Milwaukee road

Can you think of a 5-year interval, on any railroad, that offered more diverse motive power than 1955 to 1959 on the Union Pacific? I can’t either. Here’s a collection of images illustr…

The CMStP&P's Pacific Coast Extension took three years to build between 1906 and 1909, and once completed it was the best engineered route to Seattle.

High quality photograph of Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 # MILW 25 at Bedford, Indiana, USA.

After waiting 3 hours on a hillside in Rosalia, Washington here comes an westbound over a very unique concrete bridge that still stands today but without rails or even a railroad. I remember it was cold and windy! A favorite photo of mine was shot by our pal Chuck Heimerdinger who came up here to Dawson, Montana from sunny California back in the 1960s. The formatting on this photo is terrific showing the 2 kinds of electric locomotives they were running back in the good old days. Is today…

CMStP&P F7A 89C on a freight train at York & Irving Park Road in Bensenville, Illinois April of 1958. Jack Bailey photo. If you enjoy the photos and what Lake States is accomplishing, consider joining Lake States or making a donation, or both: www.lsrha.org/?page_id=135 Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/lsrha.org Follow us on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/199136368@N06 Follow us Instagram: www.instagram.com/lakestates/?hl=en #trains #railroads #railroadphotography #passenger…

High quality photograph of Milwaukee Road EMD SD9 # MILW 507 at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.