WC SDL's 590,586 get #43 moving out of Trout Lake. A engineer off a waiting eastbound gives 43 a roll by.
Soo 735,747 getting westbound #909 underway on a cold March afternoon. Soo's original GP40's were small in number(four) and consequently not spotted often in the Upper Peninsula.
Soo's oldest SD40 leads #912 out of a setting sun after a long day fighting snow all across northern Wis. and Mi. Numbers 737,6614 have things well in hand as they blast through a plow bank a coup... (more)
Soo 2202A,738 blast through the snow leading #912 east on a icy Feb. morning. By this time Soo F's were not popular lead units, so this was a lucky event in my world, if not that of the engine cre... (more)
Soo 6615,755 have just banged over the (ex DSS&A) diamond in Trout Lake. In about a half a mile it will be run 8 until maximum track speed of 40mph is reached. East of Gladstone trains 909/910 did... (more)
Soo 500A,2400,551 ease to a stop with the 136 cars of today's #912 just west of Trout Lake. Catching three 1st generation units together on this train was rare even at this date. A normal consist ... (more)
Soo 2405,706 work the Mead landing on a early "spring" day.
WC 587, 586 bend around the wye at Trout Lake, after arriving from Marquette with train #42. The SDL's were usual power on the Marquette line and for tranfer power in Sault Ste. Marie for almost t... (more)
Soo 408,2405,2401 struggle out of Trout Lake with a heavy 65 car #12. The Lake States era brought a return of geeps and early second generation hoods to Upper Michigan.
Soo 4448, 2408 amble west with a extra bound for Marquette. First out on the train are the white Soo bulkhead gons(commonly referred to as Mead gons) headed to the Mead Paper wood yards in Newber... (more)
Soo 788, 2501C near Trout Lake with 110 cars on #912.
Soo 802, 2204C roll #912 into Trout Lake with 130 cars on beautiful fall morning. Soo U30C's were not real common on the East end of the system as they were quite unreliable. If a unit were to fai... (more)
Soo 765, 755, 4436 have train #911 with 55 cars in tow on a snowy Dec. afternoon.
Soo 768 and 703 on #910 head east with 45 cars.
Classic F7 passes Trout Lake's most outstanding building, the SOO depot.
