A Milwaukee Road westbound transcontinental freight has pulled onto Pacific Coast Railway trackage at Black River Junction, south of Seattle. The train is switching cars at its Black River Yard be... (more)

MILW E9 no. 35C gets its face washed at North La Crosse, WI as the North Coast Hiawatha (Amtrak) makes a station stop for passengers, a crew change, and water for the locomotive tanks. During the ... (more)

Milwaukee 576, an RSC-2 rebuilt into a low nose RSC-2.5 or 2M, shows off its damage at La Crosse, WI in July 1972. The unit was damaged on its train as it passed by Eau Claire Sand & Gravel after ... (more)

Getting up close and personal with a hump retarder in action is not for the faint of heart. Especially on Milwaukee Road in 1972. Here we have a boxcar getting clamped as it progresses down the hu... (more)

After years of deferred maintenance, Milwaukee Road had to finally replace the first of three diamonds near Eau Claire Tower. This diamond was owned by MILW and served three purposes. First it was... (more)

The WICT, ex MILW depot in Monroe, WI faces an uncertain fate in October of 1989. Built by the Milwaukee Road in 1888, the depot would eventually be saved, moved, and become a cheese museum.

A Milwaukee Road SW1 switcher returns across the Chippewa River bridge to the yard after working west side industries in Eau Claire, WI. The three truss bridge was light weight restricting diesel ... (more)

MILW 261 rolls through Henriette, MN on the first of two fall color excursions in October 2015. This trip was from Minneapolis to Superior on BNSF's Hinckley Sub. The next day, she traveled to Wil... (more)

Milwaukee 409, an FM H-16-44, is sitting behind the roundhouse at Bensenville in September 1972, two months before it was officially retired. Unofficially it would appear it is being used to suppl... (more)

Sequentially numbered Milwaukee Road GP30s 1002 and 1003 sun themselves at Savanna, IL between runs on a snowless early January day in 1976. Unusual for their Alco trucks, the GP30s were in the ec... (more)

The fall sun sets on MILW 2052, a non-dynamic brake GP40 mated up with a dynamic brake version as they pull to a stop to wait out the passing of a BN coal train at Dayton's Bluff. This location is... (more)

MILW 731, a venerable Fairbanks Morse H-12-44 hums away at the Janesville, WI roundhouse in September 1972, not far from its birthplace of Beloit, WI in March 1952. The earlier switchers like this... (more)

MILW 171 starts its' assault on Lake Hill on Milwaukee's south side in March of 1985. The location was known as barking dog 2 for a dog that would always be barking if you were nearby.

Times are tough in fall 1982, and Milwaukee Road was storing some of their locomotives. Here we have 7 GP20Ms parked at Pigs Eye Yard not far from the roundhouse area. These Geeps were rebuilt fro... (more)

MILW FM H-16-44 434 looks to be in good shape at Savanna, IL in January 1976, but most likely never turned another wheel in revenue service as it was retired in February 1976. Milwaukee was a larg... (more)