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)

Train 909's power has cut off and is slowly backing into the yard at Trout Lake to make a pick up. Perfect time to catch the trailing Milwaukee SD in bright April sun on fresh snow. Power consists... (more)

By 1982 the Soo F-unit fleet was gone except for a handful of snowplow service units. The Milwaukee Road purchase and its corresponding motive power chaos was in the future and things seemed to be... (more)

Soo 747, MNS 41 and Soo 550 wander through some April snow at Gilchrist on a short train 909. Ahead lay meets with trains 910 at Swift and 912 at Isabella plus pick-ups at Gulliver, Manistique and... (more)

Soo 755 and 4411 on train 909 pass through Gilchrist with 75 cars. December is normally a very cloudy month in Upper Michigan and when you add in the fact that it gets down to less than nine hours... (more)

There is not much daylight in Michigan's Upper Peninsula from mid November to mid January, The sun settles low to the south and shadows are really long, if you can find a sunny day. Things were ju... (more)

Soo 4402,555 work out of the west end of the Gilchrist siding and over County Road H40. After getting back on the main the rear end crew will realign the switch for the main and this job will be o... (more)

A couple of worn Soo GP30's head the 41 cars of train 909 west at Gilchrist. 701 and 719 do the honors on this early March afternoon, the 701 never made it to the WC and was retired as a Soo unit,... (more)

Soo 762,2405 are arriving at Gladstone yard with 34 cars after the run from Sault Ste. Marie. A motorcar is to the right and the engine facility is to the left as 762 will pull down to the west en... (more)

MN&S 40 leads Soo 741 and train 909 west at Gilchrist.

A pair of Soo GP38-2's, 4413,4449 were just departing Trout Lake on #909 when a crewman from waiting #910 noticed a problem with with the ancient 40 foot flat just behind the units. The car was se... (more)

Soo 735,747 getting westbound #909 underway on a cold March afternoon. Soo's original GP40's were small in number(four) and consequently not spotted often in the Upper Peninsula.

Soo 704,705 pull a short #909 into the siding at Gilchrist to wait out a meet with #910. Back to back fairly clean, consecutively numbered GP30's were probably not a common sight anywhere in 1985.

Soo 6615,755 have just banged over the (ex DSS&A) diamond in Trout Lake. In about a half a mile it will be run 8 until maximum track speed of 40mph is reached. East of Gladstone trains 909/910 did... (more)

MN&S 40, Soo 741 on #909 with 48 cars about to pass under the US-2 overpass just east of Gould City.