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 22 crosses the Columbia River with an eastbound freight after descending Boyleston Hill, and after meeting a westbound at Beverly will have an easy run to its crew change at Othello... (more)

Fog, snow and rain make for a dreary mixture on Snoqualmie Pass as a westbound Milwaukee Road freight descends the pass and crosses Hull Creek trestle. Catenary poles still stand on the bridge ack... (more)

MILW 305, a late phase GP9 looks pretty dapper in its original scheme as it waits for its next assignment at Milwaukee Road's Tacoma Tide Flats yard 13 months before the demise of western extensio... (more)

MILW 618 heads a transfer from Black River Jct., near Renton, WA where the MILW mainline separates from the Pacific Coast Railway, into Seattle. Main line trains from Chicago terminated in Tacoma,... (more)

A BN transfer headed for Portland roils out of the yard as it heads for the Columbia River Bridge.

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)

MILW train 202 climbs east out of Kittitas, WA over Renslow trestle on its way to Beverly, WA and Othello for a crew change. The bridge which still stands in 2016 spans a valley that interstate 90... (more)

MILW 24 passes the Kittitas depot and substation as it accelerates west out of town with its extra freight. The train has just dropped off manned helpers after a climb up from Beverly, WA on the C... (more)

MILW 22 and two more SD40-2s lead train 202 across the Columbia River at Beverly, WA. Evidence of former catenary remains on the bridge, and the bridge still stands today as a monument to Milwauke... (more)

MILW 22 and two more SD40-2s have a roll on it at South Cle Elum as train 202 rolls by the depot and substation. Today this is part of a Washington state trail and the depot and substation have be... (more)

Extra 131 east rolls by a westbound extra at Beverly, WA on August 27, 1978. About a year and a half before Milwaukee's transcontinental demise, the railroad was fairly busy with about 6 trains a ... (more)

Slave master SD40-2, MILW 22, replete with icicle breakers leads scheduled freight 202 east along Hyak siding, just east of Snoqualmie Pass tunnel and summit. The train is en route from Tacoma, WA... (more)

Little did I know in early June 1974 when I made my first brief visit to Wenatchee and caught these cabooses, all former GN except BN 10523, that nearly 40 years later I would retire to this commu... (more)