Against a classic Midwestern industrial backdrop, Milwaukee Road SD40-2s 24 and 25 depart the railroad's namesake city with a southbound freight bound for Bensenville Yard outside Chicago.
CP 281 gets an odd leader, with the venerable GP38 leading a mix of 5 big CP units on the westbound manifest.
CP 2250 pulls a cut of cars out of CP's Muskego Yard located in the lower valley of Milwaukee, WI.
Just in the nick of time, I get NS 6935 as he climbs out of Muskego yard in Milwaukee, WI leading 287 WB. In the background, Miller Park awaits the arrival of the Brewers after beating the Cubs in... (more)
You can tell from this photo what the SS Badger was intended to do, haul railcars. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case in August of 1983. She would only load autos and trucks from the dock in Milw... (more)
Soo Line 2403 has left the mainline and is heading for Jones Island in Milwaukee, WI in June of 1993.
Could it be? CNW 6819 leads a westbound freight under Whitnall Avenue in Milwaukee, WI in December of 1986. My dad might have been the salesman for the P&H Harnischfeger overhead crane that is on ... (more)
It's March of 1992 and the Roger Blough and the Phillip Clarke are getting ready to depart Milwaukee after laying up there for the winter. MILW 5056 hasn't and isn't going anywhere for a while. A ... (more)
CNW semaphores guard the junction at St. Francis on a foggy day in October of 1984. The freight mainline to Butler is on the right, while the wye leading to Milwaukee is on the left. The passenger... (more)
CNW 4194 has finished switching the downtown Milwaukee area and is heading back to Mitchell Yard in November of 1995. They have just finished crossing the KK River Bridge and it is being returned ... (more)
It's no fooling, as one of the two remaining Soo Line SD60's leads CP 281 out of Milwaukee, bound for the Twin Cities.
CNW 4144 waits on the approach to the Milwaukee River bridge as the Laker Myron C. Taylor passes by. Milwaukee, WI July of 1996.
Soo Line 4446 switches Muskego Yard in July of 1993. The track on the right looks like a real roller coaster ride, but the main doesn't look much better!
On a beautiful afternoon, CP 470 heads east into Milwaukee, led by a KCS Southern Belle SD70MAC.
FRVR 2500 works CNW's Mitchell Yard in Milwaukee, WI in March of 1990. It will soon head to Proviso Yard in Chicago.
