Love the soo line. Grew up in the 1970’s in river forest Illinois with the soo line literally running through my backyard. I will never forget seeing unit 1776 with brand new bicentennial paint scheme in 1976. I was 11 years old.
Every summer visiting my Great Grandmother in Ironwood we'd see the Soo Line running through town and when i wanted to go into model railroading in High School I knew immediately that the Soo was what I was going to do.
Love the scale Griswold rotating banner signals! Those things used to be everywhere in the Twin Cities. I wonder if there are any remaining that have the STOP sign still in place anymore?
Heading back down the hill, one engine may have been returning to Shoreham yard (using the near track) while the other was probably going to Humboldt yard (crossing over to the far track). Maybe the usual GP-9 pusher set nearly always found hanging around at Humboldt was working Transfer-1 and the Dash-2 was punting for them. More than likely though was that the engine was needed to help power a train of empty grain hoppers over the Paynesville sub to Glenwood and on to North Dakota. Soo Line didn’t have the luxury of parking idling locomotives yet and wouldn’t until the purchase of the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern added some helper power to the Shoreham pool. The MN&S takeover was closely followed by the benefits flowing from the Great GP38-2 Invasion that gradually eased the horsepower shortage. 40 years on and CP still leans on those locomotives.
You got the 791 in the hockey stick scheme with the red lettering I see although it is hard to tell in the video. I made a model of her with that Oddballs decal set thinking it would look pretty good in HO. It doesn’t look good and I can see why the Soo went back to the black lettering. It doesn’t look horrible, and the Oddballs set has a near-perfect rendition of the modified Venus Bold Extended “S,” but I cringe when I put that model on the layout; it’s definitely not my favorite Soo Line engine. I guess for lack of a better term, that lettering just looks “yucky.” It’s too monochromatic with the red paint. My model is an Athearn “blue box” which I put a ton of work into including modeling the hatches and hardware over the engine compartment. This was long before factory models came out with those hatches done. Many of those parts I put on after the model was painted and I can’t bear the thought of deconstructing it, re-doing the paint using black decals and then reconstructing it. I guess the 3M “Scotchlite” salesmen wouldn’t take no for an answer from the Soo.
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Love the soo line. Grew up in the 1970’s in river forest Illinois with the soo line literally running through my backyard.
I will never forget seeing unit 1776 with brand new bicentennial paint scheme in 1976. I was 11 years old.
One of the top model railroads on TH-cam
Soo line used to come to Calumet, MI, when I was a teen. I ran a mile to watch the train. Got in trouble one night. The train came in around 12 AM,
Great job recreating that scene from the video you shot!
Every summer visiting my Great Grandmother in Ironwood we'd see the Soo Line running through town and when i wanted to go into model railroading in High School I knew immediately that the Soo was what I was going to do.
My parents were looking for me when I was in town chasing trains... LOL
Very cool! Nice job.
That HO scene is sooo cool! Sounds and weathering really brings it home. Just awesome.
Love the scale Griswold rotating banner signals! Those things used to be everywhere in the Twin Cities. I wonder if there are any remaining that have the STOP sign still in place anymore?
I'm curious as to why they would break off the helpers separately? Helper for the helper. lol?
Heading back down the hill, one engine may have been returning to Shoreham yard (using the near track) while the other was probably going to Humboldt yard (crossing over to the far track). Maybe the usual GP-9 pusher set nearly always found hanging around at Humboldt was working Transfer-1 and the Dash-2 was punting for them. More than likely though was that the engine was needed to help power a train of empty grain hoppers over the Paynesville sub to Glenwood and on to North Dakota. Soo Line didn’t have the luxury of parking idling locomotives yet and wouldn’t until the purchase of the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern added some helper power to the Shoreham pool. The MN&S takeover was closely followed by the benefits flowing from the Great GP38-2 Invasion that gradually eased the horsepower shortage. 40 years on and CP still leans on those locomotives.
Great video ! The joy of DCC !!!!
You got the 791 in the hockey stick scheme with the red lettering I see although it is hard to tell in the video. I made a model of her with that Oddballs decal set thinking it would look pretty good in HO. It doesn’t look good and I can see why the Soo went back to the black lettering. It doesn’t look horrible, and the Oddballs set has a near-perfect rendition of the modified Venus Bold Extended “S,” but I cringe when I put that model on the layout; it’s definitely not my favorite Soo Line engine. I guess for lack of a better term, that lettering just looks “yucky.” It’s too monochromatic with the red paint. My model is an Athearn “blue box” which I put a ton of work into including modeling the hatches and hardware over the engine compartment. This was long before factory models came out with those hatches done. Many of those parts I put on after the model was painted and I can’t bear the thought of deconstructing it, re-doing the paint using black decals and then reconstructing it. I guess the 3M “Scotchlite” salesmen wouldn’t take no for an answer from the Soo.
Why didn't the bus and the van cross when they had the chance? 😆
Absolutely amazing. Now that’s replication of the real thing!
Cool video and great looking layout!
Very cool video. Nice job with the booster cutoff on the fly.
Fantastic video, great replication of the prototype, right down to the rolling stock.
Nice video. I really like how you replicated the prototype.
Very nice!
Now that’s. Awesome…