CNW big hook #6359 is on display during Butler RR days in June of 1983.

A rebuilt SD40, now an ECO unit, leads a funeral train of a pair of DME SD40s bound for their demise at the scrap yard shown here past Grand Ave and Miller Valley

THAT'LL DO! The Soo Line (ex-MILW) had a minor derailment in their yard in Milwaukee in May of 1989. Good thing the speeds were slow!

CNW 4331 has derailed near National Avenue in Milwaukee and is waiting to be re-railed. An snowstorm has piled snow perfectly on the engine before the re-railing crew arrives.

Crossing Pine Avenue in Milwaukee in Jan of 1984. This bridge would be set on fire by vandals and eventually replaced.

Yes, it is 3 degrees out this early morning as a Milwaukee Road freight led by GP38-2 #352 waits for Amtrak #332 to pass before it departs Milwaukee and continues its journey south to Bensenville.... (more)

Soo Line 4231 switches the dock at the Port of Milwaukee on Jones Island in July of 1993.

In the winter of 1985/86, the CNW KK River bridge in Milwaukee broke/froze so the CNW had to detour over the MILW/SOO to get to the industries north of the river. Here we see 2 Geeps passing thru ... (more)

The Afternoon Hiawatha. A Roger Puta Photograph

A trio of C&NW Geeps brings the transfer run from Jones Island past St. Francis Tower. The tower used to govern the junction of the passenger line and the freight by-pass in Milwaukee. Today, the ... (more)

CWRR 1207, nee WIWR 1207, nee CWRR 783, nee MILW 783, sits in the Miller Compressing scrapyard in Milwaukee, awaiting her fate in August of 1985.

BN Desert Storm unit #1991 is a ways from home rails as it switches out some cars on the Soo Line (ex-MILW) mainline in Milwaukee. The unit still looks good in this shot from 1995.

A pair of CSX leaders get the call on the day's 470 mixed freight manifest. Here, they work east past a cluster of renovated warehouses near where the Milwaukee Road's Reed Street Yard once sto... (more)

Well that isn't going to work! A shifted load of lumber awaits some work in C&NW's Mitchell Yard in April of 1984.

CNW 4370 switches one of the few remaining industries east of the Milwaukee River near downtown Milwaukee. The crane appears to be a Bucyrus Erie Model 30B, manufactured only a few miles south of ... (more)