Soo Line GP30 speeds down the forest lined tracks as it takes passengers east from Duluth along the north shore of Lake Superior. Soo 700 is on Lake Superior Railroad Museum's roster.

Outside of the EMD F and E unit line the GP30 is the best aesthetically styled locomotive EMD has produced, in my humble opinion. How can one argue when seeing restored Soo Line 700 kicking up a p... (more)

Soo Line GP30 #700 rolls over a trestle across a creek between Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

Soo Line 700 crosses the Sucker River before it empties into Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors. This ex-Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway bridge was also in the 1994 movie Iron Wil... (more)

Missabe fans will recognize this as being very near to where the DM&IR's Endion Yard was located until the freeway was built. In the 1980's the line was sold and is now operated by the North Shore... (more)

A North Shore Scenic Railroad private excursion heads up the coast between Duluth, MN and Two Harbors, MN pulling two former Missabe coaches across the Little Sucker river bridge on a warm summer ... (more)

Soo Line GP30 700 switches exhibits out of the museum display building in preparation for the arrival of the restored business car Missabe. On the left is a log loader built in Duluth.

The forests of northern Minnesota streak by as Soo Line GP30 number 700 rides the rails north along the north shore of Lake Superior.

Two SOO powered excursions ran from Duluth to Two Harbors this weekend. The GP30 led two coaches, as it tailed 2719 north from Duluth.

Soo Line 700 does track speed north of Duluth, Minnesota along the north shore of Lake Superior.

Earlier in 2012 the North Shore Scenic Railroad moved a number of DEEX coal sets into storage. One such move is shown here breaking through fresh snow along the north shore of Lake Superior. The r... (more)

A Soo Line northbound freight begins its descent of Byron Hill south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on a beautiful August 2, 1987. Bracketing two GP9s are a pair of GP30s.

700 sits at LSRM on a cloudless night in Duluth.

Hard to believe this was the scene in Duluth a little over a week ago. Most of this snow has since melted due to unseasonably warm temps.