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)

WC 6651 and 588 lead 44 loads of Tilden ore bound for the furnaces of Algoma Steel. This power wouldn't have much of a future under CN ownership and both units were retired not long after the CN t... (more)

By 1982 the Soo F-unit fleet was gone except for a handful of snowplow service units. The Milwaukee Road purchase and its corresponding motive power chaos was in the future and things seemed to be... (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)

An A-B-A set of Soo F's roll train 911 west at Garnet with 76 cars. FP7 2501A leads 503C and 212A on this cold morning. Sets like this were so common between Gladstone and Sault Ste. Marie in the ... (more)

When the WC first started operations only two trains a day made the Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie trip and they were often fairly short. Service started with trains 11 and 12 in a hold over from the ... (more)

WC handled quite a few CP detours over the years through Upper Michigan but CN ones were much more uncommon and could have been counted on the fingers of one hand. This west coast-Montreal train w... (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.

Late running train 911, after being stuck with local work at Trout Lake and heading for a meet with a tardy eastbound extra at Gilchrist makes short work of the snow and cold as it rips through Ga... (more)

After the WC bought the GBW/FRV the pair of SD24's from FRV found a home in Upper Michigan. Normally they prowled the ex DSS&A lines where they seemed well suited to muscling trains of pulpwood/fo... (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 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)

Right after sunrise WC 7638, CN 9455, WC 3009 head east with 88 cars bound for Sault Ste. Marie. The chances of WC SD45's were growing less by the day and catching probably the best looking one st... (more)

A bunch of Soo Line roster rarity's are on the point off this train 911 back in 1979. The 722 was one of ten GP35's on the Soo, but was the only one riding AAR type B trucks off a retired Alco FA.... (more)

A grungy set of Soo power has 910 well in hand as it heads eastbound at Garnet. Were getting into the mid 80's the Soo is changing and dirty power that wouldn't have been tolerated even 5 years be... (more)