Milwaukee Road 8 Duplex Roomette-6 Roomette-4 Double Bedroom sleeper "Jefferson River", Kansas City, MO. It's been decades since the Pullman-built sleeper graced the road's premiere 'Olympian Hiaw... (more)

Milwaukee Road 'Little Joe' class EF-4 2-D+D-2 electric #E70 on display in Deer Lodge, MT. With 5,110 continuous horsepower and a top speed of 68mph, it's easy to imagine a pair of these 3,300 Vol... (more)

MILW Little Joe E76 powers up and leads three SD40-2s (3009, 3018, 3000) eastward out of St. Regis, Montana across the namesake St. Regis River on August 9, 1973. Following the river was the Nor... (more)

MILW Little Joe electric E73 catches some ZZZZs in the Deer Lodge roundhouse on Aug. 4, 1973. Ordered and built for Russia, but never delivered because of tensions, the streamlined GE electrics ... (more)

Box cab electric helpers were not always placed mid-train in Milwaukee's eastbound freights climbing the 1.6% continental divide out of Butte up to Pipestone Pass, Montana. On April 10, 1970 E29... (more)

The four SD-40-2s leading Milwaukee's eastbound freight come into view at the loop at Cedric, Montana as the caboose of the 120-some-odd car train sweeps by the camera in August 1973. Box cab el... (more)

MILW "Little Joe" E-73 pilots a quartet of westbound MILW EMD GP40s up the 2% grade of Pipestone Pass with the Tobacco Root Mountains in the background.

The Milwaukee Road is ending its operations in the western United States. This is the 2nd to the last train, which is heading east with a collection of the remaining motive power and rolling stock... (more)

Eastbound double Joe with dead box cab in tow pulls through the yard at Haugan

Train 262 is eastbound with Joe E20 on the point. They are approaching Alberton, MT for a crew change.

A pair of Little Joe's E79 and E72 are arriving Deer Lodge with an eastbound freight. This was the only train we saw with exclusive electrics on the train. All other trains had a mix of electric... (more)

A matching set of Milwaukee box cabs E47B, C and A are switching Missoula, MT. In 3 trips down there these were the only box cabs we saw in operation. Everything else was Little Joes or diesels.... (more)

Milwaukee had an interesting critter that was used as a shop switcher in Deer Lodge, MT. It operated by means of an extension cord connected to the roundhouse. During operation, they occasionall... (more)

Box cabs and the shop switcher sit in Milwaukee Roads's Deer Lodge backshops after a June thunderstorm

A Work train picks up scrap rail on the Milwaukee west of the Three Forks terminal