A pair of Milwaukee Road SD9s sits on the turntable in Bellingham between assignments.

As night settles over Avery, ID, one of the brakemen that will be working the train behind him looks over his car list. Behind him, other Milwaukee Road employees discuss tonight's operations. The... (more)

Late in the afternoon, Little Joe E70 holds the main with a dead freight, waiting for an eastbound symbol to emerge from St. Paul tunnel. Meanwhile, five Milwaukee Road MOW employees with a speede... (more)

After switching cars for a following train, Little Joe E79 rests a bit in front of the yard office before helping a 262 over the Bitterroots.

Against a classic Midwestern industrial backdrop, Milwaukee Road SD40-2s 24 and 25 depart the railroad's namesake city with a southbound freight bound for Bensenville Yard outside Chicago.

After several days of excursions on Red River Valley & Western trackage, to celebrate their 30th anniversary, Milwaukee Road 261 and its entourage head for home along BNSF's former Great Northern ... (more)

A pair of SD40-2's led by #137, still in Milwaukee Road colors, lead a grain train thru La Crescent, MN in July of 1987.

The Milwaukee Road 261 is headed to eastern North Dakota for a series of excursions this weekend on the Red River Valley & Western. The first leg of their journey from Minneapolis to Breckenridge... (more)

A rare good news story involving a depot..... A Soo Line Rail Detector truck sits in front of the Sturtevant, WI depot in July of 1986. Originally a MILW depot, it is still being used as an Amtrak... (more)

Rounding the bend at Norwood Young America and onto the TCW line, Milwaukee Road 261 gets back up to speed with the days excursion train in tow

The MILW Somers, WI depot is looking pretty bad in the April, 1987 photo. Somers was on the C&M division between Milwaukee and Chicago. The depot was torn down not long after this photo was taken.

The MILW Watertown, WI depot stands at the crossing of the MILW Chicago-Twin Cities mainline and the C&NW Clyman-Jefferson branchline. The C&NW depot is visible on the right side of the tracks in ... (more)

It's March of 1992 and the Roger Blough and the Phillip Clarke are getting ready to depart Milwaukee after laying up there for the winter. MILW 5056 hasn't and isn't going anywhere for a while. A ... (more)

The power and caboose for the Valley Owl local are parked between duties at Sumner, WA, located between Tacoma and Kent/Auburn. This was part of the UP/MILW joint mainline into Seattle and is stil... (more)

No. 24 leads a Milwaukee Road transcontinental freight west as it descends toward Kittitas, WA after climbing Boyleston Hill. Note the helpers cut into the train. Milwaukee used radio controlled m... (more)