On August 2, a morning LS&I mine run using a pari of U30Cs diverges from joint LS&I/CN trackage to the branch down to Tilden Mine with empty ore jennies for loading. CN trackage goes to the right,... (more)

As rain continued to fall at Palmer Jct., a CN train powered by BNSF 8204 and SD75M PTLX 235 comes off the CN line from Partridge and will head up the LS&I to Eagle Mills to deliver empty all rail... (more)

By the time the mine run crew returned from Tilden Mine with loaded ore jennies for the LS&I ore dock, sun had turned to rain at Palmer Junction where CN joins LS&I with trackage rights to Ishpemi... (more)

After the LS&I ore train passed through Palmer Jct., another LS&I mine run using CEFX power showed up. This train had all rail ore loads from Tilden Mine and took them over to CN's Partridge Yard.... (more)

An LS&I mine run from Eagle Mills, MI to Tilden Mine rolls through Palmer Junction with a trainload of empty ore jennies powered by a pair of U30Cs. This junction is where the Canadian National co... (more)

A Soo Line freight with intermodal traffic approaches the BN crossing as it heads through Savanna, IL and will cross the Mississippi River and enter Iowa. The Kansas City bound train is powered by... (more)

Norfolk Southern no. 3556 made a return appearance later on the same day it went west with a detour freight. Here it is running long hood first with an eastbound detour freight on Soo Line trackag... (more)

Norfolk Southern no. 3556 leads a detouring freight across the Soo Line bridge over the Mississippi River leaving Savanna, IL and entering Sabula, IA. The train was detouring due to flooding on th... (more)

Soo Line SD60 no. 6012 makes a move through Dayton Bluff trackage mated up with recently acquired SD40B no. 6450. The B unit was acquired from BN which experimented a bit with B units in the early... (more)

Soo Line albino SD40s nos. 623 and 622 join a Hiawatha scheme SD40-2 and other Soo Line power outside the diesel shop at SOO's St. Paul Yard. The units at this time were recently acquired from Kan... (more)

For a few minutes, Soo Line owned St. Paul. Here SOO GP30 no. 700 waits its turn to enter St. Paul Yard (Pigs Eye) while GP35 728 and two more GP30s lead a transfer job north out of the yard, and ... (more)

Milwaukee Road's Beverly station sits abandoned and forlorn in the dusty climate near the east bank of the Columbia River in central Washington. By fall 1979 the railroad had no need for the depot... (more)

The Boyceville, WI Soo Line station featured a tri-color train order signal located by the operator's bay next to the mainline. This was part of Soo Line's Twin Cities-Stevens Point, WI main, conn... (more)

The Thief River Falls Chamber of Commerce building was previously the Soo Line Railroad station, and an important operating office location for the railroad. One of SOO's more substantial stations... (more)

More orange and black abounds in the joint KCS/SOO Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO on June 28, 1986 as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor no. 5345 and GP40-2 3128 line up with SOO SD40-2 758. A KCS switcher p... (more)