Milwaukee Road may have been on its last legs in 1976, but you wouldn't know it by looking at these MP15AC locos. Nearly new, they really showed off their Milwaukee colors well.

Milwaukee Road 5802 handles some switching duties at their Black River yard after descending Snoqualmie Pass into the Puget Sound region. The train will set out cars for Seattle, and pick up any f... (more)

A train led by set of Yellow F units arrives at the yard in the late afternoon. In those days there was a lot of old power everywhere

Two Milwaukee veterans sit in front of Barn 11 at IRM, adorned with appropriate signage. Neither of these two units see the light of day often, as they are often locked away in one of the newer b... (more)

MILW 261 backs into Minneapolis with the Hiawatha excursion

A Milwaukee Road transfer run in the care of a Fairbanks-Morse H-16-44 rolls off the Chicago River drawbridge and approaches the multiple diamonds at Ash Street in Chicago.

The 261 heads past the old grain elevator in Glencoe on its way to Brownton.

The MILW 261 Excursion train passes over a small bridge just north of Gaylord, MN

MILW (Soo Line) 2024 enters the connection track at Duplainville, WI in April of 1987.

Eastbound headed for Bensenville.

Eastbound piggyback train nears its destination at Bensenville Yard.

A rebuilt GP20 (originally GP9 #2399) leads an eastbound Hiawatha, IN to Louisville, KY trackage rights train down the former Monon (now L&N) street running in New Albany, IN. These rails, while s... (more)

Milwaukee Road 3030 West approaches the big tunnel under the Bitterroot Mountains. The railroad later renumbered the lead EMD to 160. Apparently this freight was light enough to forego a lead Litt... (more)

After a little work in the yard, this mainline local heads across BN's main and toward the Mississippi bridge and Iowa beyond.