SOO 4514 at Hastings, MN, 11/13/02.

SOO 4428 at Duluth, MN, 7/26/01. The 1st car behind the locomotives is "on the ground"!

SOO 6037 at St Paul, MN, 9/15/05.

The Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company (SOO LINE) dates back to the 1880's. Most of their service area was North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan's UP. In 1985 they acquired many remnants of the Milwaukee Road extending their domain into Iowa.  Canadian Pacific owned a majority interest in the SOO for many years and purchased all the stock in 1992 and operated it as a wholly owned subsidiary.  The SOO was folded into CP Rail in the late 1990's.

SOO 6043 at St Paul, MN, 11/14/02.

SOO 2064 at Homer, MN, 11/01/02 with the Mississppi River background.   2064 is one of the remaining locomotives acquired from MILW Road in "Blackbeard" paint scheme, also known as "bandits".