I'm standing at the top of the ramp that held Shops Road and went down into the shops from Canal St.. Looking west at the top of the photo and on the right is Milwaukee County Stadium where at the... (more)

Two of the very few Milwaukee Road passenger locomotives I never had the pleasure to run was the 105A&C. Both locomotives were assigned to Western Avenue in Chicago working commuter service betwee... (more)

Looking like the 97C is ready to pull the Hiawatha after two years in freight service being replaced by F40C's it will be our lead unit on train 254 doing way work all the way to Milwaukee. I'll g... (more)

Milwaukee Road 93A has been put out to pasture as brand new EMD F40C's have replaced the aging F-unit fleet of the Milwaukee Road's commuter operation in Chicago. Graced with an old Rock Island P-... (more)

Milwaukee Road.... Pacific Car and Foundry Renton,WA... caboose 2300 99 added for computer functions......caboose 2300 and 2301 were built in 1975 for coal train service on BN specifications.In it... (more)

Watertown Patrol stopped at Sun Prarie,WI..I'm firing for Milwaukee Road Engineer John Hahn we've both caught the Patrol off the Milwaukee board. Back in those days the Watertown board was filled... (more)

Built by GM EMD in 1954 as MILW 2394 the 244 holds a special place in my early RR career. We were on train 83 a Chicago to St.Paul hotshot back in the mid 60's. I was firing for Engineer Harold Sa... (more)

#261 steps out from Duluth across to Superior without diesel assistance. A planned return to Duluth in June 2018, billed as a PTC fundraising effort, was designed with cooperation from Amtrak, in... (more)

"Ya' in, ya' out? Ya' in, ya' out?" as a popular syndicated radio host might say....there is a June 2018 return to Duluth scheduled for #261, but will the recent Amtrak declaration get i... (more)

We're stopped eastbound at Portage Jct. on the Thunderhawk. I get a chance to get a shot of one of the GP40's that replaced the four that were wrecked in Okauchee back in 1968. The 2068-2071 were ... (more)

We're climbing Brookfield Hill on the westbound track between Elm Grove and Brookfield,WI.on the Milwaukee Road's Chicago-Tacoma mainline. As you look out the Engineer's windshield you see westwar... (more)

It's another Sunday and the shops are quiet. I'm probably called for #65 or #213 but I'm early so I can take my own little shop tour. I've walked from the Caller's office to Station Zero where the... (more)

Milwaukee Road sleeper Raymond languishing near the coach shop in West Milwaukee Shops waiting disposition as is stenciled in white small print on both ends of the car. When I got called for a wes... (more)

We're stopped on the eastward main track at Voltz in a heavy Wisconsin fog. Voltz was a couple of sidings off the eastward and westward mains just a couple of miles west of Watertown with power sw... (more)

A insulated boxcar special from Chicago with two passenger geeps from Milwaukee Road's commuter pool cross the main drag at Arlington,WI. with a canning season special. Once the cars are spotted t... (more)