This train operated over much of the 645 miles of electrified line in the west for the Milwaukee Road. Most passenger trains in the 1920’s and 1930’s would be traveling the through the Rocky ...

Sat., Feb. 18, 2023 Passengers on a Milwaukee Road train spent a cold and frightening two days trapped in a tunnel at Snoqualmie Pass, the Spokesman-Review reported on Feb. 18, 1923.

A historic Minneapolis train station found a new life as a hotel. Nearly 25 years ago, the former Milwaukee Road Depot was turned into the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot.

Amtrak also operates a long-distance train — the Empire Builder, which stops daily in Milwaukee on the way from Chicago to St. Paul- Minneapolis, and continues all the way to the Pacific Northwest.