Rebuilt MILW GP9s wait for their train to St. Paul to be readied at Northern Pacific's Rice's Point Yard in July 1969. Milwaukee Road utilized trackage rights on NP and later BN between St. Paul a... (more)

Crossing the diamonds at 21st street in Chicago, a CB&Q (Burlington Route) freight with GP30 #957 , GP20 #935 and GP40 #172. 35mm slide from my collection, photographer unknown.

MILW 579, one of four rebuilt Alco RSC2-Ms (576-579) waits for its crew at the west end of Milwaukee's small Eau Claire yard. The train will go on duty late afternoon and head down the branch line... (more)

Humboldt memories
A Soo Line freight departs Humboldt Yard in the Twin Cities north of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 11, 1985. A Milwaukee Road “Hiawatha” SD40-2 No. 159 leads t... (more)

An oldie but goodie shot on Kodachrome II film near LaGrange, IL on the July 4 weekend of 1966. Never to se seen again :).

Former Milwaukee Road 554 working on the DM&E at Huron, SD in Sept. 1989

Soo Line (Lake States Transportation Division or LSTD) Train No. 17, led by SD39 No. 6241, waits for the passage of Soo Train No. 203 at Springdale Road in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on June 6, 1987. ... (more)

Extra 21 West (probably Train 200) awaits a crew change at Three Forks.

With less than a month to go before the March 1980 embargo, Milwaukee's Sumas Turn crosses the BN mainline along the Bellingham waterfront. After adding a few cars, the train will head for Tacoma ... (more)

Yard engine 1903 returning to Faribault from Northfield, Minnesota.

Its 5:00 PM departure time from Dallas Union Station has arrived, and the Sam Houston Zephyr is on its way. The 283 miles to Houston lie ahead. The Southern Pacific Sunbeam is scheduled to le... (more)

In the spring of 86 a Soo Line train is crossing the large bridge at Foster Iowa on its way to Kansas City. Soo power was already finding its way on most trains on this line. My dad and I spent ... (more)

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific 4-6-2 F3 Class No 196 was built by the Milwaukee Road in their shops in 1920. She had 79" drivers, 23.5 x 28 inch cylinders, operated at 200psi boiler pressu... (more)

Bridge is over the Indiana Harbor Belt main