At the west end of the Schiller Park-Chippewa Falls CTC segment hotshot 937 is moving into train order territory at Chippewa Falls with 6616, MNS 40, 4416 and 744 leading 81 cars. The MNS SD39's r... (more)

Old Soo Line locomotives gather around the Shoreham (Minneapolis), Minnesota, turntable on September 30, 1984. All four surviving F units were there; FP7 No. 2500-A on the right, F7 No. 2201-A in ... (more)

By 1982 the Soo F-unit fleet was gone except for a handful of snowplow service units. The Milwaukee Road purchase and its corresponding motive power chaos was in the future and things seemed to be... (more)

Soo never bought a new SD45 although the EMD demo units worked on the Soo for a couple weeks when EMD was barnstorming them across country when they first came out. Oddly enough the Soo purchased ... (more)

Before trains 909/910 were extended from Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie the Soo ran a local six days a week to handle the business that trains 911/912 didn't stop for. Most of the time it was a single... (more)

On a frigid March morning train 911 is Chicago bound at Gilchrist with 76 cars powered by 2203A,747 and 213A. Thirteen days to the first day of "spring" and nothing could have seemed farther away ... (more)

1984 was getting pretty late in the game to catch a pair of Soo geeps on any of the four daily Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie trains. I felt lucky to have caught this pair of ex passenger geeps leadin... (more)

Train 910 powered with 4403,711 and 2412 makes its way east out of a sag near Garnet. The short siding at Garnet with 60lbs rail wasn't used except for an occasional wood chip or pulp load. It onl... (more)

Late on a warm July evening Soo GP9 2400 works its way west with 41 cars over the jointed 80lbs steel of the Ex DSS&A line to Marquette. A single GP working this line wasn't very common. It will b... (more)

Soo 6600,776,551 wander westbound through a little fresh snow with a 59 car train 911 two miles west of Trout Lake. The 6600 would be destroyed in a catastrophic head on collision in the summer of... (more)

Single Soo unit works the CP's Duluth Yard as the city of Duluth rises up in the background. You would be hard pressed to recreate this scene today, as GP22ECO's dominate the bare bones operation ... (more)

A pair of Soo Line SD60s leads #200 on the BRC at ATSF Nerska. Thomas Szczesniak Jr. photo.

One of my favorites, a Soo Line SD60, roll west out of Pigs Eye Yard along the Mississippi River on one of the coldest days of the year. The sun has set causing the temperature to drop even furthe... (more)

Soo 4102 was destroyed in February 1996 when a runaway BNSF freight slammed into St. Paul Yard. Here its hulk sits at Shoreham later that year awaiting disposition.

Over 10 years after the Soo purchased the Milwaukee Road the patch on the side of 2025 is starting to fade. Little did we know it then but some GP40s would unbelievably wear their patched colors i... (more)