A Soo Line grain extra storms westbound through Brookfield, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 19, 1987. When built in July 1973, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 16, was originally numbered 177, but was renumbered when equipped as a Locotrol Master, for an early radio-control system where remote locomotives positioned back in a freight train consist could be controlled by a “master” unit.

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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.

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A westbound Soo Line freight passes 7th Street Interlocking in Kansas City, Kansas, on the afternoon of September 15, 1990. Curving by to the north is an eastbound Union Pacific freight, above which, is the skyline of downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

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Soo Line EMD SW9 No. 2114 sits beneath the towering twin water tanks at Soo’s Shoreham Yard roundhouse at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 1984.

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Soo Line train 17 is crossing the east siding switch at March, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 17, 1987. The train is powered by a pair of Soo EMD GP30s, along with a leased Conrail EMD GP38 that is still in Penn Central black.

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