The Milwaukee Road 261 is the star attraction wherever she goes and Train Days at Saint Paul Union Depot is no exception as people line up to see her all weekend long.

A pair of Milwaukee Road EMD SD10s power a train through La Grange Park, Illinois, as it approaches the Harding Avenue grade crossing while working southward on the Indiana Harbor Belt/B&OCT main ... (more)

MILW 35A and an E9B have coupled on to Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha for its trip between Minneapolis and Chicago. The train is at the former Great Northern Station on Hennepin Avenue in downtown ... (more)

MILW 141 leads a westbound Soo Line freight out of the Milwaukee depot in October of 1986. It's only been 10 months since the SOO acquired the MILW so locomotives from Milwaukee's hometown RR are ... (more)

Fifty years prior to the other photos I posted today, MILW 35A posed at North La Crosse's station with Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha. The westbound train would stop at Winona and Red Wing, MN befo... (more)

Newport Tower, Newport, MN, was operated by the Milwaukee Road and was used to permit crossover between Milwaukee and Burlington trains so that the two roads could operate a shared track arrangeme... (more)

MILW 988 leads a trio of GP20ms sitting at BN's Rice's Point Yard, the former main yard of NP in Duluth. These "GP20 Uglies" were recently rebuilt from MILW GP9s. MILW used NP/BN's line ... (more)

MILW 101A leads another FP7, E9B & E9A on the Morning Hiawatha as the train glides downgrade and crosses BN's main on the approach to the Mississippi River crossing into Hastings, MN. The train ha... (more)

While snooping around the C&NW North Green Bay roundhouse I came across this EMD cab sitting along side the building. I think it was from an SD40-2, number unknown. No idea how C&NW ended up with ... (more)

At Bensenville, Illinois, on September 13, 1987, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 174 leads a locomotive consist back to their train at the west end of Bensenville Yard. Soo Line has owned the Milwau... (more)

MILW 579 enjoys some winter sun before crews put it to work on a turn to Winona, MN. Milwaukee's Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls branch generated a lot of traffic and rated 6 day a week service in the l... (more)

A new addition to the Cresco city park is a Milwaukee Road FP7 locomotive, box car and caboose.

It's been a year since the merger with the Soo Line, but the Milwaukee Road is still going strong. MILW 2064 is on the Milwaukee connection at Duplainville, WI. in February of 1987. 2064 still run... (more)

The Friends of the 261 North Pull Express makes its short run down the tracks from the Saint Paul Union Depot to the "North Pole" set up just east of the station. In the lead is the Nort... (more)

MILW 354 heads west from Sturtevant, WI. in May of 1985. The train is heading to a warehouse on a remnant of the old Southwestern Division. The short fuel tank on this GP38-2 is really apparent in... (more)