Former Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 will make its first extended excursion in three years in October, powering “Harvest BBQ ...

Train tracks pass through the bathroom, at the Model Railroad Club of Milwaukee. Our Bubbler Talk questioner, Monique, also wondered about the club's building.

Sioux City and its railroad history will be the stars of the next two issues of The Milwaukee Railroader magazine, the quarterly publication of the Milwaukee Road Historical Association.

For more than 40 years, the Milwaukee Road railroad operated a passenger train route between Chicago and Omaha, Neb., that crossed Iowa and included a stop in Marion.