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)

I was fortunate enough to have a couple parents who sometimes questioned the cost factor of my railfan adventures but generally were good sports about the whole thing. When I was off to work eithe... (more)

Before trains 909/910 were extended from Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie the Soo ran a local six days a week to handle the business that trains 911/912 didn't stop for. Most of the time it was a single... (more)

On a frigid March morning train 911 is Chicago bound at Gilchrist with 76 cars powered by 2203A,747 and 213A. Thirteen days to the first day of "spring" and nothing could have seemed farther away ... (more)

Soo 6600,776,551 wander westbound through a little fresh snow with a 59 car train 911 two miles west of Trout Lake. The 6600 would be destroyed in a catastrophic head on collision in the summer of... (more)

An A-B-A set of Soo F's roll train 911 west at Garnet with 76 cars. FP7 2501A leads 503C and 212A on this cold morning. Sets like this were so common between Gladstone and Sault Ste. Marie in the ... (more)

Soo train 11 with 4230 and ex KCS 626 are nearing Trout Lake with 43 cars. The 4230 was renumbered away from the Soo 550 series to avoid conflicts with Ex Milwaukee SD10 rebuilds, most of which we... (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)

By the winter of 1987 getting many photos of Soo trains in Upper Michigan had become difficult. The few trains that still operated after the rerouting of the COFC traffic onto CSX rails from Detro... (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)

Late running train 911, after being stuck with local work at Trout Lake and heading for a meet with a tardy eastbound extra at Gilchrist makes short work of the snow and cold as it rips through Ga... (more)

A late evening train 912 powered by a pair of SD40's, 749 and 744 sift through fresh powder and a snow squall as they hurry east.

By the early to mid 80's the Soo's GP30 fleet was getting a little ragged. The Alco type B trucks that had come from the FA fleet were reportedly a pain to work on and as the economy went through ... (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)