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Fall 1993 Issue IN EVERY ISSUE Soo News STAFF Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor/Soo News Soo News South Shore News Wiconsin Central News Modeling Editor MN&S News Editorial Assistant Draftsman Production Assistant Commercial Accounts Advertising Manager Back Issues
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My Ride on 261A True Tale of Adventure and Intrigue by Larry E. Easton Milwaukee Road 261 was supposed to arrive in Neenah shortly after noon -- that's what the man in the yard office had told me. It was now almost half past. With the Society's weekend trip still strongly etched in my mind, I knew what was coming and could hardly wait! "I see smote." Marge said calmly, as she studied the tracks to the south, "See, beyond the Bell Street Bridge.".... |
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Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore OperationsPart 5: The decline of the Cuyuna Range by Jim Welton In the first few years after its construction, passenger and freight service at Deerwood more than justified an agency. By the summer of 1913 the demand for electricity became so great on the range that the small power plant at Deerwood was unable to furnish adequate and satisfactory service. The Cuyuna Range Power Company made arrangements to construct a dam across the Crow Wing River near Sylvan. A one million dollar bond issue was floated to construct dams for power at Sylvan and Pillager. This arrangement eventually eliminated the coal movement into Deerwood for the Soo Line.... Including:
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Modeler's Roundtableby Chuck Derus and Douglas Fleming The SOO LINE built one hundred 50-ton hopper cars at their North Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin shops in 1952. They were numbered 6401-6599 (odd numbers only). ... These hoppers were never too common in the Waukesha, Wisconsin area, but Guy recalls them in the 1960-70's appearing as No 6553 above - complete with a fair amount of surface rust. ...
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Unloading Coal -and- The Railroad Handled Just About Everythingby Lester Kruta In the late 1930's and early 40's, coal was the fuel most widely used for heating, at least in the Southam, North Dakota. Fuel oil was not in widespread use and wood was unavailable. Grain elevators sold coal and had sheds located alongside the Soo Line tracks for coal storage. The Southam coal sheds were built about 1912 and thirty ton box cars were used and each bin in the sheds would hold one car of coal. One of the Southam elevator shed contained five bins and the other had four.
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