Back Again:After making a round trip on the river wayfreight, SOO 6053 makes a quick stop at the service island. After being serviced, she'll go right back out on H20. Taken while off duty,... (more)

Getting Some Attention: After spending the day at the roundhouse, SOO 6053 gets some attention at the service island with some stable mates. Later tonight she will go out on H20, headed for... (more)

The depot at Heafford Junction was at the crossing of the Soo Line and Milwaukee Road in northern Wisconsin. Like so many depots of the era, the windows are already boarded up in this view from Ma... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Block Operator: Another piece of railroading lost to time is the station agent, or in this case, the block operator. Where train orders were in effect, the block operator would relay instru... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Note the second horn. A Roger Puta Photograph

A SOO SD60 leads its train down New Albany's East 15th St. as it nears its destination of Louisville Ky.

Rare bird. Soo Line 6405 (ex-KCS 627), a fairly rare SD40A, meets SD40-2 778 at Hoffman Ave. in St. Paul, MN in October of 1992.

SOO 6027 leads train 470 through Northbrook, passing the Milwaukee Road searchlights that are still guarding the plant at "Tower A-20."

Just Your Average Spring Morning: Trees turning green, birds chirping, neighbors going for a walk. Oh, and SOO 4598 shoving 1500 tons of grain up the steep hill to Ardent Mills in Hastings.... (more)

Soo Line 2403 has left the mainline and is heading for Jones Island in Milwaukee, WI in June of 1993.

CP 470 arrives at Bensenville on a perfect April afternoon. A Soo Line SD60 leads the way, followed by a UP GEVO and a CSX SD40-2.

SOO 6027 is in charge of eastbound train 470 on a sunny morning in Sturtevant, WI. On its way to Chicago, the old veteran splits a set of classic Milwaukee Road searchlights.

Soo Line's Jenswold Street Interlocking tower stands guard over a SOO/NP crossing in Duluth under the DMIR ore dock. The tower has been abandoned for a while when this picture was taken in Septemb... (more)