Soo 4408,750 ramble east with train #912 on Valentine's day 1980. The 4408 was destroyed in a head on collision near Gilchrist in the summer of 82.

Soo 2225A,737,502C thunder westbound through Caffey with 94 cars on train 911. The crews preferred second generation hood units for leaders, but on this day 2225A was picked up at Trout Lake for a... (more)

Soo 718,4412 are spending a cold January night at Trout Lake. At the distant right the green light on the train order signal beckons an eastbound for Sault Ste. Marie into town.The Marquette crew ... (more)

A grungy set of Soo power has 910 well in hand as it heads eastbound at Garnet. Were getting into the mid 80's the Soo is changing and dirty power that wouldn't have been tolerated even 5 years be... (more)

Soo train 911 lead by 6609 and 759 is struggling to clear the main at Gilchrist after a night of lake effect snow in 1981.

The Soo Line normally used this big Russel plow that was assigned to Gladstone for the serious snows that would fall in Upper Michigan. They also had a couple Jordan spreaders that would be seen o... (more)

Soo 404,2201A are crawling westbound out of Trout Lake with 61 cars on an extra. Before trains 909-910 were added to the schedule between Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie the Soo ran an extra at least t... (more)

Soo 744,709 struggle through the cold and snow just west of Gilchrist with train 910. This was just another train on the Soo subdivision in 1984. A year later the Soo would buy the Milwaukee Road ... (more)

Soo 6610,6602 have a 116 car train 912 on the move at Garnet. The roller coaster profile of the Soo Subdivision is apparent as the train comes out of a sag and will soon be dropping down another.

Soo 407,2200C,721 have the 95 cars of train 911 moving along at a good clip passing Caffey. The 407 with masking tape on about every seam show the efforts some head end crews went to eliminate the... (more)

Soo's first GP30 number 700 heads west into a heavy snow squall with 6 cars and a caboose.

Soo Line is finishing out its last winter in Upper Michigan, but it will not go away easily as snow is pouring down on April fools day 1987. Geep 2405, leads CR 7786,7784 on train 11. Normally sec... (more)

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 704,705 pull a short #909 into the siding at Gilchrist to wait out a meet with #910. Back to back fairly clean, consecutively numbered GP30's were probably not a common sight anywhere in 1985.