The pole line is still evident as a Hiawatha Service trains head south on Main One through Caledonia.
For several years in the early 1990’s, Amtrak would borrow some equipment from Chicago’s Metra to sub for Amtrak trains on the Chicago to Milwaukee “Hiawatha” corridor on Thanksgiving week... (more)
AMTK 408 gets a refill of fuel and water at its La Crosse, WI stop with train 18, the North Coast Hiawatha. Soon it will be on its way to Milwaukee and Chicago, having originated in Seattle, WA. N... (more)
After making its station stop at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Amtrak’s Empire Builder departs on June 28, 1993. The westbound train is approaching the N. 25th Street overpass on Soo Line’s former Mil... (more)
Soo Line train 11, powered by EMD GP30 Nos. 716 and 703, slowly moves west toward Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987. As the train approaches the Springdale Road grade cros... (more)
Amtrak 504 departs Milwaukee Intermodal Station with Eastbound Hiawatha 340.
Oh no! What was supposed to be the debut of Amtrak's newest locomotives on the Empire Builder turned out to be a complete disaster. Siemens ACC-42's 301/302 were supposed to lead #7 out of Chicago... (more)
On May 1st, 1971, Amtrak’s first westbound Empire Builder flies through Duplainville, Wisconsin with a quartet of BN F units. This is the same train featured in Pentrex’s Empire Builders to Mi... (more)
In April 1976, Amtrak’s North Coast Hiawatha is seen departing Milwaukee with a pair of SDP40Fs in the lead. Original Slide. Ron Texter Photo. Sam Foster Collection.
Former F40 Cab-Baggage cars have returned to the Hiawatha Service. An afternoon run heads south through the Kenosha County Village of Somers.
Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder storms past the site of the old Milwaukee Road depot in Sturtevant on its last lap into Chicago..
Amtrak 186 leads the Empire Builder West through Lyndon Station.
The WB Empire Builder begins it trip to Portland and Seattle as it approaches the Sturtevant passenger station.
A Hiawatha service train from Chicago pulls across the Hwy 20 bridge after making its stop at the Sturtevant station.
A Hiawatha service train from Chicago slows to a stop at the Sturtevant station.