Wow! How often do you see a Bandit GP40 leading 2 AC4400s?

The sun is setting literally and figuratively on these old Milwaukee Road units. Taken with permission.

A bandit lays over with the SOO 4426 which will supposedly be rebuilt sometime soon.

A pair of SOO locomotives rolls eastbound through Franklin Park on a very cold winter day.

A bandit GP40 visits Glenwood Yard. All the bandits look pretty rough, but this one is particularly bad, especially with the red patches over the old rear marker lights.

With the US 30 Mississippi River highway bridge as a backdrop, Soo 2066 drags the daily TOFC across the CNW 5th St. interlocker headed to K.C. 2066 is still active on the CP roster in 2009, click... (more)

The M&P turn heads back to Portage with a bandit in the lead.

A bandit leads the branchline job back to Portage from Madison.

2066 runs light today on a Saturday Morning Special. Approching the first grade crossing from the north in Windsor WI.

Not to be outdone by UP, CP assembled their own "Heritage" lashup on Saturday's eastbound #284 consisting of three ex-MILW GP40s in varying stages of decaying SOO "bandit" paint. Leading is 2066 (... (more)

A four pack of ex-Milwaukee Road bandits lead two more engines on a manifest bound for St. Paul. Power was SOO2066, SOO1537, SOO2010, SOO2016, CP6064, & SOO4435.

An old road warrior rests on this Saturday night.

Soo 2066 sits waiting for clearance with another GP40 in tow and a pair of SD40-2 units. MNNR C424 313 and RS27 316 and others are all shut down at the roundhouse...