SORE-3 slows for a meet just ahead at Little Lake. Power is 6507 and 6656 on this bright February afternoon.

It's great when you arrive at a beautiful winter scene, get out of your car and randomly hear a train coming less than a mile away. What's not great is walking up to the edge of a river to get in... (more)

In the last summer of Soo Line operations in Upper Michigan a Milwaukee SD leads a former Milwaukee SW now in fresh Soo Line Red/Off White/Black west on train 12 with 47 cars at Caffey.

The Soo Line F-unit fleet was almost decimated by the time I managed this evening shot of 214A. I figured it was probably my last Soo F shot and I was right..at least as far as being in regular s... (more)

In this evening shot Soo 4227 and Milwaukee 192 have arrived at Trout Lake on train 12 out of Sault Ste. Marie. The units have cut off their train east of the Highway M-123 crossing and threaded ... (more)

Soo train 11 with 4230 and ex KCS 626 are nearing Trout Lake with 43 cars. The 4230 was renumbered away from the Soo 550 series to avoid conflicts with Ex Milwaukee SD10 rebuilds, most of which we... (more)

Triple seven pulls through the yard at Trout Lake with 807 and 133 cars on train 912. Every summer even as far north as Upper Michigan we would get periods of hot weather and the proximity of the ... (more)

Train 41 is backing around the connection and will soon be heading for Marquette with 30 cars in WC's first winter. The ex MP GP35m's arrived without their turbo's re-rated to 2000hp and had effec... (more)

WC 7513 heads west at Ishpeming with rock loads in the spring of 2002. Notice the signals have been deactivated and turned away from the track on this once busy section of joint LS&I/WC/CNW line.

LS&I had a fair amount of RS-3's to start with, but over the years they were replaced with more sure footed RSD12's,RSD15's,U25C's and U23C's. Finally by the mid 70's most all the RS3's were gone... (more)

From my slide collection by fellow Railpicture photographer Ron Cady.

CP 7099 on a transfer job from Sault Ste. Marie, MI to Sault Ste. Marie, ONT had pulled up to a red signal on the approach to the lift span over the Soo Locks. Trains delayed here back in the seve... (more)

CP 643 is pulling through the crossovers at the western end of Oakwood Yard as they depart for points west.

A Canadian bound ethanol train, CP 642, is only moments from entering the Detroit River tunnel as they pass the old Michigan Central depot. The engines were CP 6234, ICE 6102, DME 6362, and ICE 6... (more)