A North Western rush hour train is crossing the MILW diamonds at Mayfair Tower in Chicago.

Rock Island E7(A) 642 and DL-105 622 lead a passenger train in Chicago in the early 1960s R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Dave Vannes,Bill Stauss and myself drove from Madison,WI. to Chattanooga,TN.back in 1972 to ride a Southern steam excursion...….stopped at Paducah,KY. to see all the stored IC&GM&O E-units.

The more things change, sometimes the more they stay the same. The scene here is the Burlington Northern Empire Builder waiting impatiently to get on its overnight run from Minneapolis to Fargo an... (more)

An aging E7A, number unknown, idles next to a bi-level 400 at Green Bay. Painted in its final scheme it is aimed southward for Milwaukee. I have no idea what train this might have been assigned to... (more)

The beautiful Pennsylvania 5901 and 5741 on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.

Penn Central Empire Service train 72, bound from Buffalo to New York, arrives at the Albany-Rensselaer station behind a patched ex-NYC E7 and a repainted E8.

Train 23 in the early days of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation or Amtrak.

The beautiful Pennsylvania 5901 on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.

The nose of Pennsylvania 5901 on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.

Having arrived from the west on a mail and express train, a quartet of Penn Central E-units (two E7s and two E8s) make their way from Boston's South Station to the Dover Street yard for servicing.... (more)

A northbound passenger train on CNW's Airline hammers the crossing at Wiscona on Milwaukee's north side in April of 1966. Photographer Bob Ferge has climbed the signal to record the event while n... (more)

The National Limited accelerates after its Jeff City station stop behind former ACL #532.

Awaiting the torch........

With the advent of Amtrak(NRPC)a lot of things changed on the Milwaukee Road. In engine service on the Lacrosse Division we lost over 30 Engineer and Fireman positions on passenger.....I went from... (more)