Tied onto a hiwide load, a brand new Soo Line Geep is awaiting pickup from its owner at the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.
Soo Line 4445 pulls out of Bensenville Yard for headroom on a nice morning.
A Soo Line GP38-2 shoves its train back into the yard.
A matching pair of Soo Line GP38-2's await their next assignment at Mannheim Road.
The Max job rolling across the prairie with traffic for the DMVW and New Town.
Pleanty of business to keep three jobs going on this round-the-clock branchline. Rich Farmland and the Bakken oil field equal a success story for the Canadian Pacifics' New Town Sub.
A classic set of SOO power is reflected as they work the Camden Job.
It's off to work for a pair of GPs on a warm spring morning in La Crosse.
The high water of the Mississippi River is evident as 581 crosses on its journey to St. Paul, MN. The river is expected to rise another 3' before cresting.
Threatening skies move east as switch power rests for the evening.
SOO 4445 switches Superior's Rice Point Yard as the sun sets.
One of the Soo's "F unit killers" leads a train of MN&S cars past the General Mills elevator near downtown Duluth, Minnesota.
The SOO on this GP38-2 is fading, but the memory of the "new" Soo will live on for all of us who shot this great railroad through the years.
This train left just as fast as it came.
