Despite a late arrival in blustery wind and spitting snow, the Milwaukee Road 261 steam locomotive and its 500-plus passengers arrived at the Duluth Depot on Saturday in an atmosphere of festive ...

WILLMAR - A piece of railroad history is chugging into town Saturday with a visit by the Milwaukee Road No. 261 steam engine. Willmar is the train’s last stop during a day-long excursion that starts ...

FARGO - A vintage steam locomotive will chug through southeastern North Dakota soon, pulling excursion cars and giving people a rare opportunity to see train travel as it was more than 70 years ...

Duluth will be the place to be for steam locomotive enthusiasts this weekend. And for the first time in years, more than 500 of them will arrive from the Twin Cities on a train pulled by the historic ...

WILLMAR -- A piece of history chugged into town Saturday with a visit by the Milwaukee Road No. 261, a steam locomotive restored to the heyday of the steam-powered train. Milwaukee Road No. 261 backs ...

Celebrate the return of steam to the Northeast Minneapolis railroad yards at 5 p.m. May 10 with the restoration of a 1944 Milwaukee Railroad steam locomotive. The public is invited to view the ...

WILLMAR -- A piece of history chugged into town Saturday with a visit by the Milwaukee Road No. 261, a steam locomotive restored to the heyday of the steam-powered train. Spectators waited in a cold ...

Duluth will be the place to be for steam locomotive enthusiasts this weekend. And for the first time in years, more than 500 of them will arrive from the Twin Cities on a train pulled by the historic ...

Steve Sandberg, who used to follow his grandfather to work at the Milwaukee Railroad roundhouse in South Minneapolis, today supervises his own train and crew on a 1944 steam locomotive he helped to ...

SILVIS, Ill. — Minneapolis based nonprofit "Friends of the 261" has purchased the former National Railway Equipment (NRE) shop complex located in Silvis, Illinois. The group plans to use the railway ...