A westbound train with a couple of SD60's holds at West Ebner IL.

Tom Golden photo.

SOO 6027 leading and 6026 trailing bracket two CSX motors with an Ethanol train past the Metra station at Elgin, Illinois. Line is former Milwaukee Road now CP Savanna to Bensenville.

SOO SD60 6027 leads CP 281 east through Elmwood Park.

SOO 6027 leads train 470 through Northbrook, passing the Milwaukee Road searchlights that are still guarding the plant at "Tower A-20."

CP 470 arrives at Bensenville on a perfect April afternoon. A Soo Line SD60 leads the way, followed by a UP GEVO and a CSX SD40-2.

SOO 6027 is in charge of eastbound train 470 on a sunny morning in Sturtevant, WI. On its way to Chicago, the old veteran splits a set of classic Milwaukee Road searchlights.

On April Fool's Day 2017, Soo Line SD60 6027 highballs train 281 by the depot in Oconomowoc.

It's no fooling, as one of the two remaining Soo Line SD60's leads CP 281 out of Milwaukee, bound for the Twin Cities.

Peekaboo! SOO 6027 emerges from the Hunter Street tunnel in downtown Hamilton with Canadian Pacific train no. 246 from Sudbury, Ontario.

Train 246 emerges from the downtown core of Hamilton, setting off a lengthy cut in Kinnear Yard before tackling the 2% grade of the Niagara Escarpment.

Part of a dying breed, one of the few remaining SD60s in SOO livery leads train 246 over the crest of the Niagara Escarpment.

A SOO Line SD60 makes a rare appearance in the southeast, leading NS train 164 through the mountains of north Alabama about an hour before sunset. The fall colors were beginning to peak in the sou... (more)

A CP crew member releases ballast rock remotely filling in gaps along the Canadian Pacific Noyes Subdivision northwest of Thief River Falls.

Soo Line 6027 approaches a rural grade crossing north of Thief River Falls as it deposits new ballast rock along the Noyes Subdivision.