Amtrak Hiawatha Service #338 departs downtown Milwaukee for the for the hour and a half run to Chicago.

A nice Hiawatha set made the 11 am departure out of Milwaukee on 334. Although these B40's are in the wrong paint scheme, they still look cool on the front of passenger trains. Here the train pass... (more)

After narrowly missing the train at Columbus, we finally caught it at Portage after it stopped for a crew change and to allow the westbound Empire Builder to pass. This train also had UP 6310, ex-... (more)

The CP roadmaster waits for Amtrak 338 to pass before erecting cautionary track boards Hiawatha corridor service trains are down to 4 per day.

Running on-time, the SB Empire Builder passes a NB Canadian Pacific freight just north of Franksville in rural Racine County.

Amtrak's Empire Builder, with the Salute to Veterans unit 42 leading the way, at Pewaukee, WI.

It’s still strange to me seeing the Empire Builder stopping in Sturtevant, as the hiawathas stopped running because of covid. Even stranger is that BNSF didn’t mess this one up and it was even... (more)

An on time Amtrak #8 gets a pair of heritage painted units leading the way as they pull through Milwaukee on their way to Chicago.

A Chicago-Milwaukee train with two ex CNW bilevel coaches appears out of the fog at Sturtevant.

After the passage of a severe storm, Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder thunders by the classic Milwaukee Road wood-framed depot at Brookfield, Wisconsin, on June 2, 1990.

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)