An unidentified F-unit rides the transfer table at the Milwaukee Road Shops in this photo taken from the 35th Street Viaduct in Milwaukee, WI in September of 1971. perhaps the most interesting a... (more)

As the long shadows before sunset eat up the contours of the Sierra Nevada Foothills, an eastbound UP manifest headed for North Platte, NE, emerges from the deep cut just west of James. In a few m... (more)

The two flagships and standard bearers of the Santa Fe Ry., the Chief and the Super Chief meet at Trinidad, Colo. on May 10, 1967. The combined Super Chief / El Capitan, with a working RPO, had ... (more)

Long ago, train 64 the "Niagara Rainbow" makes a regular stop at the remarkable old station there. Also in the background is BX tower for the interlocking for the L&PS. The station and ... (more)

The Jefferson Connection is in its last months of operation and of its very existence as a southbound detour train around Belden Hill enters that Former Erie main line at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. ... (more)

The motive power of a westbound materializes out of the swirling snow as it exits a cut at Ardara, Pa. For those who recall the event, this snow storm was the famed "Blizzard of '93" tha... (more)

CN GMD GP40-2W 9643 leads GTW SD40-2 5935 (ex-UP 4132, nee-MP 3182) and CN GP40-2LW 9414 eastbound near London, Ontario. A Dave Stowe Photo.

Looking out of Super Chief / El Capitan’s FP45, Train 18 is meeting westbound Train 23 the “Grand Canyon” behind two F units at Canyoncito, N.M. on March 7, 1968. Ahead for the Super is t... (more)

At sunset, an eastbound Milwaukee Road “Sprint” piggyback train approaches Signal Bridge 19 at Sheffield Tower in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1985. This is on the Kansas City Termina... (more)

It will always be The Milwaukee to me. Patched Soo Line SD40-2 #133 shows its' obvious Milwaukee Road heritage as it brings a train thru La Crescent, MN in July of 1987. Hard to believe this was o... (more)

Hurricanes are not the only source of major flooding as anyone who lived thru The Great Flood of 1993 can attest. The Mississippi river set many records that year. Over a month after the river had... (more)

Soo Line 1548 (ex-Milwaukee Road) switches Jones Island in Milwaukee, WI in January of 1993. Several boats are in the harbor for winter lay-up, including the Arthur Anderson, the boat that followe... (more)

A westbound Milwaukee Road freight crosses the Soo Line diamonds rattling the windows of Duplainville tower on a snowless Wisconsin winter day in February 1984.

A June 10, 1984, view from Illinois Highway 251 overpass sees an eastbound Milwaukee Road freight departing Davis Junction led by three EMD SD40-2s.

On a hot day in August 1983, a Chicago & North Western track crew gets a lift on a ballast regulator heading south on the Belt Line approaching Burleigh Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. A freight w... (more)