Soo Line at Morocco

A southbound Soo Line train comes through Morocco, Indiana on Conrails former Egyptian line on February 21st, 1988 at 2:30 pm with SOO 777-744 and 63 cars.

 

Morocco was known as "MR" in the NYC days and had a nice station, water tower and interlocking tower (in early days) at the crossing of the Chicago, Attica & Southern, which would have been seen in the distance where the tree line starts up on the right side of the tracks. The tower would have been located near the pile of gravel in the distance at left of the tracks. You can see that the telegraph poles were higher there to allow the CA&S to go underneath. Even when I took this photo in 1988, the CA&S had already been gone for 40 years and were near untraceable then. This is the only train I ever got a shot of in Morocco. View looks south from the SR 114 crossing.

 

Soo Line SD40-2 #777 was built by EMD in October of 1974.

 

Soo Line SD40 #744 was built by EMD in May of 1969.

 

Southbound Soo Line #204(?)

Morocco, Indiana

CR Danville secondary, MP IH 49.68

February 21st, 1988

 

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