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Memories: For the Love of the Railroad (Link to Table of Contents)

A 1983 joint publication of the SLHTS and SOO Line RR/Stories and
memories from the first 100 years of the SOO Line

Society Note: This issue is back in stock due to a recent stash being uncovered outside of the archives.

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Wisconsin Central Review

Gallery 1999
Changes at Schiller
Building the Iron Interstate
Upper Peninsula Gallery
Modeling paper service cars on the W.C.
Neenah, Wisconsin
Motive power review

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THE SOO back issues:

Vol.-No.	Description	Price
1-1 (original) - 1979	"Covered Wagons Come to the Soo"-part one "Waukesha, Wisconsin"-part one EMD F3, F7, FP7, Thrall gondola and GATC hopper plans.	SOLD OUT
1-1 (reprint)	"Covered Wagons Come to the Soo"-part one "Waukesha, Wisconsin"-part one EMD F3, F7, FP7, Thrall gondola and GATC hopper plans.	SOLD OUT
1-2	"The Laker" passenger train article "Waukesha, Wisconsin" part two with centersptread drawings of passenger station "Covered Wagons Come to the Soo"-part two, with builder's photos and detail chart	$4.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
1-3	"the Manitowoc Line" - part one, with fold-out panorama of downtown Manitowoc photographed in 1898 Diesel Photo Roster - part one.	SOLD OUT
1-4	"the Manitowoc Line" - part two, with fold-out plans of the Manitowoc depot and photo tour of the depots on the line Diesel Photo Roster - part two.	$4.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
2-1	"the Manitowoc Line" - part three,with maps and plans of Hilbert Junction Depot Fond du Lac Shops Diesel Photo Roster - part three.	SOLD OUT
2-2	GP7 diesel plans in color HO gauge diesel modeling article Diesel Photo Roster-part 4	$4.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
2-3	Finney's RR-the M.&L.W. S. Oshkosh enginehouse & depot plans Diesel Photo Roster-part 5	$4.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
2-4	The Mineral Range Railroad Company Copper Country Railroad Map Diesel Photo Roster-part 6	SOLD OUT
3-1	Plans of Crandon Depot Wisconsin & Northern Railroad Company Soo Line Gandy Dancer	$4.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
3-2	Plans of Electric Cars Valley City Street and Interurban Railway Company Railroading In Waupaca	SOLD OUT
3-3	Duluth - Superior Fond du Lac Coaling Station Cole Boehler Rides the Soo	SOLD OUT
3-4	John R. Davis Lumber Company - part one plans of 1884 Combination Baggage and Smoking Car	SOLD OUT
4-1	John R. Davis Lumber Company - part two Soo Line acquires M.N.&S. New intermodal center.	SOLD OUT
4-2	John R. Davis Lumber Company - part three Wisconsin & Northern-part two Greenwood Branch Abandoned	SOLD OUT
4-3	Motor Cars on the Soo/ John R. Davis Lumber Company - part four Plans of M-1 Motor Car.	SOLD OUT
4-4	Mixed Train Memories John R. Davis Lumber Company - part five Center Valley depot plans Lake Shore & Eastern	SOLD OUT
5-1	Plans of Caboose No. 99030 Je Me Souviens The West Lumber Company	SOLD OUT
5-2	Wisconsin and Northern Cuyuna Range Ore Operations Outside Braced 40' Boxcars	SOLD OUT
5-3	6th Annual Soo Weekend Registration Materials	SOLD OUT
5-4	The Brief, Busy Lines of Solana - White Pine M.S. Ste M.& A. First Annual Report Outside Braced 40' Boxcars - part two.	SOLD OUT
6-1	Wisconsin Central Suburban Service at Chicago - part one W.W. Rich's First Report Oak Park Depot Plans.	SOLD OUT
6-2	Wisconsin Central Suburban Service at Chicago - part two Glory Days of Trains Marshfield - On The Old Wisconsin Central.	SOLD OUT
6-3	The Railroads of Marquette - part one Heafford Junction Depot C.J.L.Meyer's 1885 Letter	SOLD OUT
6-4	The Railroads of Marquette - part two Soo Line standard 24X24 Deport Caboose 99116's Last Run.	SOLD OUT
7-1	The Railroads of Marquette - part three "Steam's Last Work Day" Radio Frequency Assignments Soo Line Corporation	SOLD OUT
7-2	The Railroads of Marquette - part four DSS&A Ore Cars North Dakota Memories South Shore Ore Dock No. 6	SOLD OUT
7-3	The Railroads of Marquette - part five Northbound on the Wisconsin Central North Dakota Memories	SOLD OUT
7-4	North Dakota Memories - part three Hewitt Depot Plans Wisconsin's Postcard King Diesel Photo Roster - part seven Soo Locks Boxcars.	SOLD OUT
8-1	Steam Locomotive Bells The Blueberry Line - part one Russell Snowplows Wheeling Depot Plans North Dakota Memories - part four.	SOLD OUT
8-2	The Blueberry Line - part two Wisconsin & Northern - part four North Dakota Memories - part five Diesel Photo Roster - part eight.	SOLD OUT
8-3	Schiller Park Yard Mellen depot, water tank, hotel, and enginehouse plans Sixth Subdivision.	SOLD OUT
8-4	The Blueberry Line-part three "Hey Kid, You Wanna' Go For a Ride?" Mellen Coal Dock Plans.	$4.00 Order Here
9-1	Requiem for a Depot - Cardigan Jct. Marengo Depot plans "The 17"-pt 1 Diesel Photo Roster-part 9 Duplainville Connection South Shore The Soo Line's Best Kept Secret-Mixed Train Passenger Service	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
9-2	Manitowoc's Railroad Shops Cedar Lake depot plans "The 17"-part 2 Diesel Photo Roster-part 10	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
9-3	Picnic Trains to Waverly Beach "The 17"-part three Penokee Railroad Company The Three Button Wonder.	$5.00 Order Here
9-4	North Dakota Memories-part six "The 17"-part four Rough Ride On A Hot Freight In The Dead of Night Riding Gas Electric M-1 Wisconsin Central's Diesel Loco Roster 10-11-1987	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
10-1	White Lake, Wisconsin - part one Dunbar's Depot "The 17" - part five.	SOLD OUT
10-2	White Lake, Wisconsin - part two "The 17" - part six.	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
10-3	The Wishek-Pollock Branch-part one Marquette's Coaling Facilities "The 17"-part seven.	$5.00 Order Here
10-4	The Wishek-Pollock Branch-part two Building on the Pollock Line Adventures of a Soo Brakeman A Terrible Wreck 2nd Class Depot plans "The 17"-part eight.	$5.00 Order Here
11-1	W.C. 1898 Combination Depot W.C. 2-story depot plans Stevens Point Water Tank "The 17"-part nine	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
11-2	W.C. 1898 Combination Depot - part two W.C. 1-story depot plans Soo Line Fan Trips Remembered North Dakota Memories - part seven "The 17"-part ten	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
11-3	Soo Line's "Rail Runner" Trains A Semi-Centennial (Almost) Stevens Point Terminal "The 17"-part eleven.	SOLD OUT
11-4	Rail Runner Reprise A Railroad Buff Remembers Wild Bob's Fast Ride Neenah's Elevated Crossing Tower.	$5.00 Order Here
12-1	MStP&P Ry Official Car No. 102 The Clark County Extension DSS&A Section House plans and models-St. Ignace Wisconsin Central 1899 one-stall enginehouse plans	$5.00 Order Here
12-2	The Clark County Extension-part two North Dakota Memories-part eight Soo 1917 Loyal depot plans.	$5.00 Order Here
12-3	The Clark Cty Ext-part 3 What's At The Saults Soo 1923 Greenwood depot plans.	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
12-4	Detroit, Mackinac, and Marquette Dunbar Revisited Soo Trains to Willard?	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
13-1	Detroit, Mackinac, and Marquette-part two North Fond du Lac in 1940 Soo Junction depot plans Algoma plans.	$5.00 Order Here
13-2	Narrow Gauge on the Soo Line Hilbert Junction Depot Washburn's Dream Pullman's and Private Sleeping Cars.	$5.00 Order Here
13-3	Oshkosh Bridge Wrecks Hamilton, Wisconsin An Engineer's Recollections	SOLD OUT
13-4	IXL and the Soo Blaney & Southern's Railcar Ye Ol' Pickle Factory	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
14-1	Action at Duplainville Train Orders and Hoops "Foreman" Derailred the Engine	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
14-2	A Little More IXL Marquette Hill	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
14-3	Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore Operations - part 1 Houghton Deport with plans	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
14-4	Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore Operations - part 2 Rail Battles of the Soo	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
15-1	Desert Storm - Desert Fix Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore Operations - part 3	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
15-2	Depots of Champion Copper Country Ltd. Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore Operations - part 4	SOLD OUT
15-3	The Art of Telegraphy News from the SOO-WC-MN&S.	$5.00 Order Here
15-4	My Ride on 261 Cuyuna Range Ore Operations -Final Chapter Unloading Coal -and- Everything Else	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
16-1	Cadott's Last Steam Passenger Local The Manistique & Lake Superior RR.	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
16-2	The DSS&A Railway Today Riding the Rails in Upper Michigan DSS&A Customer Flyers Remnants of the South Shore.	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
16-3	Soo Line Steam Funeral Trains Farewell to an Old Friend	$5.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
16-4	The Evolution of the Freight Car Fleet Maintenance-of-Way Equipment--Speeders.	$5.00 Order Here
17-1	Bucking Snow on the Soo	$6.00 3 Left Limited Quantity Order Here
17-2	Ashland, Wisconsin Modeling Soo Line FA-1s in HO Scale.	SOLD OUT
17-3	Lake Villa, Illinois.	$6.00 Order Here
17-4	The Restoration of FP7 No. 2500A -- (w/ Color Drawings) St. Paul Meat Traffic in the early '60s PS2CD 4427 Covered Hoppers (w/ Color Drawings)	$6.00 2 Left Limited Quantity Order Here
18-1	Ski trains of the Soo The Gogebic Range Part One: The early years Algoma Central joins the Wisconsin Central family.	$6.00 1 Left Limited Quantity Order Here
18-2	The Soo Line 5000s The Gogebic Range Part Two: 1897 to the mid 1920s	SOLD OUT
18-3	Soo's home-built RBL boxcars (with colored drawings) The Gogebic Range, Part Three: From the Depression to dieselization--the consolidation years	SOLD OUT
18-4	Reminiscing Rhinelander The Gogebic Range Part Four: Conclusion	SOLD OUT
19-1	Metra's North Central Service Soo Line's Milwaukee Connection Drake, North Dakota, part one.	SOLD OUT
19-2	Last Train to Fordville Soo's GP9 Locomotives Drake, North Dakota, part two.	$6.00 Order Here
19-3	Soo Line's Insulated DF boxcars Chippewa Falls and its Soo Line Heritage An Engineer's Memories of Chippewa Falls	SOLD OUT
19-4	Trip report: In search of the old Soo Wisconsin Central: What makes it tick? (Wisconsin Central anniversary issue) Reflections of a DSS&A Railroader.	$6.00 Order Here
20-1	SD40s Plummer Line remembered Pullman-Standard "Jumbo" covered hoppers.	$6.00 Order Here
20-2	SD40-2s Wisconsin Central's "P" (Portage) Line The many faces of Stevens Point, part one.	SOLD OUT
20-3	The many faces of Stevens Point, part two Maroon and gold passenger power in service once again (MTM's Soo Line GP9 559) A Soo Line telegrapher remembers Soo's "kitbashed" covered hoppers.	$6.00 Order Here
20-4	2719: Back in Steam Savoring the Soo: a Philadelphian travels the Soo Line 50 Years of Soo Line Covered Hoppers, part one Stevens Point, part three: WC in the Point.	$6.00 Order Here
21-1	50 years of Soo Line Covered Hoppers, part 2 Soo Line Operations in the Twin Ports at the end of the Steam Era Soo Line 950 at home in Ashland Soo Line 2nd Class Depot.	$6.00 Limited Quantity Order Here
21-2	Neenah Engine Facilities Off-Line Soo Line Soo Line's 7-Post Boxcars	$6.00 Order Here
21-3	New life for an old depot (The Marshfield, Wis., depot relocation project) Soo South Shore Saga Diesel Photo Roster Off-Line Soo Line	$6.00 Order Here
21-4	Building the Wisconsin Central (Menasha to Stevens Point) Restoration on a shoestring (the 321/X90) A Soo Engineer's album	$6.00 Order Here
22-1	James Sullivan's 1-1/2" scale live-steam 5000 Turn of the Century The LRC and the Soo Waupaca, Wis., the Wisconsin Central years Modeling ex-DSS&A 50-foot double-door boxcars	$6.00 Order Here
22-2	Soo Line baggage cars Soo Line's intermodal service, part 1: history The accident streak of 1947 50 years ago in the Soo-Liner, first installment Improving the SLHTS 7-post boxcar model	$6.00 Order Here
22-3	Soo Line's intermodal service, part 2: equipment The Winnipeger, part 1: history and operation The "Iron Horse Central" Railroad Museum	$6.00 Order Here
22-4	Soo Line's wide-vision cupola cabooses the Winnipeger, part 2 Railfanning the Soo in miniature	$6.00 Order Here
23-1	The survival of Soo 2-8-0 2425 Life along the tracks Gonvick, Minnesota Easy black ends for SLHTS boxcar models Soo F-units on the Escanaba & lake Superior Railroad	$6.00 Order Here
23-2	Rugby Junction The Dolly Sisters (Soo's RS-27s)	$6.00 Order Here
23-3	Excursion to the past Rugby Junction (part 2) Experiences of a new engineer on the Laker	$6.00 Order Here
23-4	Soo Line's U30C locomotives A Patriotic Locomotive The Laker Soo Line DSS&A Slanted-end 50-ton ore cars Modeling the slanted-end cars	SOLD OUT
24-1	Burlington, Wisconsin Soo Line 353 (restored 0-6-0) Saving the Frederic depot My first Soo Line Encounter: 1977 Modeling HO 2-8-0 (Bachman)	$6.00 Order Here
24-2	Soo Line-Built wood cabooses Soo Line caboose painting and lettering variations Soo Line in the Hawkeye state Background, assembly and detailing for the new Centralia Car Shops Soo Line wood caboose	$7.00 Order Here
24-3	The Armourdale Line DSS&A's Baldwin road switchers Orange and yellow boxcars	$7.00 Order Here
24-4	A history of the Portage Branch of the Wisconsin Central Soo Maroon .. and colorful related topics	$7.00 Order Here
25-1	Soo Line 550- and 2550-series Passenger GP9s Waupaca, Wis. The Soo Line years 1909-1987 Canadian Pacific Railway’s Emerson Subdivision. An in-Canada link to the Soo Line The freight car fleet Bethlehem HK ballast cars Series 60431-60629	$7.00 Order Here
25-2	A detail worth noting for Chippewa Falls Yard Recollections of a new operator’s harried first night shift Reflections on my railroad years Part one: Hiring on in 1945 to the winter of 1949-1950	$7.00 Order Here
25-3	The Port of Gladstone. Part one: the city is built by the Soo Line Here is your chance to own the original art featured on the Summer 2003 cover of "the SOO." The history, preservation and restoration of the Soo Line depot in Thief River Falls General Steel Castings bulkhead flatcars Series 5567–5573, 5911–5959	$7.00 Order Here
25-4	The Port of Gladstone. Part 2: Facilities GP30's on the Soo (w/ color drawings.) Modeling Soo Line passenger cars, part 2: underbody & final detailing.	$7.00 Order Here
26-1	Reflections on my RR years, part 3 Mid-Continent Railway Museum, Site of 2004 SLHTS Convention Northern Plains RR Hjelle Ice Company, Barrett, MN	$7.00 Order Here
26-2	Stock trip on the Wheatline Shipping livestock on the Soo Line SD60's - Soo Line's final new locomotives River View, Illinois Thrall bulkhead gondolas	$7.00 Order Here
26-3	Stray Cats of the Soo w/ GP15C and GP30C drawings South Shore Caboose Memories Kitbashing 1950's Piggyback Equipment Wild West and The Soo Soo Lines' Woodchip Cars	$7.00 Order Here
26-4	F-units revisted w/ F-units poster Soo Line Steam Excursions - The Crew's Perspective The Business Car "Minneapolis" Wheelmen, Wheeling, and the WC Russ Porter's Mellen Painting Stranded in New Town, North Dakota	$7.00 Order Here
27-1	The Wreck of the Velvet Special Riding the Rock Train Grainloading Boxcar Model New Editor Marks Up Funeral Train of Soo Engines Heads for "Graveyard"	$7.00 Order Here
27-2	Milk Cars & Milk Trains on the WC & Soo The Diesels that Did-It, Dieselization on the Soo and WC Steam Wreckers on the Soo, DSS&A Gondolas (Part 1)	$7.00 Order Here
27-3	The Manitowoc Terminal Co. Wrecking on the Soo-Pt 2 Working in Manitowoc The Soo Line saves the day Modeling the Soo - Fond du Lac to Stevens Point	$7.00 Order Here
27-4	The Chelsea-Rib Lake Branch (Part I) A Night to Remember: May 6, 1960 SD9 2381 Wrecking on the Soo (Part 3) The Freight Car Fleet (Soo Line Bulkhead Flatcars - Part 2)	$7.00 Order Here
28-1	The Chelsea-Rib Lake Branch-Part 2 Working the Byron Hill Helper Soo Line Centenial Towns Soo's First Red & White Boxcars Winter Wonder Soo Line Land	$8.00 Order Here
28-2	Tale of Two Penningtons-Early Division Terminals-Pt 1 2381 Curtain Call Close Call for a Soo Line Brakeman Occurance at Silver Lake Stars on the SOO-Conductor's Doodle on Freight Cars	$8.00 Order Here
28-3	Long Carreer of DSS&A RS-1 #101 Tale of Two Penningtons-Pt 2 Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer RR-Pt 1 Soo Line in the Twin Ports Gallery Prentice Depot Plans Hermansville MI	$8.00 Order Here
28-4	The Frost & Granger Inspired WC Depots-Pt 1 Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer RR-Pt 2 Medford WI	$8.00 Order Here
29-1	Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer RR-Pt 3 Saving the Waupaca Depot Modeler's Roundtable - Modeling the Waupaca Depot Snowplow Extra Gallery DSS&A Rotary 711 1905 Stanley Depot Drawings Minnesota Transfer RR	$8.00 Order Here
29-2	WC's Race Horses, K-20 Atlantics Gogebic Range Ore Trains DSS&A Motorcar R-1 Heavy Lift in Twin Ports Soo Heavy-Duty Flat 54011	$8.00 Order Here
29-3	WC in Eau Claire, the Unknown Branch Line Eau Claire Branch in Color, 1960-93 2719 Wakes Up Eau Claire Freight House & Depot Plans	$8.00 Order Here
29-4	Building the Soo Line's Chicago Freight House Soo Line's Chicago Tunnel RR Connection Phantom Steam on the Soo in 1956 25 yrs of SLHTS freight cars 1003 & 2719 All Color Steam Gallery	$8.00 Order Here
30-1	Enderlin, ND - Part One The Blizzard of 1923 A Fireman on the Copper Country Limited Homage to An Old Soldier - The Soo's GP9s All Color Photo Gallery	$8.00 Order Here
30-2	Enderlin, ND - Part Two The Soo Line Standard Two-Story Section House Archives Adventures: The Long and Winding Road to the SLHTS Archives The Archives, Research and You All-Color North Dakota Gallery Special Archives Gallery Modeler's Roundtable - Using the Archives for Modeling	$8.00 Order Here
30-3	Enderlin, ND - Part Three Great Waukesha Shops Conductor Eiteuner Rides Again The Waukesha Local Vs April Blizzard Photo Essay on Waukesha Depot All Waukesha Photo Gallery Modeler's Roundtable - Modeling Soo Line Signals	$8.00 Order Here
30-4	Enderlin, ND - Part Four My First Trip on A Way Freight Baby It's Cold Outside! The S.S. Sainte Marie	$8.00 Order Here
31-1	Duluth's 10th Avenue West Freight House The Nekoosa Line - Part One Fast Times with the Canadian Pacific 2860 Enderlin, North Dakota - Part Four Winter On the Soo and Wisconsin Central Photo Gallery	$8.00 Order Here
31-2	The Nekoosa Line - Part Two The Last Run of the Copper Country Limited Take Me Out To The Ballgame... Modeler's Roundtable - How To Make a Replica Soo Line Station Sign All Soo Line Minnesota Photo Gallery	$8.00 Order Here
31-3	The Nekoosa Line - Part Three The 2719 Gets the Job Done Modeler's Roundtable - Modeling the Soo Line in O Scale Photo Gallery - Smoke and Cinders on the North Shore	$8.00 Order Here
31-4	The Nekoosa Line - Part Four Saving the Stone Lake Depot Soo Mixed Daily* or, The Adventures of a Geep in Disguise	$8.00 Order Here
32-1	The Nekoosa Line - Part Five Junior Fire Chiefs On the Soo The 2714 Goes Behind the Fence Caboose for Stone Lake Secondhand Hacks for the South Shore Photo Gallery - Everyman's Geep?	$9.00 Order Here
32-2	The Nekoosa Line - Part Six What's Yellow, Green and Red and Looks GREAT ALL over? A New Home for a Soo Consolidation 50 Years Ago In The Soo-Liner The Evening Train At Park Falls	$9.00 Order Here
32-3	The Nekoosa Line - Part Seven Along the Soo Line - Colgate, Wisconsin Soo Line Proto 48 Modeling Photo Gallery - Soo Line SD60s: Mainline Might	$9.00 Order Here
32-4	Wood Rafting Into Ashland - Part One The $12.02 Caboose Trip When Hollywood Came to Mellen Photo Gallery - Soo Line SD60s: Mainline Might Part Two	$9.00 Order Here
Winter 201133-1	Wood Rafting Into Ashland - Part Two Cornfield Meet At Sheridan Vistors to the Soo Photo Essay - The Soo I Know Railroading Into White Pine 50 Years Ago in The Soo-Liner	$9.00 Included in 2011 Membership
Spring 201133-2	The Deppts of L'Anse, Michigan - Part One A Bad Day At Allenton My Dad the Section Foreman Photo Essay - Soo Steam in the 1950s 50 Years Ago in The Soo-Liner	$9.00 Included in 2011 Membership
Summer 201133-3	To Be Announced After Mailing	$9.00 Included in 2011 Membership
Fall 201133-4	To Be Announced After Mailing	$9.00 Included in 2011 Membership

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