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Canadian
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Soo MP15 1544 and three SD60s show off the three main schemes
Soo power wore in the 80's and 90's. Hoffman - Dayton's Bluffs - Andy
Inserra
The large Class 1 railroads are already extensively
documented online - these are some of the links we recommend...
CP Homepage
CP Roster
Soo Historical and Techincal
Society
Soo Line
Online
Soo Diesel Roster
Classic Soo
power - F units in the wash rack and a GE U30C on the next track at Shoreham
Yard in the late 70's - talk about the good old days for Soo fans! Thanks to
Greg Smith for the photos
Todd Madson found these two MP15s on the MNS
local in Oct '04, the rare all-red 1532 and a more common Milwaukee Road bandit
1543
For a time in the mid-90's Shoreham shops in Northeast Mpls
was a haven for finding stored rare power. Here a is MILW SW sitting in the
storage line. Scott Kotnour photo- 1997
And
SD40B #6450 [which would stay on with CP until mid-2004] with SD40 #6401 [now
FURX #3000]. Scott Kotnour photo - 1996
And a wide variety of classic Soo GP power also stored...
Scott Kotnour photo - 1996
And a view of the shops - they are
still mostly intact and in a perpetual state of "entering preseravtion" - the
folks in Northeast want to save the shops on Central Ave to house any number of
proposed things from a rail museum to shops, etc. but CP doesn't want to clean
up the area to allow for the sale of the buildings. Scott Kotnour photo from
1998 when things were wrapping up there and finally moving completely to Pig's
Eye shops in St Paul
Classic plows at Pig's Eye - a
former MILW flanger to the left and a plow to the right, both seem to be former
steam tenders... Scott Kotnour photo 1997
A
GP30C - now on TCW - and slug 2118 - now at
ILS - at the fuel rack at Shoreham... Scott Kotnour
photo
And lots of stored Soo SW units around the turntable at
Shoreham. Scott Kotnour photo - 1998
CP M636 #4704 visits Pig's Eye shops in 1998, CP would
occationally send the huge MLWs south to the Cities but it was a rare sight to
actually catch one on film. Scott Kotnour photo |
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