After overextending themselves acquiring Milwaukee Road, Soo Line established a wholly-owned division called Lake States Transportation Division on 10 February 1986, to operate its mostly former S... (more)

Busy times at Franklin Park
Just east of Soo Line’s sprawling, former Milwaukee Road Bensenville Yard, an eastbound Soo Line freight meets a westbound Grand Trunk Western train at Fra... (more)

A SOO GP38-2 leads a yard job heading out to grab some cars to take back to Knoche Yard in the late evening.

Several Soo Line and Milwaukee Road units rest outside the illuminated enginehouse at the locomotive facility at Bensenville Yard in Bensenville, Illinois, on the night of December 5, 1987.

Four of a kind
An eastbound Soo Line intermodal train zips through Duplainville, Wisconsin, led by a locomotive with a lot of fours—Soo Line EMD GP38-2 No. 4444—on April 15, 1997. I... (more)

Soo Line train 214, powered by lone EMD SD60M No. 6061, waits for a signal at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 27, 1992. Passing by on the main line is Amtrak train 338 to Chicago, substituted wi... (more)

Soo Line EMD GP30 No. 716 leads Soo train 17 westbound at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 7, 1987. The view is along Mount Vernon Avenue not far west of Milwaukee’s Amtrak Station... (more)

The regular Two Harbors train is passing #2500 in the Marbles siding ahead of an incredible weekend organized by North Shore Scenic Railroad, Lake Superior Railroad Museum & Steve Glischinski. Th... (more)

A Soo Line freight bursts through some snow at a highway grade crossing at Hartland, Wisconsin, on its journey west on the former Milwaukee Road main line on a snowy January 21, 1993.

Early Wisconsin Central locomotive consists were kaleidoscopic, as seen on train 42 switching cars at Vernon, south of Waukesha, Wisconsin, on October 31, 1987. Soo Line GP9 No. 2410 leads former ... (more)

SOO 700 leads a pumpkin train west through Duluth.

A trio of brand-new Soo Line EMD SD60 locomotives quickly roll west with train 203 at Lewiston, between Portage and Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of September 27, 1987.

Powered by a nice pair of EMD GP30s—Nos. 716 and 703—Soo Line train 11 rumbles through Lomira, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987.

Beneath the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, skyline, Soo Line train 199 curves toward the North 25th Street overpass on the afternoon of September 12, 1987. The train is led by two former Milwaukee Road EMD... (more)

Not a bad neighborhood—but it’s sure noisy at times
Taking up residence behind the background of a Union Switch and Signal Company searchlight signal on the Soo Line’s westbound m... (more)