Running extra #287 passes Joe E79 at the Alberton yard office with a hot train.

Emerging from one of the many tunnels that defined the Pacific Extention, a Joe has tonnage moving west along US12 and the Clark Fork River nearing Alberton on this dreary September 1967 day.

Milwaukee Road 261 steams past Northstar 502, which is making a rare appearance at St. Paul Union Depot pulling a shoppers special for the holiday season. Over 3,000 people used the depot platform... (more)

This critter sat at the Deer Lodge engine facility. Looks like a Joe is getting ready over at the next stall, just another day for the laborer.

A young fan stands alongside Milwaukee Road 261 as it prepares to depart St. Paul Union Depot for the "North Pole." The Friends of the 261 operate "North Pole Express" trains ... (more)

Cedar Rapids has the markers on the Morning Hiawatha as it stops at the Dells, the bulk of the train sitting on the impressive steel bridge over the Wisconsin River. Summer 1967

Easing into it's stop at the Dells is the morning Hi, the CP boxcar in the distance forshadowing future changes on this mainline.

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)

A Milwaukee transfer is captured westward on the KCT nearing Union Station and eventually winding it's way across the bottoms to the Kansas side and western connections.

Late in the afternoon on clear day in July 1973, Milw Rd U25B No. 5007 and SD40-2 No. 3035 sit outside the railroad's big brick shops in Tacoma.

The Milwaukee had a small facility at Council Bluffs with an assortment of power waiting for assignment when John dropped by.

Right behind the caboose of a Milwaukee Road westbound arriving at Avery comes a railroad speeder. The railroad had speeders follow its freights as a way to put out fires started by sparks from th... (more)

Built by EMD in December 1950, Milwaukee Road F7A No. 47A sits on the north end of an A-B-A set in front of the shops near sunset. The railroad used this set of power to help trains up steep Tacom... (more)

The crew of Milwaukee Road Little Joe E79 talks strategy as they switch cars for another freight before leading a second 262 out of Avery over St. Paul Pass and the Bitterroot Mountains. Avery Yar... (more)

Looking like the Morning Hiawatha, MILW E9 35C gets a wash job at its station stop at North La Crosse with Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha. No Super Dome of Skytop obs, but it did have a BN Dome coa... (more)