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Soo/Milwaukee 1985

In filtered light, three Milwaukee Road GP40s lift a southbound train out of the Lake Superior basin nearing Foxboro on the BN. The date of this photo is May 22, 1985.

 

The Soo Line had been awarded the Milwaukee a few months earlier in February and this train is operating for a subsidiary the Soo formed to hold the Milwaukee Road until it could be officially absorbed by the corporation on December 31, 1985.

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Uploaded on October 31, 2014
Taken on May 22, 1985