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 GP... (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)

MN&S 40 and Soo 4448 team up on train 910 as it pulls around the wye at Trout Lake to clear the Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie line so a waiting train 909 can head west. Soo used to have many meets at... (more)

Flexicoil trucks but small tank was a rarely ordered combination.

MN&S 41 heads 783 and a 38 car train 910 at Trout Lake. The MN&S merger brought a little color and a few new models to the Soo in the early 80's. Soon to follow would be the Milwaukee Road merger,... (more)

MN&S 30 waits for the PM switch crew to come on duty by the sand house at Soo Yard. The Soo Line had used GP9's at Soo Yard for years as their own SW fleet was mainly not equipped with MU connecti... (more)