A rare treat leads NS 15T down the Pulaski District. A candy apple red Soo Line SD60.

A rare visitor on the old Reading Lines in the Lebanon Valley in 2014- Soo Line No. 6044 on the Allentown-Atlanta run. It's a typical Monday evening short consist.

Candy Apple Red

Hot ethanol loads bound for the Chemical Coast have a pair of Canadian visitors leading the way, the leader being one of only a few remaining SOO SD60s wearing ... (more)

A pair of Soo Line SD60's approach Archer Avenue with CP train 280 in tow.

CP 280 passes 31st Street on the Belt with a delightful pair of SOO SD60's. Clouds dominated most of the day, but I got a lucky sucker hole here!

CP 470 holds the siding at Camp Douglas to fix a sticking brake and to let Amtrak 8 pass.

An impressive lash-up pulls out of the siding at Bangor East, after setting out a few bad orders. Always a treat to catch a SOO SD60 on the point!

SOO Line lives! A SOO SD60 and a CP GEVO are the power for ethanol train K418. The string of cars it brought are off getting unloaded while another ethanol train waits up the track.

SOO 6044 leads the 470 train over a frozen Wisconsin River.

An empty ethanol train out of North Jersey rolls down the Mohawk Valley past the old New York Central freight house in Amsterdam.

I checked around and CN has had some Soo Line power in Iowa before. Had couple units off the BNSF in run thru grain train power. Now days though this is a rare bird for the CN in Iowa. The unit wa... (more)

SOO 6044 and 8769 lead a buffer car and 80 ethanol loads through Grassie, Ontario.

15T with a rare Soo Line leader passes the classic N&W CPL's at Newbern just south of Dublin, VA on this beautiful afternoon.

A rare visitor to Virginia, Soo Line SD60 #6044 leads westbound train 15T past the wreckage and debris left from 23G's derailment on July 15th, 2014.

After a hefty mid-winter snowstorm, a pair of veteran SOO SD60's and their train 2-491 have the honors of clearing the way. At 40 mph, the snow ridge doesn't stand a chance