Milwaukee Road 261 westbound on the Twin Cities & Western main line at Augusta, Minn headed to Winthrop MN on its annual fall colors excursion.

At sunset, an eastbound Milwaukee Road “Sprint” piggyback train approaches Signal Bridge 19 at Sheffield Tower in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1985. This is on the Kansas City Termina... (more)

A westbound Milwaukee Road freight crosses the Soo Line diamonds rattling the windows of Duplainville tower on a snowless Wisconsin winter day in February 1984.

A June 10, 1984, view from Illinois Highway 251 overpass sees an eastbound Milwaukee Road freight departing Davis Junction led by three EMD SD40-2s.

MILW 301 brings a freight up Lake Hill on the south side of Milwaukee, WI in March of 1971. Bob Ferge photo from my collection.

Detour! In May of 1986, the Soo Line detoured several trains over CNW's Adams Line due to flooding on their ex-MILW mainline between Milwaukee and the Twin Cities. Several freights and Amtrak's Em... (more)

Twelve years after the Milwaukee Road's Pacific Coast extension abandonment, skeletons of a pair of ABS block signals still stand between Lennup and Loweth MT.

Freshly painted MILW SD40-2 #142 storms past the tower at Lake on Milwaukee's south side in October of 1984. There is a fairly steep grade here that can bring a heavy freight to its knees.

At dusk, electrics E75 and E29 wait silently for tonight's assignment: to haul a heavy eastbound freight over St. Paul Pass, with E75 as lead unit, and E29 cut into the train as helper.

At the end of a cold January day in 1983, the setting sun silhouettes Duplainville tower. The diamond at Duplainville, Wisconsin, featured Soo Line’s main line crossing a double-track Milwaukee ... (more)

Milwaukee Road Little Joe No. E70 leads a 262 train at Drexel eastbound along the St. Regis River.

Milwaukee Road electric locomotives Nos. E29 and E82 sit quietly at the railroad's Deer Lodge engine facility awaiting their next assignment.

The orange logo lives on, although most passers-by likely do not know what it represents. Between the Clark Fork River and the University of Montana, this is the former Milwaukee Road mainline in ... (more)

Two Milwaukee Road time freights meet in front of the yard office in Avery. Train 261 is about to cut off its Little Joe helper after crossing St. Paul Pass, while a 264 waits to depart eastward.

A westbound Milwaukee Road freight negotiates tight curves with a new SD40-2 in the lead. The square speakers atop the cab are an electronic bell.