Soo 2027 leads a still decent looking Milwaukee 2041 west near Lake City. After all the black paint treatment most of the Ex Milwaukee units took on a fairly unattractive appearance and they ran a... (more)

WC train 135 drops downgrade at the west end of Soo yard lead by 2554 and AC 1750, 1754. A snowbank gave me the elevation for the photo which says a whole lot about Sault Ste. Marie in the winter.... (more)

Soo 394 rests in the ore yard at Marquette. Pairs of the big Baldwin AS-616's were normally assigned to work the ore yard and make the dock shoves at the time. Time was running out on 394 and it w... (more)

Milwaukee Road 138 arrived in Sault Ste. Marie with a personality conflict...someone had done a neat job of painting a big Soo on the nose. Although the unit was property of the Soo Line at the ti... (more)

For a road that had such an allegiance to EMD the Soo had its share of roster curiosities especially early in the diesel era. A handful of FM's generally worked the Twin Cities and lasted long eno... (more)

In a photo from my collection by Karl Henkels Soo 393 sits by the Marquette Roundhouse. Only a few of the Ex DSS&A Baldwins received the received the Red/Off White and Black Soo scheme. Photo has ... (more)

A clean CP SD40-2 at North Portal. This slide is from my collection with no photographer listed. It has been in my collection for years and was probably traded for in the 80's.

The Soo seemed to have a lot of work going on at Shoreham for EMD at the time of this photo. This Ex CR/PC GP38-2 was in for work at the time and had a big paper in the engineers window stating it... (more)

A couple of big SD's in off a road job keep a locally assigned GP38-2 company at the Soo's 21st St roundhouse in the fall of 1981.

Soo 2554 at Stevens Point in this unmarked slide from my collection(possibly Joe Stauber). The Soo passenger geeps in the 550 and 2550 series came with Mars lights and roof mounted air tanks which... (more)

Soo GP-9 2554 was damaged in a derailment at Denham, MN on Sept. 23, 1978 and was sent to Diesel Electric Services a re-builder in the Twin Cities and came back as something christened a GP-22. Pa... (more)

Southbound train 6 is pulling into the yard at Hawk Junction with a fairly long train lead by 6633 and 2252. The GP30 was uncommon in WC Canadian service as its lack of operable dynamic brakes lim... (more)

CP train 407 heads around the curve at Benny powered by 5701, 5411, 5503. 407 normally had a cut of mixed manifest followed with a large cut of COFC/TOFC and today's train was no exception with a ... (more)

An A-B-A set of Soo F's roll train 911 west at Garnet with 76 cars. FP7 2501A leads 503C and 212A on this cold morning. Sets like this were so common between Gladstone and Sault Ste. Marie in the ... (more)

The FRV spin-off of CNW lines in the Fox Valley of Wisconsin didn't have many C-C units and here are three of them preparing to make a set-out on train GBPRA at North Fond du Lac. SD24 2401 leads ... (more)