Milwaukee Road Fireman Warren Huck on the Empire Builder gets orders hooped up to him from Telegraph OPR. Rick Tessman at the Portage depot. Rick will go on to be a Trainmaster in Milwaukee for th... (more)

251’s Last Stand

Although Alco exited the locomotive business in 1969, Canadian subsidiary MLW continued building locomotives for the North American market into the 1980’s. Their l... (more)

47 years ago this photo of two TR2B's or what I called "HUMP B-UNITs" was not unusual at Butler Yard........but on July 25/26,2019 the UP steam schedule states that the BIG BOY 4014 may ... (more)

Since it's supposed to be over 100 degrees in a lot of parts of the country and around the world....I thought this photo would help cool things off abit..........Back in the day.....the Green Bay ... (more)

I hired out on the Milwaukee Road with Chief Dispatcher Harry Martin two months before I graduated high school in Milwaukee back in the mid-60's......broke in as a Telegraph Opr. Towerman/Leverman... (more)

While Adam's train waits at the westend of what we called Lewiston marsh at what was once the village of Newport as Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder approaches from the west........Adam Farence P... (more)

Back behind the Milwaukee Diesel House with some rebuilt and non-rebuilt SD's........in the back round the boiler shop and the back shop offices. Power house was to the left of the photo. Units we... (more)

Trains 91 and 66 was a River Division assignment from St.Paul's Pigs Eye Yard to Camp 20 Lacrosse Yard and back. Here 91's engine and caboose sit in front of the depot at Lacrosse,WI while the cre... (more)

The pride of the fleet train 261 the XL Special leans into a right hand super-elevated curve climbing the sub-continental divide through Elm Grove,WI. on it's carded 55 and a half hour trip from C... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha passes Milwaukee Road's Ford train and is about to crossover from the eastward back to the westward main track at Pewaukee after running wrong main from Duplainville.... (more)

Fresh from EMD and ready for it's first trip to Tacoma is a brand new 201 sitting behind the safety chains on two track in the Milwaukee Diesel House. The unit will be added to the XL Special this... (more)

For many years, Montana Rail link 840 local, also known as the Helena local, has been mostly powered by a pair of rebuilt SD40s (SD40-2XRs) that was sought out as a photographic subject in scenic ... (more)

CP Conductor Nick Glab waits as Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder approaches on C&M one main while his train is in the LAKE siding westbound. Conductor Nick hired out on the Milwaukee Road back in... (more)

Since our freight trains no longer came from the west coast this probably was a train from Duluth,MN.or St.Paul going to Chicago. Since I've had the honor and privilege of running freight and pass... (more)

We've cutoff our train on the westward track crossed over both mains at 3rd street and with a carload of company material for the section boss we've shoved in on an old foundry track just southeas... (more)