Montana is known for trout fishing and Glacier National Park, but perhaps less known and just as important to the state's identity is its railroad and mining history.

The Milwaukee's replacement of steam locomotion with electricity, which came to fruition in Montana in 1916, was intertwined with the history of the powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and a major ...

Photographs from 1978 show the Milwaukee Road operations and workers as the railroad faced closure across Montana. Donald Sickmiller started riding and working on the railroad in 1917.

The Milwaukee Road was a local railroad company who, like many others at the time, tried to monopolize increased travel to national parks. MPL Special collections librarian Greg Comly explains how ...

It’s been almost half a century since the Milwaukee Rail road shut down its operation in Harlowton, but pride in the railroad remains — as does environmental contamination.. A group of local ...

After the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Passenger Railroad Depot in Great Falls ceased operations, it could have faced possible demolition. But in 1971, Bobbie and Dan Snyder bought the building ...