A pair of Soo Line GP9s sit around the turntable at Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on April 27, 1985. SOO GP9 No. 403 was a freight-hauling locomotive built in 1954, while sister No. ... (more)
1984 was getting pretty late in the game to catch a pair of Soo geeps on any of the four daily Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie trains. I felt lucky to have caught this pair of ex passenger geeps leadin... (more)
A young man enjoys some fishing while 2556 works the east end of Stevens Point yard on a warm June morning. This unit was destroyed a few months late at Roseport, MN when a cut of cars rolled down... (more)
Soo 2556 at Shoreham, it didn't take long to realize this geep had ran her last mile. Damaged along with 409 in a collision with a runaway cut of cars at Roseport, MN.
The Soo used their Geeps in all kinds of applications well into the 80's. Switching, work trains, branch line jobs, and mainline freights. Stevens Point always seemed to have a few scattered aroun... (more)