After being towed to Glencoe by TCWR 2300 the 261 has just arrived back in Chanhassen to allow this evening's Dinner Train Passengers to disembark. The steam engine will pull the consist back to ... (more)

TCWR 2300 is pulling the passenger train west to Glencoe where the diesel will cut away at the TC&W Shop, and the steam engine will pull the consist back to Minneapolis Jct. tonight. This train i... (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 763, and FM H10-44 switcher is still in service at Savanna, IL. The August 1945 built unit was retired in March 1981.

Back in 1972 I had the opportunity to access Milwaukee Road's Pigs Eye Yard and was able to get up close and personal with the retarder below the hump. Here a MILW cow-calf set has shoved a string... (more)

MILW 100C has definitely seen better days, but was still in service when this portrait was taken at Pigs Eye Yard, St. Paul, MN. Hard to believe that only 18 months earlier this unit was assigned ... (more)

A pair of MILW GP40s roll under the old water tower and the passenger station as they move between the roundhouse (west of the depot) and the yard (east of the depot). Note the old CMSTP&P letteri... (more)

MILW 131 (and Bi-centenniel 156) hold the main at the east end of Beverly, WA siding. Soon westbound train 201 will take the siding and 131 will continue east to a crew change at Othello, WA. Note... (more)

MILW 853 and caboose are parked at Rochelle, IL along the BN mainline, east of the CNW diamonds. Milwaukee Road shared track with BN from Rockford to Rochelle, and operated south of Rochelle on a ... (more)

MILW train about to bang across CNW diamonds Des Plaines

Three year old FP45s nos. 3 and 1 pair up in their second color scheme and new assignment: freight service. Purchased for Hiawatha passenger service the units were delivered in UP yellow, but were... (more)

MILW 24 leads a nicely set up quartet of SD40-2s on a westbound freight as it slows for a meet at Beverly, WA. Catenery poles still stand along the right of way on Milwaukee's mainline, where boxc... (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)