MILW "Little Joe" E-73 pilots a quartet of westbound MILW EMD GP40s up the 2% grade of Pipestone Pass with the Tobacco Root Mountains in the background.

A trio of MILW GP40's rumble across the CNW diamond at Clinton. Although MILW 2066 was "bandit-ized" by the SOO, it still runs in its MILW paint. The diamond was removed in 1978, replaced by swi... (more)

This SD40-2 showed up at St. Paul looking like it was fresh out of the paint booth wearing the Milwaukee's final "Hiawatha" scheme.

On an otherwise cloudy day a sliver of light catches the units on this southbound train about to bang across the Soo Line in South Superior. Milwaukee Road had trackage rights on the BN from Dulut... (more)

A nice orange and black upload on Halloween. I'm sure the scary thing was the mechanical condition these refugees from Lines West were in when they showed up for storage in Minneapolis. This area ... (more)

After the Milwaukee Road abandoned its Pacific Extension a number of locomotives were stored at their Hiawatha facility south of downtown Minneapolis, including these two U25Bs.

A nice EMD lash-up pulls towards St. Paul Yard.

At Plummer junction, the hot eastbound is seen passing another eastbound waiting at the junction

This former Milwaukee Road E9 is stuffed and mounted at a nice railroad park in Deer Lodge, just east of where the Milwaukee's final spike was driven on its Pacific Extension.

The shell of a Milwaukee Road Hiawatha tail car grows older in the weeds at a small railroad park in western Minnesota.

Milw Road 2060 West rocks back and forth as it speeds down the right of way after departing Black River Junction.

At dusk, an eastbound Milwaukee Road fruit block waits to depart Avery.

The Milwaukee Road is ending its operations in the western United States. This is the 2nd to the last train, which is heading east with a collection of the remaining motive power and rolling stock... (more)

Milwaukee 992185 is now on display at the museum in Deer Lodge, MT along with a MILW Little Joe and E9A. One can go inside the caboose during open hours.

When 103C was new it headed up the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha between the Twin Cities and Chicago. When it was retired it went to "Bucksnort Junction," a railroad-themed diner at Tea, South Dakota... (more)