Most BAR units that I seen in my 1981 visit to Maine looked well maintained but this GP38 was in some pretty tired paint as it rested in the Northern Maine Junction shop area. A number of F3's and... (more)

In a shot from my collection that I traded for years ago CNW 4075C rests at Proviso. No photographer is listed on the slide.

DMIR units normally could be found working on the WC almost year round after the WC started to snare a substantial amount of all rail ore runs from Duluth to connections in Chicago. These were mos... (more)

Back to back GP7's in the form of BAR 62 and 69 arrive with 55 cars at Northern Maine Junction. This train was the daily Searsport job and seemed to handle a large amount of tank car traffic.

On a hazy September morning CNW 5050,5085,5073 along with UP 3953 and 3924 are eastbound at a blistering pace with mainly APL doublestacks.

A slide I traded for years ago. BN 4244 leads three WP GE's on a BN runthrough in April of 1971. The photographers name is illegible.

CNW 815,814,831,4117,4502 and 4562 are eastbound with 29 cars near sunset west of Belle Fourche. The CNW GP30's had been in and out of storage for a long time and I think at the time of this photo... (more)

By 1982 the Soo F-unit fleet was gone except for a handful of snowplow service units. The Milwaukee Road purchase and its corresponding motive power chaos was in the future and things seemed to be... (more)

AC FP9's 1751 and 1750 are heading up train 1 north of Heyden. This train was the Hearst job that spent most of the day on its long trip north. The track seen here carefully following a shelf alon... (more)

I was fortunate enough to have a couple parents who sometimes questioned the cost factor of my railfan adventures but generally were good sports about the whole thing. When I was off to work eithe... (more)

Soo never bought a new SD45 although the EMD demo units worked on the Soo for a couple weeks when EMD was barnstorming them across country when they first came out. Oddly enough the Soo purchased ... (more)

The CN made short work of retiring most of the WC's classic 4 axle power and assigned a number of IC GP40's to replace them. 3108 was one of the early newcomers to WC lines and is backing train 41... (more)

A shortage of pellets at Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie ONT prompted the LS&I/Soo Line to run about 15 all rail pellet moves in the spring of 1979. These jobs operated with LS&I power and Soo ho... (more)

Before trains 909/910 were extended from Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie the Soo ran a local six days a week to handle the business that trains 911/912 didn't stop for. Most of the time it was a single... (more)

On a frigid March morning train 911 is Chicago bound at Gilchrist with 76 cars powered by 2203A,747 and 213A. Thirteen days to the first day of "spring" and nothing could have seemed farther away ... (more)