Midwestern Images of the Milwaukee Road

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A pair of St.Paul/Kansas City freights meet at River Jct. Minnesota in 1985.The locomotive on the left is SD40-2 #201,the first in the "Hiawatha" scheme.
Photo by Todd Jones

SD-40-2 #146 pounds the CNW diamond at Grand Crossing in La Crosse Wisconsin on the point of an eastbound freight in 1985.
Photo by Todd Jones

Here's a four unit set of F's slumbering outside the Latta Indiana enginehouse.
Photographer unknown.

Looks like #110D was rushed out of the paintshop as the color break between the orange and black is not exactly "sharp".
Milwaukee,WI. Photographer unknown.

SD40-2 #141 leads two sisters on a freight along the Mississippi near LeClaire, Iowa in 1984.
Photo by Mark Lynn.

SD40-2 #188 leads an Eastbound Sprint train through the Hoffman Avenue interlocking in St. Paul Minnesota.
Photo by Fred Hyde.

Milwaukee "GP20" #967 and a pair of leased Southern SD24's make a pick up at La Crosse in the late 70's.The GP20's were rebuilt GP9's with 645 power assemblies,raising the horsepower to 2000 from the as built 1750.
Photographer unknown.

GP40 #2054 leads a westbound through Bryn Mawr Illinois.
Photographer unknown.

SD40-2 #209 gets a bath at St. Paul Yard in the late 70's.
Photographer unknown.

SD40-2 #3007 is almost new in this view from the early 70's.
St. Paul Yard.Photographer unknown.

Four SW-1's(called "Donkey's" by the crews)plow out the "Smokey Mountain"line.The SM ran from La Crescent to Austin Minnesota.
Location and photographer unknown.