SOO LINE, The great sounds of stick rail and caboose's still in use. "CLASSIC SERIES" 1991
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It was filmed in the early 1990's in Illinois and Iowa. The SOO LINE back then was mostly stick rail and still running cabooses. Locations were Savanna, IL, were it crosses the diamond with BN. Bettendorf, AND Sabula, Iowa. Were it crosses the Mississippi River. Last clip shows the bridge opening for river traffic.
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To me--- the SOO will ALWAYS have the red and white paint, with the large black letters.
Absolutely stunning!!!
Wow, I’d forgotten what fast trains on jointed rail sounded like. I grew up with Great Northern’s west side line in the Twin Cities behind our back yard, about 1966 or so. We got all the empty reefer trains headed back west and stuff the Milwaukee Road called “dead freight.” For power, more often than not it was F-7’s with a bright vermillion caboose trailing. If they were going fast enough it sounded just like the first segment of this video. That really takes me back.
Man the memories! I was a young whipper snapper in 1990-1992...many outings camping with the neighbors kids and seeing SOO in Savana and the dells as well as BN and CC.
The ex Milw Road trackage was in rough shape after years of deferred maintenance.
Awesome 😊
Good Gawd Almighty, This is on another level. The Soo line isn't very well documented in photos much less video. This is pure Gold,Thanks for another Banger of a video Jack ✌️💯
Blows me away as I know where most of these were taken xDD.
My Favorite was tge St Paul to Kansas City Sprint Trains. Short Intermodal trains
That one eastbound coming into Sabula with 6027 leading, was a short Intermodal. But It was probably headed to Chicago. The picture I got, captured the complete train, maybe 30-35 stacks, and caboose.
@@1jackdk the St Paul to KC and St Paul to Nahant Yard in Davenport different route that never went to Savanna it went by Quad Cities it was good Size Manifest Trains usually run with 125cars plus a Minneapolis to Mason City ADM Grain Train took those route via Quad Cities .only Overnight Train Soo Ran from Shoreham Yard in Northeast Minneapolis to Schiller Park and Vice versa came through here went I first visited the Twin Cities in 1985
With those two-axle Front Runner spine cars.
@@douglasskaalrud6865 those where good cars back in those days
In the second clip were those Nathan Pes... Yay!!!
I need to figure out all of the freight cars that were in service in SOO LINE trains back then.
Great video, love the vintage feel of the VHS. And, as usual, the camera view, the scenery and the composition are consistently superb. Question : why the extra caboose? Just moving one around?
Thank you. As for the caboose, they may have been just moving the extra one to another location. I have seen that many times with other railroad, and got picture of two and three cabooses on the rear. Some times its because there is more traffic in one direction than another, and they need to run them back. Thanks for watching. www.flickr.com/photos/jackdk/24152995316/in/album-72157655601559632/
Cabooses are kept at locations around the railroad where crewing needs might dictate their use. Cabooses need to be serviced and stocked so trains with two or three cabooses will stop to exchange them. Cabooses are also like locomotives in that there may be more movements of trains in one direction than the other so there is a buildup of cabooses in one spot. Caboose moves are then made to balance out availability.
Being on a caboose with a flat wheel has the be the worst
I think most Soo Line cabooses at least one. For sure MN&S cabooses did.
I didn't catch that the first time. 😂😂😂