CNW 6816 leads a westbound freight past Saint Francis tower in Milwaukee, WI. in March of 1987. The iconic semaphores that guarded the junction have just been replaced by searchlight signals and t... (more)

FRVR 815 is about to cross 91st Street in Milwaukee, WI. in May of 1989. 3 ex-CNW GP30's and a GP35 makes for a pretty neat consist. The train has just left CNW's Butler yard and will soon turn no... (more)

CNW 4559 approaches the junction at St. Francis WI. with the Marsh Job in November of 1988. The train will take the west leg of the wye and head north to serve customers along the old passenger ma... (more)

Soo Line 6058 leads an eastbound freight under Milwaukee's 35th Street viaduct in December of 1993. The Soo only had 5 SD60M's so it was always nice to catch one leading. Much has changed in this ... (more)

Big MAC Going Solo. KCS 3910 is all by itself on a 126 car CPKC 247 this afternoon, as it slowly makes its way west out of Milwaukee. You really can't beat the Southern Belle paint scheme a... (more)

CNW 4133 works the warehouse just east of the Summerfest grounds in Milwaukee's Third Ward in August of 1984. This was once the "Route of the 400" when CNW's Lakefront depot was still in... (more)

CNW 6889 leads a seasonal ore train at Airport Siding on Milwaukee's south side in January of 1990. The train is on CNW's New Line and is bound for interchange with the EJ&E on the north side of C... (more)

KCSM 4570, a CP rebuild and a KCS GP38-2 head out of Milwaukee with 247. The leader still wears KCS gray.

Train 247 slowly makes its way west out of Milwaukee with a KCSM AC44 still wearing its gray ghost paint scheme. Third out is a Southern Belle GP38-2.

CPKC 149 passes a vintage building that's been tagged by graffiti artists in Milwaukee. Untagged, however is the leader of the train, KCS 4805, which is proudly showing off its new CPKC paint sche... (more)

KCS ES44AC #4805, looking good in CPKC's official paint scheme, slowly leads train 149 out of downtown Milwaukee.

The Borealis slowly makes its way out of downtown Milwaukee with Phase VII #82 leading the way.

The outbound Borealis train to Saint Paul splits the signals at "Milwaukee W", led by a P42DC in the Phase VII scheme.

CNW 7033 has departed CNW's Butler Yard (Milwaukee, WI.) and is about to duck under Hwy100 and Blue Mound Road in April of 1993. The train will likely enter the New Line at the junction in St. Fra... (more)

Y501 is just about to enter the CPKC main at Grand Avenue. They'll make the short jaunt to Muskego Yard, where they'll interchange their train of freshly built Oshkosh military vehicles.