Soo Line 6406 and 6408, acquired second hand, started life in January 1970 as Illinois Central SD40A locomotives. They were built on SDP45 length underframes which permitted the largest possible f... (more)

A CP train heads east disguised as a Soo Line train on the former Milwaukee Road mainline at the border of Duplainville and Brookfield, WI on a beautiful, but icy winter day.

The Soo Line local from L’Anse, Michigan passes the Marquette yard office. Although we were much more interested in the LS&I and C&NW Alcos in the area, this may be a much less photographed trai... (more)

The Soo Line local from L’Anse, Michigan has arrived at Marquette on a beautiful August morning. The train, based at Marquette, made the round trip over the former DSS&A three times a week. Anot... (more)

A pair of Soo Line GP38-2’s stand by the former DSS&A roundhouse in Marquette, Michigan. The red Scotchlite lettering on the lead unit was an experiment applied to the first ten SOO GP38-2’s (... (more)

A Soo Line freight led by SD40-2 no. 774 and an SD60 cruise east along the shore of Lake Pewaukee with a freight headed from Portage, WI into Milwaukee. At this point in 1990 Soo Line still had do... (more)

Former Milwaukee Road GP40, now SOO 2066, leads a couple leasers on an eastbound freight at Lewiston, WI. The train is getting out of the way for a westbound empty coal train before continuing on ... (more)

A Soo Line local with a single SD40-2 for power rolls northward out of Gladstone, Michigan.

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Soo Line EMD GP9 No. 555 switches at Shop Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in September 1984.

SOO 779 leads a freight west into the setting sun at Nashota, WI on Milwaukee Road's former mainline.

Soo Line EMD FP7 No. 502-A sits on a whisker track at the railroad’s roundhouse at Shoreham in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in September 1984. At this time Soo Line kept four F units handy for winter... (more)

A couple kids take advantage of nice fall weather to test their fishing skills at Pewaukee, WI, not paying much attention to a passing Soo Line train heading eastbound toward Milwaukee on the form... (more)

Soo Line 6606 looks right at home on parent CP's mainline heading an intermodal train west at Spuzzum, BC. This was prior to joint operation of trackage in the Fraser Canyon which resulted in CP b... (more)

A Soo Line GP38-2 shoves a string of intermodal cars back as they switch out the Schiller Park intermodal facility on a sunny morning on the west side of Chicago.

SOO 4412 leads train IM1 through tower B12 in Franklin Park IL.