Milwaukee Road commuter train at Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago

June 1975

Photo by Mark Llanuza

Battle Scarred by Matt Diestler Via Flickr: “Former Milwaukee commuter F9A #94 (originally 84C) sits with a companion at Bensenville, Illinois.”

September 3, 1977

©Doug Edwards photo - original Kodachrome (M.J.Diestler collection)

Milwaukee Road freight train along York Road in Bensenville, Illinois

Caption: “It’s well below zero December 1977 one of the worst winters of 1977-1978.”

Photos by Mark Llanuza

Milwaukee Road Hiawatha at the Western Avenue yard

Chicago

1935

Photo by Mike Keim

Fairbanks-Morse locomotives at the end of their days near the MILW roundhouse

Bensenville, Illinois

September 1972

Photo by Bill Edgar

Crossing the Fox by joemcmillan118 on Flickr.

Milwaukee Road westbound commuter crosses the Fox River at Elgin, Illinois, as kids enjoy an afternoon of fishing below.

September 14, 1974 Photo by Joe McMillan

Milwaukee Road Hiawatha

John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library

The Lewis Collection

Caption: “A mid day scoot heads west past Bensenville yard with only one car, still lettered for the Milwaukee Road. Kind of fitting in that the F40C wears the Milwaukee herald, too.”

Bensenville, Illinois

October 7, 1975

Photo by Bill Johnson

Milwaukee Road freight train on its way toward Chicago, passing under the  viaduct that carried passenger trains on the Mundelein Branch of the North Shore Line. The North Shore Line ceased operations less than a year after this photo was taken. Today, the steel viaduct has been replaced by a pedestrian/bicycle bridge. The rails beneath still carry freight trains of the Canadian Pacific and Wisconsin & Southern, along with Amtrak and Metra passenger trains.

Rondout, Illinois

May 2, 1962

Photo by George Kantola

Milwaukee Road caboose 992087

Bensenville, Illinois

June 1, 1977

Photo by Bill Johnson

Milwaukee Rd F-units Bensenville IL,1976 by Mark LLanuza on Flickr.

Caption: “It’s well below zero along York Rd in Bensenville IL. The covered wagons have frozen anti-freeze hanging off the sides of their units with wind chill 20 below ..The crews are waiting to get the highball at B-17 tower staying warm inside.” Bensenville, Illinois 1976 Photo by Mark Llanuza

Milwaukee Road freight train moving past Rondout Tower

Note that the third and fourth locomotives have boarded-up windows, and the passenger car after that.

Rondout, Illinois

October 17, 1987

Photos by Marc Malnekoff

(via 0359-MILW 261 09-1998 | Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 261 is at the e… | Flickr)

Caption: “Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 261 is at the east end of BNSF’s Clyde Yard in Cicero, Illinois. Note the crews dismantling the Ogden Avenue overpass in the background.”

September 1998

Photo by Art Gross

Butte, Montana was kept alive by The Milwaukee Road. Here's what is left there for us to explore.

MILW F9A 93A Chicago by James Lewnard Via Flickr: Caption: “MILW F9A 93A backs down to its train in Union Station in Chicago.”

July 20, 1972

Photo by Jim Lewnard

(via MILW Boxcar 2113 | Milwaukee Road boxcar 2113 in BN’s Cicero… | Flickr)

Milwaukee Road boxcar 2113 in BN’s Cicero, Illinois yard in October 1979. Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.  

(via Vintage Amtrak | Ex GN/BN F7 9728 leads an Amtrak Milwaukee … | Flickr)

Caption: “Ex GN/BN F7 9728 leads an Amtrak Milwaukee train, with a Milwaukee Road Dynamometer car at Techny, Illinois in October 1972.”

Photo by Lou Gerard