Amtrak's Empire Builder comes down the 1.7% eastbound and in the distance the Milwaukee Day's circus train from Baraboo comes down the little under 1% westbound track,,,,two of Elm Grove's finest ... (more)

Amtrak's WB Empire Builder rolls through the farm fields west of Rio in the last sunlight of an unseasonably warm day.

A Hiawatha Service train rolls through rural Kenosha County enroute to Milwaukee.

Amtrak (IDTX) 4627 leads test train #919 thru Franksville, WI on CP's C&M Subdivision. The train is running westbound on the route of the Empire Builder, presumably to test the suitability of the ... (more)

Following the Empire Builder, the North Coast Hiawatha rolls into North La Crosse for its station stop. As with the Empire Builder, which came through earlier, this train will receive a windshield... (more)

The Empire Builder led by a BN E8 and two former GN F7Bs slows to a station stop at North La Crosse a year into Amtrak. In addition to handling passengers and baggage, a hostler will wash the fac... (more)

Amtrak's SB Empire Builder crosses from One Main to Two Main at the Oakwood crossover in Caledonia. Within a few short months, that switch heater will be needed to keep the C & M fluid.

Amtrak 90219 takes train 334 through Caledonia, along the vintage pole lines.

A SB Hiawatha Service train blows through the small Kenosha County Village of Somers enroute to Chicago.

Milwaukee Road Fireman Warren Huck on the Empire Builder gets orders hooped up to him from Telegraph OPR. Rick Tessman at the Portage depot. Rick will go on to be a Trainmaster in Milwaukee for th... (more)

Amtrak's midday service from Milwaukee to Chicago rolls through the warehouse district of eastern Kenosha County on a cold February day.

Amtrak #349 leads train #8, The Empire Builder, past the Pleasant Prairie power plant in August of 1989. The power plant closed this year and will likely be torn down, eradicating this view in the... (more)

After coming in on train 31 the day before we're well rested and going back to Milwaukee on train 32. I'm probably firing for Harry Gust who at the time was one of the regular Engineers on Amtrak.... (more)