I'm home on my lay-over and the scanner crackles "train 213 hit a truck just east of Watertown,WI.." I grab my camera jump in the car and head east. The driver of the small rental truck apparently... (more)

Westbound at Harwood Ave. the Ford Train makes its way through downtown Wauwatosa,WI. on its way to the Ford plant in the Twin Cities.

We're in the clear on the westward siding at Voltz just west of Watertown,WI. for Amtrak's Empire Builder.

Ford train 213 westbound at the 115th Street crossing.

We're in the clear in the westward siding at Voltz for another westbound train. If you look real close you can see a headlight just cresting the hill towards the rear of our train. In freight pool... (more)

Ford train westbound passes the Watertown,WI..Depot starts its climb toward Voltz.

Milwaukee Road Extra 2001 West approaches Duplainville,WI. at full tilt with the Ford Fast train. This train,the XL Special 261 and 99 the Roaring 90's trains were the hottest trains in the 70's w... (more)

We have changed crews on the Ford train and either a River crew or west end crew will take it to the Twin Cities or Lacrosse depending whether the crews were interdivisional at the time. Run throu... (more)

The Ford Fast Con and our Conductor Joe Bruckner highball each other after Joe had inspected the Ford train passing the west switch of the siding at Brookfield,WI.. Soon we'll follow and chase the... (more)

The Ford Fast on the westbound track passes our little way freight tucked away in the westbound siding at Brookfield,WI..

We're stopped on westward track behind Chudnow's scrap yard just east of Hawley and State St.on the west side of Milwaukee,WI.. We're on the Fast Ford which today will not be very fast as we've go... (more)

We're stopped at 10th street at Watertown,WI. after a collision with a small vehicle that the owner on a trip from Florida decided to park on the westward track. A snowstorm had just ended as we c... (more)

We're stopped on the eastward track next to the canning factory at Columbus,WI. waiting for the passage of the westbound Empire Builder.

Milwaukee Road’s hot westbound “Ford Fast” approaches Duplainville, Wisconsin, in March 1984.

A trio of Milwaukee Road GP40s leads train #213 past the west end of Muskego Yard.