The beautiful ex-Soo Line depot in Ashland, WI suffered a huge fire in April of 2000. Fortunately, unlike many other fires like this, the depot has been restored to like new condition.

Riding High. Lake Superior Railroad Museum's Mack industrial switcher positions a shop truck under Soo 700 during a wheel/motor swap on 700's original truck.

Taking advantage of a heavy-lift crane used the day prior to unload Lincoln's funeral car, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum used the same crane plus another to change out a wheel/motor assembly f... (more)

Train 909 tackles the hill near MP447 west of Trout Lake in winter 1985. SD40 744 leads GP30 703 and a GP38-2 west towards Gladstone. With the F's and U-boats long gone off the SOO roster this qua... (more)

Soo Line FP7 #2500-A was brought down from Duluth to celebrate Union Depot Train Days. This was the locomotive's first time visiting the depot since the 1960's, when it served in passenger service... (more)

New Soo Line SD60's rest in Bensenville Yard in Nov. of 1989.

In a scene from the past, "Dresser OPR" Don Knudtson hoops up orders to engineer Max Medlin on one of many photo runbys put on by S&B Productions on a sunny day in May. Don is no strange... (more)

It's been several years since the merger but MILW 165 is still plying home rails as it take a freight up Lake Hill in April of 1987. Several Conrail units are helping lift the tonnage.

Soo Line 2500 is a restored FP7A diesel locomotive originally owned by the Soo Line Railroad. It was built in 1949 as an EMD demonstrator locomotive. In August 1986, Soo 2500 was donated to the La... (more)

The classic cab of Soo Line FP7 #2500-A provides a sharp contrast from today's modern locomotives.

Soo Line 2500 rolls out across the Cedar Bend Drawbridge that spans the St. Croix River and the Minnesota/Wisconsin state line. The FP7 was visiting the Twin Cities for Train Days at St. Paul Unio... (more)

Soo Line 2500 was no stranger to this line, which was once the Soo main between Minneapolis and Duluth. Today, owned by CN, it ends near Dresser, Wisconsin, and hosts CP rock trains and tourist t... (more)

Max Medlin grabs orders as Soo 2500 rolls past the restored Soo Line depot at Dresser, Wisconsin. An S&B Productions photo charter

Can you say Upper Midwest? Soo Line 2500 and Milwaukee Road 261 visited St. Paul Union Depot during the last week of April 2016 for Train Days. The 2500 normally resides at the Lake Superior Rai... (more)

SOO FP7A 2500A leads BN SDP40 325 North on a special train from SPUD to Osceola for a couple days there before returning home to Duluth, MN.