It may be Golden Valley but it's also cold valley so this unit looks like an NW2 with half the radiator blocked off. A rather jaunty looking unit, with the flexicoils and marker lights. Photo by... (more)

Even back in the early 1970s, it wasn't easy to get a Baldwin and Fairbanks Morse Locomotive in the same frame. MNS DT6-6-2000 21 passes H12-44 10 working the yard as it enters Glenwood Junction ... (more)

My father visited the MN&S a few times on one his business trips to the Twin Cities. On this day in the early 1970s, he captured MNS DT6-6-2000 21 passing under Highway 55 as it enters Glenwood J... (more)

MN&S 10, an FM H-12-44, switches cars at its Minneapolis yard. The MN&S operated from Minneapolis to Northfield, MN (Rock Island/MILW connections) and Randolph, MN (Chicago Great Western connectio... (more)

Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern EMD SW1200 No. 34 rests at Soo Line’s Shoreham Yard locomotive facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in September 1984. The switcher was built in May 1965 and is... (more)

MN&S 21 sits on display at IRM.

MNS 21 is on display at Diesel Days at the Illinois RR Museum in July of 2009. Thank goodness these museums exist to preserve what would otherwise likely be lost.

MNS #31 rests at the Soo Lines Shoreham Shops in September of 1983.

The SOO chose MN&S caboose #100 to wear a short lived white paint scheme as a display car to celebrate the newly created SOO/Milwaukee system. It is shown here resting in shops yard in North Fond ... (more)

MN&S 32 leads a short train west across the Mississippi River on a warm and humid summer day in 1984. This was a couple of years after Soo Line bought the shortline but it continued to operate muc... (more)

A transfer engine at the MN&S shop. Taken with Kodachrome II film and a Miranda G camera.

A Soo Line transfer freight enters Milwaukee Road’s Pigs Eye Yard in St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 11, 1985. Powered by two former Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern SW1200s and two Soo Line ... (more)

Not long after the Soo bought the MN&S the pair of MN&S SD39's started to roam system wide. Equipped with Hancock air whistles and with an amber flasher above the front walkway the units presented... (more)

After the Soo was able to purchase the MN&S, EMD SW series units which had been absent from Upper Michigan for number of years made a comeback. Very few original Soo SW's were MU equipped and as t... (more)