There was thunder in the Poconos as Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 261 takes 19 freight cars for a ride one summer day for a band of photographers. After an idea that was cooked up over a spaghetti dinner a... (more)

It was a stranger in a strange land, Milwauke Road 4-8-4 261 when it came east to participate in the Grand Opening of Steamtown National Historic Site in 1994. Making the most out of the paid-for ... (more)

The Milwaukee 261 rolls into Cambridge as the late afternoon shadows begin to take over.

Milwaukee 261 heads south through Braham with the return trip from Boylston to Minneapolis.

Milwaukee 261 heads south along the Hinckley Sub as the fall colors peak out on this perfect Autumn day.

The Milwaukee Road 261 westbound fall color excursion from Minneapolis to Willmar meets an eastbound BNSF freight at Howard Lake.

Milwaukee 261 blasts south through the blazing fall colors along the Hinckley Sub on the return trip from Boylston. For as awesome as the color was for this chase, their were surprisingly very few... (more)

MILW 261 and SOO 2719 simmer outside the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth on a cold May night. 261 has just made the trip up from the Cities, will lay over night and head back the next afte... (more)

The Milwaukee 261 and the face that has endured since 1944.

261's Fall Colors Excursion is fresh from its service stop at Hinckley. They're running a tad behind, but nobody here seemed to care as the light and colors were pristine. A big thanks to those w... (more)

A rainy and dreary day keeps us in the car, but it can't dampen the spirits of young and old alike who have turned out to see the famous steam locomotive my three year old affectionately calls "th... (more)

DM&IR 193 shuffles cars around to build the next day's passenger trains as 261 and 2719 sit side my side steaming it up on a beautiful but chilled May night.

Legends never die... they just wait to be reborn. Taken with permission of Friends of 261 staff.

Leaving Duluth. A tagged bay window BNSF caboose and switch crew protect the shove as 261 is moved out of Duluth and wyed at Mikes Yard in the western end of town while the paper mill switch and c... (more)

A morning of battling snow squalls, hail, wind gusts and rain pays off as MILW 261 finds a sliver of sun crossing the Kettle River in rural Sandstone, MN on her way north from Minneapolis to Dulu... (more)