"Route of the 400"...Well is was at one time. CNW 4131 is switching a warehouse on Erie Street in Milwaukee's Third Ward in April of 1983. The Milwaukee Depot was a 1/2 mile north of her... (more)

MILW 5056 rests in the scrapyard on Jones Island with some RR cranes and an old gondola. The U25B would sit here for several years before being donated to the Illinois RR Museum. The fleet is also... (more)

The time on the clock tower appears to be about 9:30 as we see daily activity at the CNW Lakefront terminal in Milwaukee. There would be a NRHS Convention special running out to Clyman later this ... (more)

John's first morning in Milwaukee, Sept. 3, 1955, with Bill Rosenberg to attend the NRHS Convention that year. They just got off an Electroliner in from Chicago, and take a few shots around the te... (more)

A pair of GP60s work the industries on Jones Island as a now seldom-used gantry crane looks on. After collecting their salt and grain loads, they will pull 40 cars up the grade back to Butler Yar... (more)

It's big horsepower for the local Jones Island "Marsh Job" today with a pair of GP60s making the turn carrying 40 loads in tow westbound for Butler Yard.

MILW #147 crests Lake Hill on a beautiful Winter day in 1986. Lake Hill was deceptively steep, sometime requiring helper units to make it up the hill. The tower in the background was eventually bu... (more)

MILW 605 switches the southern most segment of their famous "Beer Line" in Milwaukee.

A standard pony leads a short 222 axle CP 470 east at the Wheelhouse Curve into Milwaukee where they will work in Muskego Yard.

A hospital train brings re-railed cars back to Butler Yard after a derailment. I'm surprised they didn't remove all the boxes from the Conrail van before they moved it.

Just a minor derailment northeast of C&NW's Butler yard.

MILW 5056 rests on Jones Island in Milwaukee before being delivered to the Illinois RR Museum. The Laker Arthur Anderson is best known for being the last ship to see or hear from the Edmund Fitzge... (more)

Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light L10 rests among the weeds at the recently closed Wisconsin Electric St. Francis power plant in April of 1988. Once used to shuttle coal cars to the plant, it has... (more)

The Milwaukee skyline makes a fine backdrop as CNW 4402 prepares to do some switching south of downtown. Once host to countless passenger trains (including several 400's) and a bustling freight bu... (more)

Milwaukee Road's Lake tower on the south side of Milwaukee, was burned by vandals in the summer of 1989. Although the SOO owned the tower at the time, I believe it was closed by the time of the SO... (more)