"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, ...

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 ...

As more steam engines were added, more paid firefighters were needed. In 1875, Milwaukee established a full-time, paid fire department. The MFD faced numerous challenging incidents during its ...

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 Mid-Continent Railway Museum has launched a fundraising effort to return its celebrated steam locomotive, Chicago & North ...

Lesha Johanneck and her family waited nearly two hours on a chilly Saturday morning for Milwaukee Road No. 261 to reach Litchfield, and it was “completely worth it,” she said. “It was one of my ...