Everyone that ended up being interested in trains probably has one particular unit that "did it" for them...well this model was mine. My earliest childhood memory of trains revolves around the big... (more)

A young man enjoys some fishing while 2556 works the east end of Stevens Point yard on a warm June morning. This unit was destroyed a few months late at Roseport, MN when a cut of cars rolled down... (more)

CNW 7003,8029 and UP 2402 roll coal loads east past Daytons Bluff in St. Paul.

Soo 395 at the Marquette Roundhouse. The 395 was built as Baldwin demonstrator 1600 in 1949 and went to the DSS&A in 1952. It was one of a few ex DSS&A Baldwins to get Soo paint. This unit was ret... (more)

CP 8791 in fresh paint leads a F7B and another RS-18 on train 904 at St. Luc. Slide is from my collection with no photographer listed. I either traded for or bought this slide years ago.

Soo 2556 at Shoreham, it didn't take long to realize this geep had ran her last mile. Damaged along with 409 in a collision with a runaway cut of cars at Roseport, MN.

Soo 800 at Stevens Point. The Soo had parked most if not all of the ten U-boats as the economy underwent a slow period in 1975. The units had become kind of beat up looking since delivery in 1968 ... (more)

Only three of the 700 series ex Soo GP-30's ever received a full WC paint job. The Alco type B trucks and some issues with crispy electrical cabinets doomed them to be some of the first power WC d... (more)

This clean SW1200 was working Gladstone Yard in the Fall of 1985. Most Soo SW's came without MU hook-ups so they ended up being hauled from yard to yard behind the road power on freights. No doubt... (more)

The two LS&I U25C's arrived in this rather striking scheme(at least compared to the solid chocolate scheme)and for the most part they worked as a team early on in there careers. Here is 2500 leadi... (more)

WC 7511 and 2061 pass through a Chilly Trout Lake on an sunny early January afternoon with the Tilden empties.

By 2008 most of the remaining U-boats still roaming the LS&I had began to look pretty tired. This shot of 3008 leading a similarly faded sister with 60 loads on the 7 yard at Empire Junction typif... (more)

CNW commuter job with 5025A at Waukegan, photo was either bought or traded for years ago and has been in my collection. No photographer listed on slide.

When the WC bought Ex VIA FP9's for passenger service on the former ACR four F9B units were also puchased. From my understanding the B's were for spare parts. Two of the B's were stripped of parts... (more)

AC 1753,WC 6590, WC 6619 drop downgrade at East Kinross with the combined Ladysmith/Tilden ore loads. The gondolas up front are out of Ladysmith and the Ex ACR ore cars on the rear are loaded with... (more)