Beauty and the beast. The beautiful snow dusted mountain peaks contrast sharply to this once proud Milwaukee Road passenger engine. Not sure what became of it.

A pair of GP38-2s along with a pair of new SD60s leads train #301 north on the Indiana Harbor Belt. The bridges from left to right are the IHB, GTW, and B&OCT/CSX mainlines, ad this photo was tak... (more)

Josh D grabs a shot of the 261 while Steve Sandberg loads the tender with coal.

Hard to remember when a gallon of gas was below a buck.

Milwaukee Road 101A heads up a short freight train on display in the Cresco, Iowa, city park. The unit was placed here in 1985 and is supposedly operable.

Milwaukee Road’s hot westbound “Ford Fast” approaches Duplainville, Wisconsin, in March 1984.

MILW's SD7 522 has eight empty 40-ft. box cars in tow at Suffolk, Mont. en route to the elevator at the end of the branch at Winifred. The 90-mile round trip at 10 mph will require most of the c... (more)

MILW's local has arrived at the end of the Winifred, Mont. branch and has placed its 8 empty box cars on the north end of the loaded box cars. SD7 522 runs around them to couple into the loads, s... (more)

Was it any crossties or was it the sod that held the gauge on MILW's Winifred branch near Suffolk when the local with eight 40-ft. box cars tenderly negotiated it at 10 mph? Remnants of old "rai... (more)

Eleven miles from Lewistown, Mont., MILW's local to Winifred actually traversed the siding (elevator track) because the "main line" was out of service. Speed limit was 10 mph.

The Jordan spreader work train is amply supplied with horsepower with two Milwaukee Road GE box cab electrics E50A and E50B while dressing the ballast near Piedmont, Mont. Easy around those pole... (more)

The last shot of the day! The "Cedar Rapids" takes up the rear of the NRHS train as it pulls into the CIC 950 yard at the end of the Rock Island to Cedar Rapids trip.

Before the "StPaul" was called the "Milwaukee" and before the "Pacific" was added the photo above was captioned as train #8 stopped at Portage,WI. date on back showed 1898. Photo hung for years in... (more)

Former Milwaukee Road 554 working on the DM&E at Huron, SD in Sept. 1989

Soo Line (Lake States Transportation Division or LSTD) Train No. 17, led by SD39 No. 6241, waits for the passage of Soo Train No. 203 at Springdale Road in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on June 6, 1987. ... (more)