A westbound wayfreight with A-B-A F-units passes closed West Davenport Tower. This is the junction with Rock Island's mainline to Kansas City. The Rock Island installed the sign on the tower to ... (more)

A westbound wayfreight with A-B-A F-units passes the eastbound home signals to the junction with Rock Island's mainline to Kansas City. The CRIP and MILW ran on joint track between here and Musca... (more)

A westbound wayfreight with A-B-A F-units passes Davenport Union Station, used by the Davenport, Rock Island & North Western for their general offices.

A westbound wayfreight with A-B-A F-units pulls down the mainline at Bettendorf and will work the north yard before continuing to Nahant. A Dri-Line job is working off the siding in the south yar... (more)

Milwaukee Road GP9 285 was found in the railroad's Tacoma engine facility on September 17th, 1979. The next year, the Milwaukee would no longer serve Washington, Idaho or Montana.

Milwaukee Road's Rail Detector cars layover in the small yard in front of the Freight House in downtown Davenport, IA.

MILW 1002 leads the Patrol into the siding at Port Byron along the Illinois side of the Mississippi River. For a view of the train it met, check out http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=1... (more)

The MILW mainline from the Quad Cities to Savanna on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River was a secondary route by this time in the 1970's and was used when the mainline on the Iowa side of ... (more)

The MILW mainline from the Quad Cities to Savanna on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River was a secondary route by this time in the 1970's and was used when the mainline on the Iowa side of ... (more)

The headman climbs onboard the northbound Milwaukee Road 2027 after lining the switch at Ebner Junction. The MILW ran on the BN from Ebner to Savanna. The BN has laid out ties to extend their ow... (more)

An eastbound Milwaukee Road patrol diverges onto the Dri-Line mainline at West Davenport This is where the Milwaukee Road/Dri-Line joined Rock Island's Golden State mainline. On the left is Rock... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 and the CP Holiday Train meet up at St. Paul Union Station. The Holiday Train was making a Shoreham (Minneapolis) to SPUD round trip; 261 was departing on its 7:30 run to the &... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 gets ready to depart St Paul Union Station on another exciting adventure to the North Pole to see Santa and his elf's hard at work getting the last minute preparations ready in ... (more)

If in the 1980s you had visited the Milwaukee's mainline, the Dash-2s leading fast, frequent trains might reasonably have convinced you it was a healthy company.

I had been driving north along I35 towards Duluth and had stopped a few miles back for a subway. I emptied the car of trash and stuck it in a bin and continued north. 20 minutes later I patted my ... (more)