Soo Line "Bandit" 2064 leads two white Soo units across the IHB/CN diamonds in Blue Island, IL
A SOO bandit works the east end of Bensonville Yard.
Probably my favorite Ex-MILW unit, the "reverse" Milwaukee Road on the car body, the original number showing on the dynamic brake blister, and the class lights in the nose still.
CP 287 puts on a good show with one kick A$$ lash-up. I chased this train from Bangor (where i work) to Lake City, almost 100 miles even though I had to work the next morning at 5 AM. More to com... (more)
CP 287 heads north along the Mississippi River with an array of classic power. Thanks to Jim and Andrew Matuska for the heads-up on this one!
Soo bandits in the CP Franklin Park Yard idle early in the a.m., awaiting crews with assignments
SOO bandit GP40s 2064 and 2057 lead a northbound manifest over the Wisconsin River.
A crew on a passing train was overheard to say, "You look like the old days!" as a pair of SOO bandits depart this old Milwaukee Road crew base westbound.
Former Milwaukee Road units in Soo "bandit" scheme still patrol the Canadian Pacific in Wisconsin.
