Eastbound leads up Pipestone Pass

Crew Change at Avery read to Climb St. Paul pass

MILW, Milwaukee Road caboose 992118 brings up the rear of a northbound Milwaukee Road TOFC, as Southern Railway, SOU GP30 2624 flying white extra flags waits its turn to cross the Ohio River to Lo... (more)

Sprinting toward Duplainville
A pair of Milwaukee Road GP40s sprints Soo Line train 211 westbound toward Springdale Road grade crossing just east of Duplainville, Wisconsin, on a hazy A... (more)

A couple of Little Joes and a box-cab at the beginning of the Montana electrified Milwaukee mainline. E-78 has the EMD cab, unlike the rest of the Little Joes.

At Bensenville, Illinois, on September 13, 1987, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 174 leads a locomotive consist back to their train at the west end of Bensenville Yard. Soo Line has owned the Milwau... (more)

Milwaukee Road’s freight to Green Bay passes the feed mill at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, in December 1984. Bay window caboose No. 992117 carries the markers on this pleasant winter day.

Milwaukee Road’s Milwaukee to Green Bay road freight rolls northbound through Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, in December 1984. Powered by EMD SD40-2 Nos. 130 and 17, the train is about halfway into it... (more)

A pair of Milwaukee Road EMD GP40s power Soo Line train 243 at Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 12, 1987. The eastbound train is making a set out on the old Soo Line siding using... (more)

Milwaukee road freight in action

In August 1968, A Milwaukee Road commuter train heads inbound at B-12 in Franklin Park with a single E9A and cab car. Original Slide. R. W. Richards Photo. Sam Foster Collection.

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)

Two Milwaukee Road F7 A-B-A sets join forces to drag a Portland bound freight out of Tide Flats Yard. The B units are slugs and the two sets were assigned to Tacoma to handle helper service up the... (more)

Milwaukee Road may have been on its last legs in 1976, but you wouldn't know it by looking at these MP15AC locos. Nearly new, they really showed off their Milwaukee colors well.

A pair of Milwaukee Road SD9s sits on the turntable in Bellingham between assignments.