Menominee Branch
      • Reminders-Menominee River-Ontonagon
      • Reminders-Champion Branch
  • Addenda
  • Contact
  • Support
  • Links
    • Live RailCams

Happy Birthday to the Milwaukee & Northern!

The Milwaukee & Northern was incorporated 153 years ago. It was granted a charter from the Wisconsin Legislature on 24 February 1870.

Locomotive-M&N 2, 0-4-2
M&N 2, 0-4-2, at Menasha, Wis., ca. 1882 or 1885. Photograph courtesy of the Neenah Historical Society.
Advertisement 1872
M&N advertisement from the Menasha Press in 1872.
1889 M&N Pass
M&N pass from 1889
M&N letterhead circa 1873
M&N letterhead circa 1873

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