Who remembers when the Soo Line used to roll through the Copper Country?
This great image of the big locomotive for the Soo is on its way out of Calumet down to Lake Linden in November 1975. The locomotive itself was dedicated in September of that year and was put immediately into service, moving about all the facets of the Soo track ownership. On this particular Houghton County visit it was manned by Engineer George Hokenson, Brakeman Tom LeGault, Fireman Ken Stenson, Conductor Fancis Beaudry, and Brakeman Wilbert Kuopus.
If you have any fond memories of the Soo Line, or any other trains from the Copper Country, let us know in the comments!
I have a series of photos I took of the Soo Line’s diesel F7’s or “Covered Wagons” coming over the bridge with a short freight train. I then show them scooting down the Handcock side of the portage on a very snowy winter day from about 1974 or 75. I took then when visiting my sister who was another Techie and she had rented a house with other students toward the west end of Handcock just up from the tracks. I was up with my folks for Winter Carnival I believe. I was just learning how to take photos with my dad’s 1950’s era Kodak Retina IIa manual camera. Peter Eick, BS Geology ’82.
I have a series of photos I took of the Soo Line’s diesel F7’s or “Covered Wagons” coming over the bridge with a short freight train. I then show them scooting down the Handcock side of the portage on a very snowy winter day from about 1974 or 75. I took then when visiting my sister who was another Techie and she had rented a house with other students toward the west end of Handcock just up from the tracks. I was up with my folks for Winter Carnival I believe. I was just learning how to take photos with my dad’s 1950’s era Kodak Retina IIa manual camera. Peter Eick, BS Geology ’87.