Soo 6309, Milw 183 pass the boarded up Milwaukee depot at LaCrescent with the 110 cars on train 222. The 6309 was one of a very few former Milwaukee Road SD40-2's to get the full Soo Line paint sc... (more)

DMIR 307,201 swing off the main into the pellet plant at North Fairlane.

Flying white CP 8749 leads a short 7 car extra near Mattawa.

In an odd assignment for a "fast forty" and a DD40X the 8053 and 6936 work a 75 car westbound grain job at North Platte at 3:55PM.

UP 6904, RI 349,347,351,279 head east out of North Platte with 109 cars at 1:40PM. The Rock was on it's last legs at the time but still rated a run through job with UP out of Council Bluffs. The b... (more)

HC used CP power from time to time over the years to fill in if one of there units was ailing. CP 1839 is lashed up with HC 201 at Sault Ste. Marie. After finishing up the days yard chores they re... (more)

CNW 6721,6712,6724 have the Groveland Empties in tow as they work RR east but compass west near Bark River. CNW crews called this job the Antoine turn. It normally had a 11AM call time at Escanaba... (more)

CNW 4174 along with an SD40-2 B-unit and leased LS&I 3008 are assigned to the dumper job at Escanaba. The 4174 is looking good in a fresh coat of CNW green and yellow but doesn't have much of a fu... (more)

A "bandit" SD leads plain Soo 780 and train 200 as they approach the BN diamond at Grand Crossing. Why the Soo couldn't have choose to place a small Soo on the unit somewhere instead going to the ... (more)

Bright and early on a fall morning finds Soo 1204,2405 tied up at Glenwood awaiting a day of switching the yard.

A couple U-boats lead a GP35 on westbound 83 at Cedar Lake in 1966. Photo is part of my collection but is not shot by me. No name on slide, scanned from a Ektachrome transparency.

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)

The Grand Crossing interlocking seemed to be prone to dense fog in the mornings especially in the fall. It had been one of those days on the morning of Sept. 22, 1979 and Milwaukee 2030,2011 were ... (more)

On a scorching hot, humid July 6, 2404,2303,2402 work out of the rock cut near Eagle Mills Junction with 60 empties on the 3PM Tilden job.

CP 4725,4559,4721,5012,CN 3702,3698 head off the CP's Montreal-Toronto line onto the line that goes west through the Ottawa Valley and then on to North Bay and Sudbury. This line is now pending ab... (more)