A Tribute to the Soo Line

If you are a fan of the Soo Line, you'll love this video! Since the Canadian Pacific Railway took over the Soo Line in the early 1990's, it has become a rare sight to see Soo Line locomotives leading trains, especially on original Soo Line tracks. Most Soo locomotives were being sold or repainted, while others were reassigned to service in Canada. C. Vision Productions has captured the images of these red and white locomotives in, "A Tribute to the Soo Line." Our crew traveled the original Soo Line on the Paynesville Subdivision from Glenwood to Minneapolis, Minnesota to capture the Soo locomotives leading trains. We also followed the Soo on the old Milwaukee Road main line following the Mississippi River from St. Paul to River Junction.

Five main locomotive types from the Soo Line are featured in this program. Venerable SD 40 dash 2's, GP 38 dash 2's and GP 40's can be seen pulling freight through the rolling prairies of Minnesota, along with the larger SD 60's and SD 60M's. We even see Soo Line cabooses still in use on way freights and locals! Each train is also identified by its symbol.

Don't miss "A Tribute to the Soo Line," as it is one of the last videos to show you these original locomotives in charge of moving commodities across the upper Midwest.

Copyright 2000, C. Vision Productions

Color/HiFi sound/60 minutes
Minimal narration

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[thetrainman407]

What do you mean it is hard to find SOO Line engines leading CP trains? Go to the CP river sub, and I will pretty much bet my life you can find a SOO SD60 leading a manifest or intermodal.

[clasko69]

@thetrainman407 Yes, that is true. But this video was done in 2000, when CP assigned all the SD-60's to Toronto for a number of years. As is the case with anything, things change.

[clasko69]

You are welcome. I also like the variety of EMD power they had, especially the SD-60M's.

[dumbheadize]

I was wondering what was CP doing in the US.

[dumbheadize]

Same thing for the Union Pacific as you know they bought Southern Pacific and you'll see some SP locomotives being used as well.

[awsomeRailFan]

3:41 is some horn fun

[kickflip1234100]

random question: whenever a railroad is taken over by another are the workers of the fallen flag fired or do they just transfer thier jobs over to the railroad taking over

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[MrMixNix]

Anyone that knows soo line really good might know part of my family. I could be wrong be wrong but I'm pretty sure my great grandpa used to be a breakman for soo line. I'll try and get a name for you. Just comment back and I'll try and get a name tomorrow.

[CPWindsorsub]

I'm glad SOO was bought by CP because CP doesn't repaint units that belong to fallen flag railroads, they sti

[southern4501isawesom]

i saw a soo line in belmont north carolina it had soo with a line thru it to say soo isnt the owner of the locomotive anymore and HLCX under the numbers...

[mbw1001]

the EMD models SD40, SD60, etc... do the numbers like "60" refer to the length of the locos???