Soo 2226A, 779, 2203B are just starting to get train 911 rolling with 130 cars on a dark, cloudy November evening. The rear end guys will be on the caboose in about 25 more car lengths and it will... (more)
Milwaukee Road 186 and 196 lead a short 21 car 911 into a bright sunset that has cast a golden glow on the grimy lead unit. Train 911 is now nothing more than the only daily westbound job on the S... (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)
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)
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)
