ON a lazy Sunday afternoon in October 1977, a muscle car sits at a set of fuel pumps in Bellevue, Iowa, as a set of Milwaukee Road Funits trundle down the street with a long grain train from Iowa ... (more)

The inbound Sumas Turn stopped at the MILW/BN crossover gates.

First and only time I ever witnessed the Milwaukee doing ANY work to their Bellingham to Sumas branch track. Here a pair of SDL39s are helping spread a little ballast just weeks before D-Day.