The evening shift is underway for Bandit 4512. Drilling cars to be taken across to Stinson Yard in Superior.

A sliver of light illuminates an ex-Milwaukee Road GP38-2, fitting considering Milwaukee Road 261 had arrived an hour earlier. BNSF's ore dock complex can be seen in the distance and the thousand ... (more)

Soo Line 2719 steams alongside Milwaukee Road 261 at LSRM. Lighting by Chris Guss.

Snow flying (in May!) Soo Line 2719 poses with BNSF SD70ACe 9127 for National Train Day at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Take a look at the numbers. Coincidence?

SOO GP40 4601, one of two original SOO GP40s on the roster, teams up with DM&E 3833 on G35 departing Bensenville yard.

The handful of former Milwaukee Road units still roaming around in faded colors likely won't last much longer as CP overhauls its fleet.

The orange and black on 4512 is fitting for this Halloween image and the scary element is the demolition underway on the roundhouse. Today nothing but a grass field can be seen here.

A nice looking Soo Line heavyweight passenger train display in Ladysmith. This display would take a direct hit from a tornado a few years later, tipping over the cars.

A former passenger geep awaits a call back to service at Shoreham.

Switchers that are not needed and ones requiring repair occupy the whisker tracks at Shoreham.

I can't imagine these bandits will last long in Milwaukee colors, but then again we said that 25 years ago....

SOO 2713 and caboose sit on display at the corner of Church & Monroe under a rather nice and updated roof.

Back when SOO was plentiful SOO 6038 leads 2241 into the Obico service track for a lift at Index Rd, a mile west.

Soo Pacific 2719 rests inside the warm and dry LSRM while a spring blizzard ramps up outside. As viewed through the rear porthole window of NP Russell wedge plow No. 19. The 2719 will get in some ... (more)

Geeps on Byron
Struggling up Byron Hill, south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, a Soo Line freight approaches the top on March 22, 1987. This was in the colorful Lake States era on this porti... (more)