After cutting out a couple of six-axle EMDs at Tacoma Junction, Milwaukee Road 2060 West departs. The catenary above the train is no longer in service.

The tide is in as MILW 630 attempt to unload and load a barge on Puget Sound in Seattle. This barge appears to be mostly BC Rail equipment, which would then float to North Vancouver, BC.

MILW GP9 301 and caboose 991905 are parked at Sumner near the depot. this equipment worked the valley between Sumner and Black River Jct., south of Seattle on joint UP-MILW trackage. This included... (more)

Northern Pacific GE U28Cs numbered 2800-2811 rated at 3,000 HP, and had 3,500-gallon fuel tanks.

A pair of SW1500s delivered the previous January pulls a train out of the yard for switching.

A variety of locomotives, including many Alcos, get needed attention at the Vancouver Shops.

The power and caboose for the Valley Owl local are parked between duties at Sumner, WA, located between Tacoma and Kent/Auburn. This was part of the UP/MILW joint mainline into Seattle and is stil... (more)

Five years into the BN merger, Delta Yard at Everett, WA still showed hints of the past. A fairly new BN SW1500 is joined by older GN and NP EMD switchers, and some repainted Geeps. Great Northern... (more)

MILW 5604 leads an RS2 slug, another U-boat and an F7 A-B-A set (B unit a slug) on a freight headed up Tacoma hill to Frederickson, WA. I am uncertain whether this was a Portland bound train or if... (more)

MILW 5802 leads another big GE, and SD40-2 and an SD45 into Black River Jct. along Milwaukee's Black River yard in Tukwila, just south of Seattle. This location was where the branch into Seattle, ... (more)

MILW 741 is a fairly new MP15AC, one of a large order of 64 units received from EMD between December 1975 and March 1976. These would be Milwaukee Road's last new locomotives acquired. Most operat... (more)

MILW 992154 brings up the rear of a Portland bound train at Blakesley Jct., WA just after crossing the UP line to Grays Harbor. The train is skirting the edge of Centralia before getting on BN tra... (more)

MILW GP9 no. 285 leads a mix of EMDs and a GE on a Portland bound freight at Blakesley Jct., at Centralia, WA as it is about to cross BN and UP diamonds that lead those roads to Grays Harbor. The ... (more)

MILW 164 leads three more SD40-2s and two SD10s up the grade to Snoqualmie Pass as it heads a dead freight east at Mine Creek trestle. The trestle shows evidence of Milwaukee's engineering efforts... (more)

Milwaukee Road SD40-2 no. 24 leads a freight west across the Yakima River near Cabin creek, west of Easton, WA as it starts its rather easy climb up the east side of Snoqualmie Pass en route to Ta... (more)