UP 2000, a UP local operating as a caboose hop passes MILW SD9 502 and the big hook at Auburn siding, Auburn, WA. The MILW crew is cleaning up a minor derailment involving a Thrall all-door lumber... (more)

Fall color is in full tilt on top of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state as MILW 177 exits Snoqualmie Tunnel after making its eastbound climb up from Cedar Falls, WA. The train will continue to Ot... (more)

MILW 164 round the curved Mine Creek Trestle on its climb up Snoqualmie Pass with an eastbound dead freight, using a mix of SD40-2s and SD10s in this formerly electrified area.

MILW 164 rolls a dead freight east on Pacific Coast Ry. (BN) trackage along the Cedar River between Renton and Maple Valley, WA as it heads its dead freight toward the climb up Snoqualmie Pass.

MILW U36C no. 5802 handles a set out and pick up at Milwaukees's yard at Black River Jct. Here the train is using Pacific Coast trackage as a yard lead as it passes by the BN owned tower that prto... (more)

Less than a year before shutting down their Pacific extension, Milwaukee Road crews in the West made a valiant effort to keep things moving. Here a pair of SD10s support a trio of SD40-2s on their... (more)

MILW SW1200 no. 630 switches cars on and off a barge at Seattle's waterfront in December 1978. Barge service here reached North Vancouver, as well as Puget Sound industries at Pt. Townsend, Pt. Ga... (more)

East meets west at Beverly, WA. Here the westbound radio controlled slave units approach the eastbound power. These units like two of the lead units have not been repainted/lettered with the large... (more)

MILW 24 leads a nicely set up quartet of SD40-2s on a westbound freight as it slows for a meet at Beverly, WA. Catenery poles still stand along the right of way on Milwaukee's mainline, where boxc... (more)

MILW GP9 no. 285 leads a mix of EMDs and a GE on a Portland bound freight at Blakesley Jct., at Centralia, WA as it is about to cross BN and UP diamonds that lead those roads to Grays Harbor. The ... (more)

A Milwaukee freight led by GP9 285 heads west (south) past a string of loaded log cars east of Maytown, WA on April Fool's Day 1979. The train is en route to Portland, OR and will get on BN tracka... (more)

Milwaukee Road 322 leads a mix of EMD and GE power on a northbound freight from Portland, OR to Tacoma, WA. The train is passing through the junction at Frederickson where the line to Portland and... (more)

A Milwaukee Road manifest heads north through Greendale, WA on its run from Portland to Tacoma. After the BN merger, Milwaukee gained access to Portland and an important connection with Southern P... (more)

Milwaukee Road GP9 285 was found in the railroad's Tacoma engine facility on September 17th, 1979. The next year, the Milwaukee would no longer serve Washington, Idaho or Montana.

A Milwaukee freight consisting of a GP9/GP35/U25B/U30B/U28B quintet rolls northbound across a river near McKenna, WA en route from Portland, OR to Tacoma. After the BN merger, Milwaukee Road gaine... (more)