The Milwaukee County Zoo's popular zoo train will undergo some changes this year. The train's two steam locomotive engines will leave the zoo; they've been sold to the Riverside & Great Northern ...

While working in his Litchfield machine shop one day in May 1997, Mark Dalquist heard what he describes today as the “unmistakable sound of a steam whistle.” “I had never seen it before, but I ...

The west end of the Great Northern and Milwaukee Road both had electrified ... need when smoke abatement laws prohibited the use of steam locomotives in large cities. In the west, electrified ...