Is the SOO Line still in buisness? I haven’t seen any SOO Line locomotives or rolling stock in quite awhile.[B)] Thanks, Aric.[;)]
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They were bought by CP. I don’t know what happened from there but CP seems to be the SOO subsidiary seems to have been dissolved and officially a part of CP.
At least their locomotives and rollingstock still exist. I have even seen a caboose in Cambridge Ontario.
That’s good then. I’m glad I’m wrong.
The SOO lives…albeit under a very large CP umbrella. Are any units still painted for the Soo? Or will we have to wait to see it ride again, like the Milwaukee unit that was around last year?
Oh know, there are quite a few SOO units around in white and red. SD40s (white) and SD60Ms (red) are plentiful at times.
well, I would say there dead and alive I seen some SOO in different places
kevin
That what I thought too,But I guess I was wrong.
Still a few SOO locomotives out there…
I’ve seen a couple on CP lines recently.
Interesting…although they officially have 355 locomotives in service, their RR freight cars are included in the CP figures…so how independent are they, really? Is this just a paper designation for the most part?
I never new Soo was a controlled by CP that long i seen alot of soo Between minot north dakota to Minneapolis/stpaul and on the branch none and recently in minot just saw milwaukee road bandit and just recently met a Soo line friend number 6024 i saw it in town and then my dad gave me a salute to soo line video 3 weeks later and found it in a Stpaul locomotive shop and last year just saw it on the main line 45minutes north of where i live and now a days i am find it really a big treat to see a soo but brings me to my next Question is Soo line SD60’s on lease and reply would be helpful
There are plenty of engines with the SOO paint scheme. We have a regular train that runs from Nashville, TN to Blue Island yard (Q588) where most of the cars are tansferred to Bensenville and sent further up north.
In spite of what Mark said, I think the Soo’s days are numbered. I seriously doubt that we will be seeing any new Soo paint. When it’s gone, it’s gone. This is a long slow absorbtion process. All the real estate that was once marked Soo or Milwaukee, now says CP. Cars get CP paint with Soo reporting marks.
It seems like about 5 years back there was an announcement by CP that the transition was on. Did CP buy up the outstanding Soo stock, to take them from majority to 100%? Yes, the Soo still exists on paper, but one day, it will be no more. Take all the photos you can!!!
Interesting that Soo locomotives are shown separately and freight cars are included with CP’s total–one would expect the exact opposite to be true. All of the new locomotives have been lettered for CP, yet Soo in the past several years has gotten quite a few freight cars, notably covered hoppers and Center-Beam flats. The covered hoppers, despite their CP logos, carry SOO reporting marks. The SOO FBCs don’t have any logos on them.
Our interchange, at least on paper, is with CPRS, not with SOO.
I have seen many SOO boxcars, autoracks (Bi level), 89 foot flats, gondolas and some coal cars. All say SOO Line and have kept their reporting marks. I have even seen CP automax cars with SOO reporting marks.
Go to LaCrosse, WI and you will see plenty of SOO’s. Last year I caught three SOO GP38-2’s leading a CP GP38-2 with a SOO caboose on the end. Later in the day I headed up to Winona Minnesota to find two SOO GP38-2’s witha SOO caboose at the depot. They are around, you just have to find them.
Just because it is just so unusual:
I see Soo units in Indiana all the time. The Milwaukee Road fans will know why.
Gabe
The soo line is now part of the Canadian Pacific and has been since the late nintys!
The Soo line SD60 that are running around in SOO paint are not owned by the Railroad and will not be repainted unless they are bought!
Thay at one point where going to put the SD90 4300 hp power plant in to the SD60 making them a SD70 with very little upgrading! When the 6000 hp engines where avalable but we all know how that went!
Its nice to have freinds on the loco desk!
HERB
You’ll see a bunch of the CP locomotives with the white decal below the road number reading: “Proud to be part of CP Rail System”. I saw the third SOO line in my whole life last week, see the pix at:
http://uptrain.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=59004
http://uptrain.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=59005
http://uptrain.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=59006
http://uptrain.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=59007 …stop on by and take a look!
pictures of the elusive soo! thanks, UPTRAIN.