A look at what once was the Milwaukee's Bensenville locomotive facility.

SOO LINE bandit 2010 is the lone motor in charge of switching out cars for a freight to go eastbound. SOO 2010 started out as MILW 190 in October 1966 and continues on with original paint bleeding... (more)

SOO LINE bandit 2010 is the lone motor in charge of switching out cars for a freight to go eastbound. SOO 2010 started out as MILW 190 in October 1966 and continues on with original paint bleeding... (more)

For a road that had such an allegiance to EMD the Soo had its share of roster curiosities especially early in the diesel era. A handful of FM's generally worked the Twin Cities and lasted long eno... (more)

In a photo from my collection by Karl Henkels Soo 393 sits by the Marquette Roundhouse. Only a few of the Ex DSS&A Baldwins received the received the Red/Off White and Black Soo scheme. Photo has ... (more)

A couple of big SD's in off a road job keep a locally assigned GP38-2 company at the Soo's 21st St roundhouse in the fall of 1981.

Soo 2554 at Stevens Point in this unmarked slide from my collection(possibly Joe Stauber). The Soo passenger geeps in the 550 and 2550 series came with Mars lights and roof mounted air tanks which... (more)

Soo GP-9 2554 was damaged in a derailment at Denham, MN on Sept. 23, 1978 and was sent to Diesel Electric Services a re-builder in the Twin Cities and came back as something christened a GP-22. Pa... (more)

northbound SOO train using IHB trackage rights Blue Island Jct, IL

An A-B-A set of Soo F's roll train 911 west at Garnet with 76 cars. FP7 2501A leads 503C and 212A on this cold morning. Sets like this were so common between Gladstone and Sault Ste. Marie in the ... (more)

Everyone that ended up being interested in trains probably has one particular unit that "did it" for them...well this model was mine. My earliest childhood memory of trains revolves around the big... (more)

A young man enjoys some fishing while 2556 works the east end of Stevens Point yard on a warm June morning. This unit was destroyed a few months late at Roseport, MN when a cut of cars rolled down... (more)

Soo 395 at the Marquette Roundhouse. The 395 was built as Baldwin demonstrator 1600 in 1949 and went to the DSS&A in 1952. It was one of a few ex DSS&A Baldwins to get Soo paint. This unit was ret... (more)

Soo 2556 at Shoreham, it didn't take long to realize this geep had ran her last mile. Damaged along with 409 in a collision with a runaway cut of cars at Roseport, MN.

Soo 800 at Stevens Point. The Soo had parked most if not all of the ten U-boats as the economy underwent a slow period in 1975. The units had become kind of beat up looking since delivery in 1968 ... (more)