Nostalgia & History > Soo/Milwaukee rare shot!

This shot encompases all five schemes that made up the Soo/Milwaukee System. There obviously is the hiawatha leading and trailing there is the original Soo scheme, the Soo hockey stick scheme, an ex-Milwaukee SD40-2 in the bandit scheme and the Milwaukee billboard scheme trailing. Pretty unbeleivable!

Martin

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Is this a "where is it?" picture?

I'll start with Wi., of course. On the old SOO, perhaps?

You have to put a date and place the pic was taken! Otherwise great pic!

It should be a whereizit except, I don't know! This is one of those wierd instances where there is nothing on the slide and all attempts to locate the photographer have failed miserably. I was actually going to say somewhere on the original Soo since it is single track...maybe south of Fond du Lac?

Martin

1986? 1987? Truly a classic. It was the END of the SOO LINE as we knew it! WC was formed in late 1987 and CP folded SOO LINE up into the evil empire in 1991 and started piecemealing out everything under the sun to shortlines like DMVW and TCW! The merger that should of NEVER happened! Truly sad.

Rail1

maybe its near Cottage Grove, MN. on the joint trackage?

myoungwisc Wrote:
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> This shot encompases all five schemes that made up
> the Soo/Milwaukee System. There obviously is the
> hiawatha leading and trailing there is the
> original Soo scheme, the Soo hockey stick scheme,
> an ex-Milwaukee SD40-2 in the bandit scheme and
> the Milwaukee billboard scheme trailing. Pretty
> unbeleivable!
>
> Martin


Where is the original Soo paint scheme (purple) loco?