Beauty and the beast. The beautiful snow dusted mountain peaks contrast sharply to this once proud Milwaukee Road passenger engine. Not sure what became of it.
Two Milwaukee Road Hiawatha passenger trains at Chicago Union Station, circa 1950. Leading the train in the background is F7-class 4-6-4 no. 102. Photograph by more)
Highball, Duplainville! Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder, cruises by Duplainville Tower in July 1984, with Milwaukee Road Skytop Cedar Rapids carrying the markers. The tower stood guard... (more)
Milwaukee Road 1626 sits in Montevideo at a small railroad park that includes a caboose, a crane, several passenger cars, and a turntable.
A Milwaukee Road eastbound is about to pound the diamonds at Duplainville, Wisconsin, in February 1984. In the background waiting to go south is a Soo Line freight in Duplainville siding.
Milwaukee Road #261 and train crosses over the Mississippi River and join up with the BNSF for the final run into the Twin Cities.
Over ten years after America's 200th birthday, Milwaukee Road's contribution to the bicentennial is still showing its colors, albeit it very faded. Paul Meyer photo.
Three Milwaukee Road GP40s haul a westbound freight at Brookfield, Wisconsin, on March 16, 1986.
A set of F units at the Crivitz Station. Crivitz used to be known as Ellis Junction! (no relation...just an interesting fact).
Josh D grabs a shot of the 261 while Steve Sandberg loads the tender with coal.
The 261 lives again. Under steam again for the first time since 2008 after undergoing its federal mandated overhaul on this 1944 Alco 4-8-4.
Steve Sandberg and company have Milwaukee Road 261 under steam at Minneapolis Junction for the first time after its extensive rebuilding.
Hard to remember when a gallon of gas was below a buck.
Milwaukee Road 101A heads up a short freight train on display in the Cresco, Iowa, city park. The unit was placed here in 1985 and is supposedly operable.
