A pair of Soo Line SD40As are assigned together on an eastbound freight from Portage to Milwaukee and are working the interchange at Duplainville, WI with Wisconsin Central, which bought Soo Line'... (more)
Thief River Falls was once an important division point for Soo Line and rated this subtantial depot. The main tracks are just to the right of the building and remain one of two key lines connectin... (more)
After travelling across western Canada, we turned south at Winnipeg and crossed into Minnesota at Noyes. Just south, a northbound Soo Line train was completing its trek from Minneapolis to Noyes/E... (more)
I was a newcomer to Seattle in summer 1974, and a GN fan. What a pleasant surprise it was to come across GN 98, an SW8 built a few weeks after I was born, in June 1951, still wearing its GN number... (more)
By late 1970 things were pretty quite around the Minneapolis BN station. Only a handful of passenger trains made it to BN from its predecessors. I was wandering around the platform when all of a s... (more)