Soo 768,6613,4411 roll out of a setting sun at the end of a short frigid winter day. The coil steel cars stored in the siding at Caffey were a sign of the times in the early 1980's as we rode out ... (more)

Soo 761,739 with a cut of paper loads just behind the power head a short 40 car train 911 west. There is not a lot of daylight in Upper Michigan near the first day of winter and the thermometer wa... (more)

The winter of 1976-77 was one of the worst ones on record in Upper Michigan with lots of snow and wind. This shot has Soo train 912 working its way east with 503A leading Soo's lone F3B, 2200C and... (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)

Soo GP7 377 is the power for Russel plow X-183 as it works it's way west widening the trail through deep snow that it had made the previous evening. The plow extra had just spent the last three ho... (more)

Soo 765,755,4436 have train 911 and 55 cars rolling through fresh snow on the curves near Garnet. The Soo had already re-routed most COFC traffic off this line and it now is surviving on mainly fo... (more)

In a sure sign that both the Soo Line and Upper Michigan were in for a very long winter, 2229B and 2500A roll 19 cars west toward Marquette on a chilly, snowy mid-October afternoon.

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)

Soo #911 has been battling blizzard conditions since leaving Sault Ste. Marie over 6 hours ago. Originally powered by only 768 and 409 with 131 cars the train more or less ran at 10MPH all the way... (more)

Soo 732 has been battling a few drifts as it moves an Extra West near Caffey. The Soo's GP40 "fleet" of four units tended to wander all over the system. There lack of numbers made it feel like a r... (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)

Soo 2229A,713,2225A head a tardy train 911 with 74 cars westbound at 2:45PM. A couple days past the first day of spring on the calendar, but you would never guess it by the cold winds and powder s... (more)

On a bitter winter afternoon Soo 4434,715 have a westbound local working the yard at Trout Lake. The train is ready to go and is now backing around the SW Wye and will soon be clanking across the ... (more)

One of only four late model F3's left on the Soo's roster at the time, heads an extremely late train 911 a couple miles west of Trout Lake. It's been over 30 years but I seem to remember that the ... (more)

By the time I started shooting slides in the fall 1976 the chances for Soo Line F-unit sets were greatly diminished. While there were still 44 F's at the time, they were more often than not just ... (more)