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Soo Line train 19 has just left North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and is now cruising through farm country at Van Dyne on August 23, 1987. Power for the train is an amazing set of four EMD GP9s; Nos. 2550, 400, 411 and 4231, all chanting away on the main line to Neenah as seen from the overpass on the south side of town.
Soo Line EMD SD60 No. 6057 leads an eastbound stack train through Kittredge east of Lenark, Illinois, on April 7, 1990. This location is at mile 114.9 on the former Milwaukee Road main line between Chicago and Savanna.
Milwaukee Road EMD GP40 No. 2001 leads Soo Line train 249 westbound out of the yard at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on October 3, 1987. A man in the elevated signal tower on the right still manually controls the nearby road grade crossings signals and gates at this late date.
Canadian Pacific train 571 speeds through a Wisconsin snowstorm at Pewaukee on January 16, 1994. The train is led by former Soo Line EMD SD40-2 No. 6603, now painted in parent Canadian Pacific colors, and a pair of former Milwaukee Road locomotives.
Just east of Soo Line’s sprawling, former Milwaukee Road Bensenville Yard, an eastbound Soo Line freight meets a westbound Grand Trunk Western train at Franklin Park, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. On two of the tracks to the left, a pair of Soo Line EMD GP9s switch cuts of stacks and piggyback trailer flat cars for the railroad’s Bensenville Intermodal Terminal.
Trailing the traditional caboose, Soo Line train No. 218 kicks up powdery snow on a very cold February 25, 1994, at Duplainville, Wisconsin.
Soo Line train 12, powered by Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 158 and former Kansas City Southern EMD SD40 No. 626, is about to roll over Brookfield Road grade crossing in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on July 25, 1987. The Soo Line hi-rail utility truck is parked under the eve of Brookfield depot.
Soo Line EMD GP30 No. 716 leads Soo train 17 westbound at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 7, 1987. The view is along Mount Vernon Avenue not far west of Milwaukee’s Amtrak Station.
Soo Line train 11, powered by EMD GP30 Nos. 716 and 703, slowly moves west toward Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987. As the train approaches the Springdale Road grade crossing, Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder pops into view and passes the freight on the eastbound main.
Soo Line EMD GP7 No. 376 sits in the north siding off the westbound main line at Brookfield, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 7, 1991, as the westbound Amtrak Empire Builder flies by the vintage depot.
An eastbound Soo Line intermodal train, still operating like one of Milwaukee Road’s “Sprint” trains, approaches the end of double track at Raymore, Wisconsin, at sunset on September 26, 1987. Two main tracks go to one here for the trip through Wisconsin’s only active railroad tunnel at appropriately-named Tunnel City.
CP ballast train 9WPA-11 takes the curve at Maple Lake on a beautiful spring day. A total of 5 foamers at this location for the SD60's. The train will meet an eastbound before starting to dump its ballast at the siding at South Haven.
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Soaking up some of the last sunlight of the day, Soo Line train 11 and its pair of GP30s throw exhaust into the sky while topping the grade at Byron, Wisconsin, on July 26, 1987.
CP J36 crosses the Mississippi River into Northeast Minneapolis behind a pair of GP20C-ECOs. This bridge was built in 1905 replacing an earlier structure built in 1886.
The springtime sun is a bit filtered at Reeseville, as this Soo Line (CP) grain extra hustles eastbound with 7,600 horses leading the way in the form of a pair of Soo Line SD60's.
Grain Extra
SOO 6030,6024
Reeseville, WI.
May 1995
Soo Line train 11 meets train 18 at Rugby, Wisconsin, late in the afternoon of July 26, 1987. Train 11 is led by Soo EMD SD40 No. 780, while a pair of EMD GP30s built in 1963 powers train 11.
It may be another cloudy day, but spring has sprung at Duplainville, as Lonnie captured a northbound Soo Line freight crossing The Milwaukee Road's La Crosse Division with a rather interesting consist of a SD40-2, F7 and a SW1200, while holding at the eastbound home signal with his freight led by a venerable GP9.
Duplainville, WI.
May 1977
Lonnie Maves photo,
D.A.Longley collection
All Rights Reserved
The hazy autumn sun is about done for the day, as Soo Line's Ford train pulls through the Cut Off in Milwaukee. The conductor has made the cut at the tannery crossing, and will reach into Muskego yard for some additional freight for the Twin Cities.
Soo Line Train 203
EMD 8302, 8301
Milwaukee, WI.
Oct 1988
One of those glorious early autumn afternoons in Watertown, finds Canadian Pacific's local, G67 working the Watertown yard with a rather beat former Milwaukee Road speed champion doing the honors.
CP G67
SOO 2010,4438
Watertown, WI.
Autumn 2015
Soo Line train 205 cruises west on the former Milwaukee Road main line at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987. The view is from Highway J overpass, and this area west of Duplainville has changed quite a bit, more people and all built up, and not as “rural” anymore. Hell, it isn’t even Highway J either, changed to Highway 164 by someone that knows better.
It's one of those cold and dark December afternoons, as Canadian Pacific's eastbound grain train rolls into Reesevile at the Maiden Lane bridge. There is something interesting about those dark days when the deep blue horizon lighting signals winter's approach.
CP Train 384
CP 6027,CSX 7510,7492
Reeseville, WI.
December 6, 2015
I have no idea who shot this view of 392 at Shoreham on November 2, 1963. Whoever the photographer was he/she was in the right place at the right time. 392 looks to be fresh out of a repaint and it would last until spring 1969 serving the SOO. Chuck Schwesinger collection.
Under a backdrop of grain elevators, an eastbound freight led by Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 137 slowly works its way through Muskego Yard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 6, 1986. A little over 11 months previous, Soo Line took over the Milwaukee Road, and its influence can already be seen in trailing SD39 No. 6240 and red and white cars on the caboose track.
South of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, a Soo Line freight attacks the grade up Byron Hill on March 22, 1987. This was in the colorful Lake States era on this portion of the original Soo Line, with this train rating two Soo GP9s and a leased Conrail GP35.
It's the first day of November 2015, and the beautifully restored American Locomotive Company 2-8-2 Mikado, steams into Burnett on the Wisconsin & Southern's Oshkosh sub.
Soo Line 1003
Burnett, WI.
November 1, 2015
Late day clouds envelope the scene at Harwood Avenue in Wauwatosa, as Soo Lines westbound Ford train hustles through town with the typical motive power of the day, leading the way.
Train 425
Soo Line 6028,6004
Wauwatosa, WI.
September 1990
I caught this extremely late running 910 just east(compass north) of Dafter on October 6, 1983. 910 was normally a morning arrival at Soo yard but I can safely say this is about 4:25PM as I shot it off the mail truck and I was scheduled to do a 4:30PM pick up at Dafter PO in that era. 910 running this late actually put him in 912's time window at this location. Anyway its a typical Upper Peninsula fall sky as 784 and 704 hustle 42 cars east.
It's May 1985 inside of the former Milwaukee Road Bensenville diesel house, when Lonnie captured the Soo Line GP30 711, getting some running repairs before being sent back out on the road.
SOO 711
Bensenville, IL
May 1985
Lonnie Maves photo,
D.A.Longley collection
All Rights Reserved
A pleasant autumn evening in Milwaukee, finds a pair of EMD lease units leading the Ford Train (203) westbound through the beer city in the golden hour.
Soo Line 203
EMD 8302,8301
Milwaukee, WI.
Autumn 1988
Still looking like a true Milwaukee Road Ford train, except for the vandalized trailing Hiawatha scheme locomotive, tells us that the Soo Line now has control of the former Milwaukee. Here on the west end of Oconomowoc at the Moraine Oil spur, the Soo Line Ford train hustles upgrade and westbound on the westbound main towards the Twin Cities, which will be removed in a few years. I was dabbling with Kodak Tri X 400 iso black and white film at the time for it's great detail and gray scale values and am considering trying Tri X again, as it now has finer grain and a reduction of silver.
Soo Line rain 203
MILW 165,195
Oconomowoc, WI.
June 1986
Judging by the turbulence in the clouds, a snowfall is on it's way. Canadian Pacific's eastbound coke train 804 will be long gone by the time the snowflakes start falling however, with it's pair of Soo Line SD60/SD60M locomotives leading out of Astico and into Reeseville.
CP 804
SOO 6035, 6061
Astico, WI.
December 11, 2015
Yesterday I posted a view of this job pulling into the siding at Gilchrist so today I'll add this rescan of 744 and 709 grinding up the hill west of Gilchrist with train 910 on January 14, 1984.
The crews all preferred second generation hoods as leaders and seldom were F's found in the lead of trains east of Gladstone after about 1973 or so. 2225-A was picked up in Trout Lake after 737 and 502-C had powered this heavy train 911 out from Sault Ste. Marie on this bitterly cold January morning in 1977. Rather than running 2225A around the wye in Trout Lake this crew just tacked the F on the point and are making good time as they rip thru Rexton at or maybe a little above the authorized 40mph speed limit. Merry Christmas 2019 to everyone out in Flickr land from Sonya and I.
Canadian Pacific's westbound train 289, starts to roll at Tamarack after 199 got by. This train will cross over to let Amtrak's westbound empire builder by on this chilly November late afternoon.
CPTrain 289
CP 4522, SOO 4598, IC&E 6410
Reeseville, WI.
November 26, 2013
Looking back now its hard to find fault with either of the units leading but at the time the MN&S 41 looked like the best option. I never really was a big fan of the SOO's GP38-2 fleet photographically even though they were damn fine units to work with. I never forgave them for sending the covered wagons to the boneyard. 4412 and 41 zip by Gilchrist with a short 21 car 909 on February 23, 1984.
Fresh out of the Electro Motive Division of General Motors factory in La Grange Illinois fifty eight years ago, a trio of Milwaukee Road's stylish GP30's sit in Soo Lines Schiller Park yard awaiting delivery to The Milwaukee Road at Bensenville where they will be in charge of the hottest freights.
MILW 353,351,350
Schiller Park, IL
July 7, 1963
No Photographer Noted On Slide
From my Collection.
This weeks SNS shows SOO 2200-A leading 721 at an unknown location on May 4,1973. Photo is by A.T. Hennek, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
A Soo Line local with a single SD40-2 for power rolls northward out of Gladstone, Michigan. The section car setout and shed is another element that has disappeared from the fabric of modern railroading.
Soo Line 788 and a pair of CN SD's are tied down at Lakeshore Drive in North Fond du Lac next to the empty crossing attendant bungalow. In a few minutes a crew will climb aboard and take the train towards Schiller Park, just outside of Chicago.
SOO 788
CN 5008
CN 5024
North Fond du Lac, WI.
August 1984
On December 7, 1979 I caught SOO 700 on an Extra West just getting out of the yard at Trout Lake in a bit of a squall. Being I'm going to have to go out this morning fire up the tractor to dig out the trucks and yard it seems like a fitting shot especially being its Thursday. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. A rescan with lightroom improvements.
SOO 765 leads 755 and 4436 along with 55 cars westbound with train 911 near Trout Lake on December 3, 1985. By this time 911 was usually a very late evening train out of Soo yard but due to bad weather this job had fallen way off it's normal operating window and it ended up passing Trout Lake about 13:30, roughly 14 hours behind its normal schedule. It worked out for me as I was able to nail it in good sun here at MP447.5 and then I gave chase even though the sky was at least 8/10's cloud cover. After a couple more CF's I got it again in good light at Garnet before returning home a happy man:). A rescan.
I'd like to wish everyone out in flickr land a Happy New Year. Also I'd like to apolagize for my lack of comments on all the fantastic material out there. I also have had little time to scan and clean up slides so my postings have suffered to. This is the case with this view I've choose as a Happy New Year posting. It's been posted before but its what I have available at the moment. Wishing everyone the best this coming year and hoping our lives return to some sense of normallacy and freedom!! SOO 765 leads 755 and 4436 along with 55 cars westbound with train 911 near Trout Lake on December 3, 1985. By this time 911 was usually a very late evening train out of Soo yard but due to bad weather this job had fallen way off it's normal operating window and it ended up passing Trout Lake about 13:30, roughly 14 hours behind its normal schedule. It worked out for me as I was able to nail it in good sun here at MP447.5 and then I gave chase even though the sky was at least 8/10's cloud cover. After a couple more CF's I got it again in good light at Garnet and Gilchrist before returning home a happy man:). A rescan.