SOO 4447 switches Jones Island in Milwaukee, WI in April of 1997. In the foreground is the cement boat J.A.W. Iglehart. Built in 1936 as the ocean going tanker Pan-Amoco, it was rebuilt in 1965 as... (more)

SOO 706 and F unit 2229-B head to the roundhouse at Chippewa Falls' Irvine Yard on a cold January morning in 1971. The wood roundhouse was still in use and the hand throw switch stands still featu... (more)

Switching Moves at Randolph. With just a reefer and caboose in tow, the big Mikado, SOO 1003 moves east toward a switch that will give her access to a long string of sand hoppers on the adj... (more)

SOO caboose #15 brings up the rear of a freight passing Tower MJ in Superior, WI in May of 1986.

SOO 747 leads a freight on Conrail's Southern Tier near Browns Crossing in June of 1993. The semaphore was an added bonus.

A Roger Puta Photograph

Sunset at Fox Lake. Just a minute or two of daylight remains as a local SOO Line Freight runs eastbound across the causeway just south of Fox Lake, Wisconsin. The power this evening is the... (more)

Entering Burnett. Just a few miles north of Horicon, Wisconsin, lies the tiny hamlet of Burnett, which is home to a few hundred people and the Peachy Brothers Grain Elevator complex that cl... (more)

CP/D&H Train 556 waits for a recrew at CSX’ East Side Yard in Philadelphia. There was always hope of getting an MLW leading on this train, but this version had two M636’s trailing. The next da... (more)

Crossing the Rubicon. Not the river, but a little town in Central Wisconsin. With morning clouds breaking, SOO 1003 races eastbound through little Rubicon, WI with a local freight, on her ... (more)

Waiting on the brake test. SOO 1003's Engineer looks back for a visual confirmation of a successful brake test from his Trainman as the crew assembles a freight in the yard just west of dow... (more)

Even though this unit spent 30 years under SOO and CP ownership, they never once thought to repaint it. Today, it is seen resting inside Mid-America Car in Kansas City.

Locomotive: SOO 1544... (more)

Soo Line

A loaded potash train heads south out of Galesburg. The train has run thru Soo Line power. The train is seen here on the main that runs around the yard. This train probably came to the BN at St. P... (more)

The Soo Line had only a handful of wide-cab SD60M's and I think this is the only time I caught 2 of them back to back. They are departing the Milwaukee Amtrak depot/post office in December of 1993... (more)