One has to wonder how many times photographers like Richard Steinheimer, Ted Benson, and Ron Nixon stood on the platform of the Missoula, Montana Milwaukee Depot. Their hope? The headlight of a MI... (more)

Ah, the impetuousness of youth. We saw this, snapped a few casual shots, maybe spending 15-20 minutes and dashed off in search of something else. We should have stayed and savored for hours, eve... (more)

An otherwise fruitless day, because the railroad was down to a couple of "dead freights" daily, found this local with someplace he needed to be, charging by the station under long unused wires. H... (more)

One of the last operating units of this type in America, even then. We must have driven 200 miles out of the way for this one. Boy could it kick cars, just open the throttle and it loads. I thi... (more)

A pair of Milwaukee Road trains meet in the morning light on the Milwaukee trackage that ran alongside the CNW at the depot in Janesville. F7A's 79A and 76C with a freight heads west out of the 5... (more)

A "Little Joe" is seen leading a eastbound manifest in the Bitterroot mountains east of Avery. The EF4 class were 10 strong, and lasted another 2 years. Originally destine for Russia, they were le... (more)

MILW 261 powers a freight out of the yard past the stopped Olympian Hiawatha as seen from the Skytop Dome Cedar Rapids. The other patrons had gone into town to wait for the arrival o... (more)

Steve Sandberg and the MILW 261.

The 261 gets a blow down as it prepares to back up out of the yard, enter the mainline, then head back north into Union Station. The boom shovel truck in the bottom right was used to pick up the 2... (more)

Milwaukee Road #261 makes good time shuttling 9 gondolas to interchange with the Twin Cities and Western in Buffalo Lake, MN. Once a two track main, the line is now single and sees mostly TC&W t... (more)

ON a lazy Sunday afternoon in October 1977, a muscle car sits at a set of fuel pumps in Bellevue, Iowa, as a set of Milwaukee Road Funits trundle down the street with a long grain train from Iowa ... (more)

An ancient Milwaukee Road reefer sits alone in the yard at Butte.

Little Joe E70 leads an eastbound freight along the Clark Fork River on its way to Alberton and points east.