November is deer season in Upper Michigan, with both bow hunting and rifle season taking up most of the month. Whats that have to do with railroading you may ask? Things are surely different now b... (more)

CNW 4257 greets a bright morning sun at Iron Mountain coupled to a ancient flat car with what appeared to be a wheel less travel trailer. Surely it was in company service of some kind maybe for a ... (more)

AC 184,104,205,203 are southbound on train 12 nearing Sault Ste. Marie with 63 cars.

Just an overview of the east side of the Soo's Stevens Point roundhouse in 1978. We have U-boats 806 and 801, GP30's 705, 704 along with F7A's 212B and 2227B. Wish I could drive to Stevens Point t... (more)

Right after the Soo-Milwaukee merger a number of units were swapped from one property to the other even though operations were not fully integrated for a few months. The Soo had about 10 Milwaukee... (more)

PC 2028 awaits servicing at Dewitt in this photo by the late Bill Dechau.

After the Soo bought up the Milwaukee Road most of the Roads roster oddity's were quickly weeded out and things became pretty plain for a few years. The Milwaukee Rebuilt SD10,GP20 models along wi... (more)

Soo 212A,742,214A lead 911 west through some deep grass. The Soo often skimped on weed spaying and mowing along the right of way, depending on how profits were looking.This was one of those years,... (more)

It's 6:30 on a hot August evening in West Gladstone and three big C&NW C628's, 6713,6719,6708 are blasting along with 100 empties heading for another load at Empire Mine.

Before trains 909/910 were extended from Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie the Soo ran a local six days a week to handle the business that trains 911/912 didn't stop for. Most of the time it was a single... (more)

MEC 256,260,257,406 are about to depart St. J with 36 cars and will soon be making their way over the mountains on the line that passed through Crawford Notch.

Agent Orange anyone, I'm sure it wasn't that bad by this date. This Milwaukee defoliant special was stopped on the westbound main near New Lisbon being powered by 647. As I got into position for t... (more)

Soo 4418,4419 are busy loading the Chief Wawatum at St. Ignace. The Chief had just over a year left to operate as a carferry at this time. Business had dried up and the Chief was more or less back... (more)

Although action was fairly heavy all day at Grand Crossing the evening always seemed to be busiest. In short order on the Milwaukee side westbound you could see Amt. 7, the Milw. Ford train(think... (more)

Soo 394 rests in the ore yard at Marquette. Pairs of the big Baldwin AS-616's were normally assigned to work the ore yard and make the dock shoves at the time. Time was running out on 394 and it w... (more)