What do you do when your employer sends everyone home in the middle of a snowstorm? . . . you go out in it! On the snowy afternoon of January 25, 1990, a Soo Line westbound dashes through the snow... (more)
A head on wreck caused by one train overrunning the meet at Gilchrist. I heard on the radio that "2 westbound trains collided head on" (accuracy in the media!) so I highballed across the border (I... (more)
Houston...err I mean Minneapolis "we have a problem". The last of an unfortunate string of events for the Soo Line in Upper Michigan occurred on Halloween evening 1984 when the Soo Lift Bridge bec... (more)
The Lake Superior Railroad Museum's ex-Soo Line GP30 runs light engine up the north shore of Lake Superior clearing the line prior to an empty coal train arriving for winter storage.
There is no doubt that Soo 700 did its share of pilot plowing along the former DSS&A in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, but this time the classic GP30 is plowing lake enhanced snowfall on the north sh... (more)