Milwaukee Road 261 is back home at Harrison Street in Minneapolis after its mainline romps to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Dells and Sturtevant over the weekend.

Big steam, mainline running, mainline speeds. What could be better? Just chatted with Judy Sandberg and the crew is extremely happy, ticket sales were 98.2% of available seats.

And advance sales for the trips to Cologne, MN in July are going well too!
Many thanks to all who bought tickets and rode with the 261 crew for supporting big steam!

More trips to come too!

Regards,
Doug

Thanks for the info. I saw some photos posted over on railpictures.net and saw she was flying pirate colors. Very coo! What's up with that?

Tom,
Steve rolled out the Jolly Roger on Tuesday morning before departing Milwaukee for all of the crew to see. At Redwing, MN, during the grease stop, Steve placed it in the right side flag holder. To quote Jimmy Buffett....

"Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late,
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate....."
From "A Pirate Looks at Forty."

The song and the "colors" sort of sum up the feeling of the whole crew.

Don C.

I was wondering if there was a little Jimmy Buffett influence there.

Shiver my timbers, Jim boy!

Robert Newton