The 261 quickly steps across the Snake River at Grasston, highballing out of a slow order and on toward a meet at Cambridge.

The Milwaukee Road 261 slowly pulls around the curve and under many adoring fans at Brook Park as it continues its trip back home to Minneapolis from Duluth.

Milwaukee Road 261 and the Fall Colors Excursion consist gleam in the setting sun in Northern Minnesota.

MILW 261 rests in the back yard of the Duluth depot after a hard day pulling a passenger excursion from Minneapolis to Duluth. It is scheduled to return to it's home in Minneapolis today (Sunday... (more)

Long after most people had left , the crew is still working into the night to get MILW 261 ready for the trip back to Minneapolis. Here they are taking on coal by the light of the moon and with a... (more)

A couple of impressive pieces of machinery share the yard at the Depot in downtown Duluth, MN.

Just a few yards from crossing into Minnesota for a stop at the Depot in Duluth, MILW 261 steams under the Bong bridge which links the two states. This shot was possible due to construction resul... (more)

Smoke is rising over Minneapolis Junction! No. 261 has a fire in its belly and is being steam tested in preparation for its upcoming trips to Duluth.

Rebuilt MILW GP9s wait for their train to St. Paul to be readied at Northern Pacific's Rice's Point Yard in July 1969. Milwaukee Road utilized trackage rights on NP and later BN between St. Paul a... (more)

A former Milwaukee Road café-parlor car sits landlocked on a ranch near Livingston. It had been used in maintenance-of-way service before being sold for private use.

MILW GP30 No. 1011 heads a trio consisting of two GP30s and a GP9 being readied in minus 22 degree weather at Pig's Eye Yard in St. Paul, MN for their next assignment. The winter of 1969-1970 was ... (more)

In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana. The abandonment of the “Pacific... (more)

Before Illinois Railway Museum's annual Diesel Days parade kicks off in the afternoon, a variety of classic locomotives including MILW 37A, an Ex-UP EMD E9A, NP ALCO S1 14, and MILW 760, the first... (more)

Fish Creek Canyon lies on Milwaukee Road's Pipestone Pass. The 5 mile Canyon section of the pass was amongst the least photographed of the many miles of spectacular mainline due to its inaccessi... (more)

This is the remnant of the Fish Creek Viaduct on the Milwaukee Road's Pipestone Pass. Fish Creek Canyon was one of rarely photographed locations on the the Milwaukee Road's Pacific Extension. Th... (more)