Soo Line (SOO) 743 - EMD SD40

Scanned from a print I took. Setting at the Muscatine depot.

Soo Line SD40 743 is resting on the wye at Schiller Park May 1969. This unit is likely fresh from EMD and may not have been on a revenue trip yet. Unknown Photographer Photo.

(Photographer unknown)

A massive power lineup on this westbound train just about to Soo Line/Milwaukee Pigs Eye yard is passing Newport on Main 2 with alot of tired GPs from the Milwaukee.

Westbound train a few miles west of the high bridge will be arriving in Withrow and then on to Shoreham yard.

WB at B17

Once CP started to integrate operation of the D&H systemwide, a 390 was established that ran from Minneapolis to Port of Albany. This train often got SOO power a lot of the time in solid sets. Todays effort is a mix of power, including one of CP's ex NS SD40-2's that was made into a B unit-note the 4th unit with blanked windows-as we see it passing signal 223-1 wrong main on the last lap into Binghamton with a typical train of 91 cars.

743

An freight heads east on the recently single-tracked main.

Train 284 marches through West Salem on it's trip to Columbia power plant.

Train 284 marches through West Salem on it's trip to Columbia power plant.

SOO SD40 743 westbound at Oak Park, Illinois on an unknown day in December 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. I believe this is a transfer run from the BRC at Clearing Yard (Bedford Park) to Bensenville. In less than a mile this train will climb over the traffic on the left (Eisenhower Expressway, I-90) and turn north, so they are running for the hill. Where you see automobiles in this photo was once the Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railway's right of way. The rails on the left are the CTA, the rails on the right I believe belonged to the B&OCT.

SOO 743, 751, and 96

SOO 96, 751, and 743

Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Schiller Park Yard.

SOO SD 40 743 Early 1980s