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 ...

Nearly 25 years ago, the former Milwaukee Road Depot was turned into the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot.

By Mark W. Olson No doubt about it – local railroad lines have been a key point of discussion this year. First came the March 23 collapse of a Union Pacific Railroad trestle bridge near ...

A $1 million federal grant will help Wauwatosa staff determine how to turn a steep, city-owned railroad ... train's path, according to a news release from the city. If built, the extension of ...

Around midnight, a wall of water, silt, uprooted trees, fences, livestock and other debris careened into the five trestle ...