Milwaukee Road SD40-2 No. 188 leads the westbound hotshot on April 5, 1986, at Brookfield, Wisconsin. The Soo Line merger is now at four months with the Milwaukee, but the orange and black locomotives still look good, especially in new “Hiawatha” paint.
An exclamation attributed to TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, it is this eponymous expression of which certain images convey man and machine versus nature . . .