#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)

Ist Trick Operator Earl Chappel hoops up orders to a Sprint Train Conductor(I feel terrible I forgot his name) in front of the Portage Depot under the overhanging jack-knife switch indicator.

Mike Keim Photo

Mike Keim Photo.

The new Hiawatha at Canal Street....Mike Keim Photo. Correction...4-4-2

When I started on the Milwaukee Road in the 1960's the Portage yard engine was usually an FM switcher or an Alco. In the 70's the Milwaukee got the MP15's and that pretty much was it until I left ... (more)

This 2-8-2 Mikado was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in 1922. This Baldwin Locomotive Works Builder's photo card is from the J. R. Doughty col... (more)

Ex-MILW 200A Blt 1956 then 30A now AMTK 405....looking new in 72!