She's back! After four years of being dormant in the shops in Mineapolis receiving a complete overhaul, Milwaukee 261 attacks the mainline for the first time, leading a five car test train ... (more)

Looks great, Smells good and muddy roads.

The Milwaukee Road 261 is back! The elegant lady is slowing to a stop in Glencoe on her first significant run in four years.

Milwaukee Road 261 rolls west through the Kenwood neighborhood of Minneapolis on rails that once belonged to the M&StL and later, the C&NW. The locomotive was heading west with a short train over ... (more)

Passing the North side of Target field after a long wait for the main.

Steaming Light with only 5 cars the 261 needs to ware in it's new bearings

The 1987 NRHS Convention was held in Roanoke, Virginia. The schedule included an excursion trip from Roanoke to Radford on August 1, 1987. This trip featured N&W 1218 with a coal train and N&W 611... (more)

25 Miles to Ash Hill - Out of Amboy - AT&SF 3751 with the Grand Canyon Excursion Train in tow starts the 25 mile and 1800 vertical foot climb out of Amboy California to Ash Hill where i... (more)

A frozen switch stopped the train allowing the photographer to catch up while driving on snow covered roads. Once the switch was cleared, 614 made quite a show getting the train of 88 empty hopper... (more)

614 storms through Hurricane WVA on the C&O mainline.

Returning north via the Valley line following a movie making appearance in Southern California. Cooking along at track speed with a perfect economy haze from the stack. Somewhere north of Fresno. ... (more)

The 1987 NRHS Convention was held in Roanoke, Virginia. The schedule included an excursion trip from Roanoke to Radford on August 1, 1987. This trip featured N&W 1218 with a coal train and N&W 611... (more)

The 1987 NRHS Convention was held in Roanoke, Virginia. The schedule included an excursion trip from Roanoke to Radford on August 1, 1987. This trip featured N&W 1218 with a coal train and N&W 611... (more)

Newly restored Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 #261 stands in the snow on the BNSF next to the FO 261 Minneapolis Junction shop. 261 was making a couple of break-in runs on the pocket track adjacent to the ... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 does some test runs back and forth at the shop so the crew can make sure every thing is working smoothly before it hits the mainline this May up to Duluth for its first public e... (more)