Consecutively numbered SD's roll 52 cars of train 910 east on a warm November morning. By this time the Soo had become a mainly SD40, SD40-2, GP38-2 railroad. Early Geeps and GP30's along with a s... (more)

A nearly new SD40-2 works the Mead Paper landing at Trout Lake with GP9 412. The Soo and later WC hauled a lot of pulp out of Trout Lake over the years to the Mead mill located in North Escanaba. ... (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)

Train 910 powered with 4403,711 and 2412 makes its way east out of a sag near Garnet. The short siding at Garnet with 60lbs rail wasn't used except for an occasional wood chip or pulp load. It onl... (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)

I spent a lot of time on trains back in the 70's and 80's, Soo crews in Upper Michigan were a friendly group and a long way from the headquarters in the Twin Cities, so they put up with me pester... (more)

Soo 6613 leads geeps 408,553 east on train 910 with 39 cars. Engineer Larry St. Martin has just notched out the power as the train climbs out of a sag and the 6613 kicks out a little smoke.

By the early to mid 80's the Soo's GP30 fleet was getting a little ragged. The Alco type B trucks that had come from the FA fleet were reportedly a pain to work on and as the economy went through ... (more)

Soo 4413, Milw. 167 on train 910 work the small yard at Trout Lake and are sitting on the diamond with the ex DSS&A St. Ignace-Marquette line. The diamond is now gone along with the train order si... (more)

Spotless Milwaukee SD40-2's 197,159 are on the point of Soo train 910 as they switch a few pulpwood gons at Trout Lake, The Soo had just bought the Milwaukee Road a couple of months before this ph... (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)

Just another snowy grade crossing shot with Soo 785,708 leading train 910 east through Garnet. Sometimes the memories that go with these stick with you. By the time I shot this photo I'd been rail... (more)

In a scene that shouts Classic Soo Line, 4425 and 6606 lead train 910 around a sweeping curve just east of Gould City. a forty foot box trails the power along with gondolas to be spotted for pulp ... (more)

Train 910 has just handed a unit to an underpowered train 911 at Manistque and is now heading east toward a meet with train 909 at Gilchrist. In the early 80's Soo operated four trains a day over ... (more)

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)