Awesome 💚 👌 👏 👍 😊

Is this in Arden Hills?

And you showed the good part, Bob.

I love that, “doink, doink, doink” sound of the bell! 😂

The SD45s are of SP heritage, while the F45 is of BN heritage. During this time the SD45s were still wearing SP paint, while the F45 was wearing BN paint with a flying "U".

Great show Bob!!

Love this stuff...

Very cool. I was born in summer of '77 and we lived just south of the (what used to be double) tracks between Lexington Ave and Victoria St in Shoreview. Our house was within walking distance to Island Lake Elementary School. I remember Soo Line and BN going by every day. I even still have some HO trains from back then. Great layout!

Summer Months of 2000,to be exact.The Company Carrier operated until Spring of the following year when it became History.

Nice solid F9s . What ever happened to them

Killer video of the SOO Line action from MN... I have SOO Line 767 as my phone opening picture !!!

Wish they'd keep the F's

Nice!

Incredible footage !

Fantastic footage. Especially with the sound 😎

I wondered why the 2554 sounded like a GP9 but had the front of a GP38. I did a little digging and learned it is indeed a GP9 but was wrecked and rebuilt using a Southern Pacific GP35 hood. It was unofficially called a GP22. And as a bonus it's working with 416, one of the Dolly Sisters!

Thank You for sharing this! Brings back many fond memories. Watching and listening to those ole F7's kind of puts a lump in my throat. I loved watching from trackside back in the 70's as a kid. Ken,....

I only saw a SOO F7 once at bennsenville....other than that when I lived in illinois I lived near the CNW so I saw alot of theirs running Belvidere local on the weekends when mom would go out....in 1979 dad worked at CRIP so I do remember Fs and Es pulling freight ...

Incredible layout, incredible scenery. And, I like that the trains travel along at a good speed - and not continuously plod so slowly that one can count the number of times to wheels revolve, lol. That drives me crazy, since prototype train speeds are variable.

Love them old green/white BN. GE U 330Cs. Pushn them filled coal cars back. Their sound is so strong, almost sounds like my 1951 John Deere A tractors, more please, more, 💪🤠😁👍👍

Take me back 1994

I was in Gillette back in July 1988, and I saw lots of coal trains like these.

Great video of the SOO Line train, Bob! I liked seeing the cars in the consist!

Cool 😎 sounds! Love the old GP7!

Nice footage! Especially with the SOO engine with the red letter. 🤠

Wow! that was awesome! I have never seen a geep smoke that much before. Most cool sound 😎.

Bob are you filming where the future home of the MN science museum is now?

Where is this mine? LTV had several operations in northern Minnesota.

good throttle

Awesome video 😎👍 I have 3 WC SD45's I run on my G scale layout. Thanks for sharing

Bob, the Minnesota Commercial has several ALCo diesels, including the only 2 surviving RS-27 units. Both units were bought from the Green Bay & Western.

Love the track conditions,looks like a derailment could happen at any time with them heavy hoppers.

LEGENDARY TIMES

What was this footage recorded with?

Bob, I certainly liked watching your video of the Erie Mining locomotives at work at the mines

I really miss locomotives painted in BN green! Thanks, Bob, for posting this.

I am thankful that you captured this meet, Bob!

Thank you, Bob, for capturing the Soo Line in Minneapolis and St. Paul starting in April 1979. You certainly put your first-generation video camera to work!

The LS&I U-boats were very colourful to watch, Bob! Thanks for your effort!

Thanks, Bob, for venturing to Upper Michigan to videotape the former Santa Fe ALCo RSD-15! I am thankful it was donated to the Illinois Rwy Museum!

damn.. Iwish I could do this stuff.

4:00 used to live near that railroad until 2019. Loved railfanning and insulator hunting there.

I live in Sparta wis located in western wi and it was common to see both soo and Milwaukee road locomotives run together.

Thank you Bob for filming this. Without you the world would have never seen this.

I watch a lot of these videos of ALCo's. I like to watch one with these engines in run 8 so I can really hear that 251.

One thing about the old school films.....no bloody spraypaint....

It's cool to see old Milwaukee Road trains 🚂

Chuga Choo Choo! I'm a train and I approve this video !!

NO way is that this awesome!!!!!!!Thanks so much!!!!!

Wow, 5 locomotives and still lugging up that steep 2% grade. I remember seeing 8 gp7s and gp9s lashed up on a cpr grain train lugging up grade by my parents cottage at ingolf. It could be heard almost 20 miles away.