Soo Line 6019 is eastbound at Elm Grove, WI in January of 1990. The switch in the foreground is for the Airline secondary line to Milwaukee.
SOO daily "hotshot" from the Twin Cities to KC, the 431 train, nears the junction at Samoa.
The conductor on the #431 train gives a friendly wave from the front porch of SOO 6019.
Predawn....
Crew members from the newly arrived CP 199 cross in front of another CP train.
NS-31j pulls the grade heading west @ 3:39pm after being overboard for 12 hours
An unusual routing brings this unit sulphur train down the Big Sandy sub.