The first two "People of the Road" sculptures in the Menomonee Valley. A series of metal sculptures taking shape in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley honors the men and women who worked at a now-lost ...

William J. Quinn was the chairman and CEO of Chicago-based Milwaukee Road railroad in the 1970s and also held top executive posts at two other rail lines. Quinn, 104, died of complications from ...

Rising out of Chicago was another railroad providing a critical route to St. Paul, Minnesota. The Chicago & North Western didn't stretch as far west as the Milwaukee Road, but its path through ...

Bill Roepke grew up playing near, to his grandmother's dismay, the railroad tracks in the Menomonee Valley. Some of his ancestors worked for the Milwaukee Road. Roepke says as now an almost 50 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

which for years had bore a marker for all railroad travelers to see. Pearson, the Milwaukee's chief engineer, had hailed the completion of the road some months before as simply "the completion of ...