WC, Wisconsin Central SDL-39 589 and ex-Algoma Central, WC SD40 6002, with a ore train at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. September 23, 1997. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Thanks for the 1/2 million views! WC 6359 teams up with an Algoma Central F-unit to switch the yard in Sault Ste. Marie in June of 1997. The International bridge looms in the background.

Algoma Central 188 is a early model SD40-2 built in 1973. The quartet makes a tough looking consist outside the Algoma shop complex in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. I was somewhat amazed that even a... (more)

SOO 4225 rests in front of the long gone roundhouse and turntable in Sault Ste. Marie on the last day of April 1987.

A late running train 11 arrives at Soo Yard with 717 leading a CR GP38 and SOO GP9 during the Lake States era.

A CN train moves across the busy Soo Locks at dusk. There is a single unit on the point and another four hopper cars back due to weight restrictions on the bridge. They will be combined once on th... (more)

WC 6656, 6601, 583, 589 and 106 cars at Soo Yard. At the time the WC didn't have a bridge tender on duty in the early mornings and train 35 ran late enough this day to get caught on the US side an... (more)

AC 1754 and WC 6624 are awaiting customs clearance and will soon be departing Soo Yard with 47 cars of ACR connection freight on train 134.

A shortage of pellets at Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie ONT prompted the LS&I/Soo Line to run about 15 all rail pellet moves in the spring of 1979. These jobs operated with LS&I power and Soo ho... (more)

WC train 135 drops downgrade at the west end of Soo yard lead by 2554 and AC 1750, 1754. A snowbank gave me the elevation for the photo which says a whole lot about Sault Ste. Marie in the winter.... (more)

Milwaukee Road 138 arrived in Sault Ste. Marie with a personality conflict...someone had done a neat job of painting a big Soo on the nose. Although the unit was property of the Soo Line at the ti... (more)

Soo GP-9 2554 was damaged in a derailment at Denham, MN on Sept. 23, 1978 and was sent to Diesel Electric Services a re-builder in the Twin Cities and came back as something christened a GP-22. Pa... (more)

CP 7099 on a transfer job from Sault Ste. Marie, MI to Sault Ste. Marie, ONT had pulled up to a red signal on the approach to the lift span over the Soo Locks. Trains delayed here back in the seve... (more)

Labor problems on the Soo/CSX sent CPR Montreal-Chicago traffic back onto its former route through Upper Michigan for a few days in April 1991. This westbound is getting ready to depart Soo Yard w... (more)

Getting a shot of a train with decent light coming off the lift bridge at Sault Ste. Marie, MI is quite a chore. The International Highway Bridge blocks most morning light and the trees on the wes... (more)