SOO 701 gets a little attention at the Shops yard facility in Nort Fond Du Lac. Both the SOO and later, the WC, were very friendly at the time, and it was easy to get permission to photograph loco... (more)
A couple of worn Soo GP30's head the 41 cars of train 909 west at Gilchrist. 701 and 719 do the honors on this early March afternoon, the 701 never made it to the WC and was retired as a Soo unit,... (more)
Everything in ths shot is gone now. The Chief Wawatam (a steam powered railroad car ferry), the Soo Line and the GP-30.
A pair of GP-30s are pulling their train through the former copper smelting area south of Hubbell, Michigan, heading for Houghton, in December of 1976.