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)

Late running train 911, after being stuck with local work at Trout Lake and heading for a meet with a tardy eastbound extra at Gilchrist makes short work of the snow and cold as it rips through Ga... (more)

Not popular with the crews Soo's small fleet of U30C's never spent much time in Upper Michigan after their first couple years of service. They were slow to load, rough riding and were prone to mec... (more)

The hay is ready to be mowed as Soo 212A,742,214A head 911 and 90 cars west. The thing that really sticks in my mind about Soo F's was that they ALWAYS seemed to be leading trains through my homet... (more)

Soo 761,739 with a cut of paper loads just behind the power head a short 40 car train 911 west. There is not a lot of daylight in Upper Michigan near the first day of winter and the thermometer wa... (more)

Soo Line seemed to be perpetually short of power through the 60's and 70's. Leasers tended to show up every fall and winter and normally would hang around until spring. Most of the time it was GN ... (more)

Soo 2550,408,727 and DIT Ex D&H, Ex MN, shark nose 1205 bound for the E&LS highball past Gilchrist with the 109 cars of train 911. The 2550 was an ex passenger geep and has recently lost its gyral... (more)

Soo 765,755,4436 have train 911 and 55 cars rolling through fresh snow on the curves near Garnet. The Soo had already re-routed most COFC traffic off this line and it now is surviving on mainly fo... (more)

Soo #911 has been battling blizzard conditions since leaving Sault Ste. Marie over 6 hours ago. Originally powered by only 768 and 409 with 131 cars the train more or less ran at 10MPH all the way... (more)

Soo 2229A,713,2225A head a tardy train 911 with 74 cars westbound at 2:45PM. A couple days past the first day of spring on the calendar, but you would never guess it by the cold winds and powder s... (more)

One of only four late model F3's left on the Soo's roster at the time, heads an extremely late train 911 a couple miles west of Trout Lake. It's been over 30 years but I seem to remember that the ... (more)

A bunch of Soo Line roster rarity's are on the point off this train 911 back in 1979. The 722 was one of ten GP35's on the Soo, but was the only one riding AAR type B trucks off a retired Alco FA.... (more)

By the time I started shooting slides in the fall 1976 the chances for Soo Line F-unit sets were greatly diminished. While there were still 44 F's at the time, they were more often than not just ... (more)

Soo 2225A,737,502C thunder westbound through Caffey with 94 cars on train 911. The crews preferred second generation hood units for leaders, but on this day 2225A was picked up at Trout Lake for a... (more)

Milw 152 and Soo 741 head a 60 car train 911 west into a setting sun late in the evening. The train has just crossed the Pine River and in about a mile will be crossing the West branch of the Pine... (more)