Soo never bought a new SD45 although the EMD demo units worked on the Soo for a couple weeks when EMD was barnstorming them across country when they first came out. Oddly enough the Soo purchased ... (more)
The CN made short work of retiring most of the WC's classic 4 axle power and assigned a number of IC GP40's to replace them. 3108 was one of the early newcomers to WC lines and is backing train 41... (more)
A shortage of pellets at Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie ONT prompted the LS&I/Soo Line to run about 15 all rail pellet moves in the spring of 1979. These jobs operated with LS&I power and Soo ho... (more)
Before trains 909/910 were extended from Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie the Soo ran a local six days a week to handle the business that trains 911/912 didn't stop for. Most of the time it was a single... (more)
On a frigid March morning train 911 is Chicago bound at Gilchrist with 76 cars powered by 2203A,747 and 213A. Thirteen days to the first day of "spring" and nothing could have seemed farther away ... (more)