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)
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)
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)
Milwaukee Road owned six of these FM "Baby or Junior Trainmasters", and I've spotted two at St. Paul over the years. The 550 is photographed in Pigs Eye yard handling some switching. I h... (more)
MILW 651, an SW1200 built in November 1954 cools off outside the Pigs Eye Yard next to the roundhouse. The unit will serve MILW for 12 more years, being retired in February 1985. Next to 651, Bald... (more)