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)

This clean SW1200 was working Gladstone Yard in the Fall of 1985. Most Soo SW's came without MU hook-ups so they ended up being hauled from yard to yard behind the road power on freights. No doubt... (more)

Only on the MMA you'll find SOO, DME and ex-BN pulling together. Bonus points for the RC caboose! MMA #2 is waiting for a crew for it's voyage to Maine.

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)