Soo Line train 12, powered by Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 158 and former Kansas City Southern EMD SD40 No. 626, is about to roll over Brookfield Road grade crossing in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on ... (more)

Soo Line train 12 uses the connection track at Duplainville, Wisconsin, as it heads toward Milwaukee on August 1, 1987. Powering the train is a pair of Soo EMD GP9s, a GP35 and a former Milwaukee ... (more)

A late evening sun lights train 12 as it prepares to depart Trout Lake with 408, 6241 and leased CR 7784. The head Brakie is making his way forward on 6241 after going back to reset a ground relay... (more)

Soo/Lake States train 12 rolls west as long shadows creep over the yard at Trout Lake. GP35 724 leads 4232 and a fair sized train west. By this date it was obvious to even the most optimistic that... (more)

In the last summer of Soo Line operations in Upper Michigan a Milwaukee SD leads a former Milwaukee SW now in fresh Soo Line Red/Off White/Black west on train 12 with 47 cars at Caffey.

In this evening shot Soo 4227 and Milwaukee 192 have arrived at Trout Lake on train 12 out of Sault Ste. Marie. The units have cut off their train east of the Highway M-123 crossing and threaded ... (more)

Milwaukee Road 169 heads Soo 2408 and the 32 cars of train 12 west. The Lake States experiment was winding down and due to problems with the older units assigned to these lines the Soo had brought... (more)

Soo 2405,731,957 raise a little dust as they head train 12 west with 21 cars at Dafter. The Soo kept doing track maintenance until the end in Upper Michigan and the area north of Highway 28 had re... (more)

Soo 408,6241,CR 7784 head a short train 12 west at Trout Lake in the late evening. SD39 6241 was the only road unit that I knew of to have the Lake States lettering on the nose instead of Soo Line... (more)

Soo 704,404,401 trundle through the yard limits at Trout Lake with 57 cars, including many CP 40' newsprint boxcars. I'm not sure how much longer these 40 foot boxes lasted but they were soon gone... (more)

Soo 717 and 400 work west with a fairly heavy train 12. The 717 was quite a smoker and if under a heavy load could be counted upon to put out quite a cloud for an EMD. Train 12 could normally be c... (more)

Milw. 158, Soo 2408 head train 12 west into a late evening sun near Kinross. The train was 50 cars long on this mid July evening, rather large for this era. Train 12 normally had a call time of 4-... (more)

The Soo's failed Lake States experiment is nearly over and in less than two months this will be Wisconsin Central trackage. The one thing Lake States did accomplish was allowing railfans the oppor... (more)

A couple of ex Milwaukee Road veterans not normally found in Upper Michigan lead train 12 west with 24 cars. Quite a few Milwaukee SD40-2's worked the area with a few GP40's mixed in. The Milw. GP... (more)

Deep in the Soo era in Upper Michigan a pair of geeps, 414,401 power a short 15 car train 12 past the depot in Rudyard. The agent had been moved out long before and the building was surviving as a... (more)