Nostalgia & History > DSS&A Baldwin DT6-6-2000 center cab

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic DT6-6-2000 7/61 Alan Miller Collection ... was this known as the 'fruit salad' scheme, or something like that?

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Bob Anderson original slide

Looks like Marquette Michigan.

I thought the "fruit salad" scheme pertained to the SAL's E units. Maybe this would qualify also!

One of these got painted in the red/white Soo Line scheme and another got the experimental Soo scheme of solid dark brown-ish red. Some fans dubbed it "The Chocolate Soldier" (from a 1894 novel (later made into an operetta), referring to a good-looking but useless warrior).

TJY

icancmp193 Wrote:
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> One of these got painted in the red/white Soo Line
> scheme and another got the experimental Soo scheme
> of solid dark brown-ish red. Some fans dubbed it
> "The Chocolate Soldier" (from a 1894 novel (later
> made into an operetta), referring to a
> good-looking but useless warrior).
>
> TJY


Not great shots but here are the other two paint schemes you mentioned ...

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RARE!
Bob

All very interesting shots, thanks guys! === === = === JLH

Thanks for posting images of these locomotives in the DSS&A and Soo Line schemes.

That center cab was the only red/white locomotive to receive the full roadname "SOO LINE." Everything else only carried the word "SOO" on the long hood.

NZ