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)

Spotless Milwaukee SD40-2's 197,159 are on the point of Soo train 910 as they switch a few pulpwood gons at Trout Lake, The Soo had just bought the Milwaukee Road a couple of months before this ph... (more)

WC 6639,1752,3021 wade through some wet snow on an early Dec. day. The 6639 was originally a N&W, then a W&LE unit that I think came to the WC from MK. In any case it had called a number spots hom... (more)

MN&S 40 and Soo 4448 team up on train 910 as it pulls around the wye at Trout Lake to clear the Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie line so a waiting train 909 can head west. Soo used to have many meets at... (more)

WC 4508, 585 have assembled their train in the yard at Trout Lake and are slowly backing around the wye connection and will soon be pounding over the diamond that crosses over the track they are p... (more)

Even near the end of the F-unit era on the Soo Line single F's would be often called upon to work local freights. These units had been well maintained by the craftsmen that worked at Shoreham Shop... (more)

The winter of 1976-77 was one of the worst ones on record in Upper Michigan with lots of snow and wind. This shot has Soo train 912 working its way east with 503A leading Soo's lone F3B, 2200C and... (more)

WC 2554 has put the 39 cars of train 41 together in the yard at Trout Lake and is backing east to clear the wye switch and will then head westbound on the line to Newberry and Munising. By this ti... (more)

Soo GP7 377 is the power for Russel plow X-183 as it works it's way west widening the trail through deep snow that it had made the previous evening. The plow extra had just spent the last three ho... (more)

In a sure sign that both the Soo Line and Upper Michigan were in for a very long winter, 2229B and 2500A roll 19 cars west toward Marquette on a chilly, snowy mid-October afternoon.

CN assigned a number of these GP38-2's to former WC lines after the merger. These units seemed to be in the best shape of the four axles that CN sent to replace the WC's vintage fleet. This is tra... (more)

A Upper Michigan Taxi Cab heads west on the afternoon of April 12, 1981. The Soo at the time was running quite a few extra trains on the Sault Ste. Marie-Gladstone line. There did seem to be an im... (more)

WC's lone SD40 tackles a short 6 car train 543 departing Trout Lake in the evening.

Plagued by seasonal power shortages the Soo normally had leased power roaming the system in the dead of winter. Regrettably that meant dealing dealing with clouds and low light most of the time ph... (more)

CN train 412 is running quite a bit behind schedule allowing for a rare daylight photo op in the Trout Lake area. WC 6005 leads gray ghosts 6943,6901 and 147 cars through the Upper Michigan forest... (more)