Brand new GEEP to replace the ALCO's...…..

It's about 11PM on a cold snowy night in the north country of Wisconsin.....while most people are headin for bed I'm about to embark on a journey east from Portage to Milwaukee on a couple of old ... (more)

After taking ALL they could take in passenger and freight service the 103C and the 71C face an uncertain future being sent to the back yard as it were know back then in West Milwaukee Shops. LINES... (more)

Sandwiched in between two covered wagons and sitting on dolly trucks was the 628. CMStP&P 628 was the Bellingham,WA. switcher for years. It has come back from a long career on the west coast(1954)... (more)

Milwaukee Road Road Slug SG-1 was back east for a bit from LINES WEST at Tacoma. SG-1 was ALCO RS3 2488 years ago before it was rebuilt at West Milwaukee Shops into a road slug back in 1971 then s... (more)

Back in 1974 we we're going to take a Jordon Ditcher from Portage towards Milwaukee....probably a couple of days with our pool turn. The guys on the ground admiring the X288 were L-R Dick Sievert ... (more)

I'm standing on what was once a high level platform between tracks in the Milwaukee Road's West Milwaukee Shops coach yard. This platform was in the past used to allow fork lifts and other carts w... (more)

Back in 67 …..I've got one year seniority as a Fireman/Hostler on my families RR...THE MILWAUKEE ROAD....well...in Milwaukee where 10,000 people worked for the CMStP&P it WAS the biggest and best ... (more)

I'm a brand new Locomotive Engineer just promoted a few months ago from a Locomotive Fireman. So far since the 60's I broke in as a Telegrapher/Leverman Agent/OPR with Howard Wolfert....broke in a... (more)

Showing her age in this night image, the 37A is now in IRM's diesel shop undergoing restoration.

We're leaving Chicago on train #3 the Afternoon Hiawatha.....its must be a Friday cause I'm skipping school and I always skipped school on Fridays. I'd walk to school on Friday mornings walk in on... (more)

We're stopped on the FORD TRAIN at what looks like the east side of Watertown,Wi….the DS was probably single tracking west of town and we would stop here so no public crossings would be blocked. T... (more)

We're stopped on the eastward main track with the westbound FORD train. We crossed over at Watertown to run against the grain(currant of traffic)between Watertown and Columbus. The Ford Train ran ... (more)

Milwaukee Road Engineer Ralph Dowske mugs for the camera at Portage as he readies to take train 262 "THE THUNDERHAWK" east to Milwaukee on its long journey from Tacoma,WA.to Chicago,IL.. Ralph was... (more)

We're stopped on the westward main at Harwood Ave.just outside of Milwaukee right around dawn in Wauwatos,WI.. The DS had crossed us over at Duplainville to run wrong main to Grand Avenue. The rea... (more)