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Available back issues:

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

Price

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Vol.-No.

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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.

$4.00

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

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1-3

"the Manitowoc Line" - part one, with fold-out panorama of downtown Manitowoc photographed in 1898/ Diesel Photo Roster - part one.

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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.

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2-1

"the Manitowoc Line" - part three,with maps and plans of Hilbert Junction Depot/Fond du Lac Shops/Diesel Photo Roster - part three.

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2-2

GP7 diesel plans in color/HO gauge diesel modeling article/Diesel Photo Roster-part 4

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2-3

Finney's RR-the M.&L.W./ S. Oshkosh enginehouse & depot plans/ Diesel Photo Roster-part 5

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2-4

 

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3-1

 

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3-2

 

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3-3

Duluth - Superior/ Fond du Lac Coaling Station/ Cole Boehler Rides the Soo

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3-4

John R. Davis Lumber Company - part one/ plans of 1884 Combination Baggage and Smoking Car

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4-1

John R. Davis Lumber Company - part two/Soo Line acquires M.N.&S./New intermodal center.

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4-2

 

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4-3

Motor Cars on the Soo/ John R. Davis Lumber Company - part four/Plans of M-1 Motor Car.

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4-4

Mixed Train Memories/ John R. Davis Lumber Company - part five/Center Valley depot plans.

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5-1

 

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5-2

 

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5-3

 

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5-4

The Brief, Busy Lines of Solana - White Pine/M.S. Ste M.& A. First Annual Report/Outside Braced 40' Boxcars - part two.

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6-1

Wisconsin Central Suburban Service at Chicago - part one/W.W. Rich's First Report/ Oak Park Depot Plans.

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6-2

Wisconsin Central Suburban Service at Chicago - part two/Glory Days of Trains/Marshfield - On The Old Wisconsin Central.

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6-3

The Railroads of Marquette - part one/Heafford Junction Depot/C.J.L.Meyer's 1885 Letter

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6-4

The Railroads of Marquette - part two/Soo Line standard 24X24 Deport/Caboose 99116's Last Run.

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7-1

 

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7-2

The Railroads of Marquette - part four/DSS&A Ore Cars/ North Dakota Memories/South Shore Ore Dock No. 6

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7-3

 

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7-4

North Dakota Memories - part three/Hewitt Depot Plans/Wisconsin's Postcard King/Diesel Photo Roster - part seven/Soo Locks Boxcars.

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8-1

Steam Locomotive Bells/The Blueberry Line - part one/Russell Snowplows/Wheeling Depot Plans/North Dakota Memories - part four.

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8-2

The Blueberry Line - part two/Wisconsin & Northern - part four/North Dakota Memories - part five/Diesel Photo Roster - part eight.

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8-3

Schiller Park Yard/Mellen depot, water tank, hotel, and enginehouse plans/Sixth Subdivision.

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8-4

The Blueberry Line-part three/"Hey Kid, You Wanna' Go For a Ride?"/Mellen Coal Dock Plans.

$4.00

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

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9-2

Manitowoc's Railroad Shops/Cedar Lake depot plans/"The 17"-part 2/Diesel Photo Roster-part 10

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9-3

Picnic Trains to Waverly Beach/"The 17"-part three/Penokee Railroad Company/The Three Button Wonder.

$5.00

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

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10-1

White Lake, Wisconsin - part one/Dunbar's Depot/"The 17" - part five.

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10-2

White Lake, Wisconsin - part two/"The 17" - part six.

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10-3

The Wishek-Pollock Branch-part one/Marquette's Coaling Facilities/"The 17"-part seven.

$5.00

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

11-1

W.C. 1898 Combination Depot/W.C. 2-story depot plans/Stevens Point Water Tank/"The 17"-part nine

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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

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11-3

Soo Line's "Rail Runner" Trains/A Semi-Centennial (Almost)/Stevens Point Terminal/ "The 17"-part eleven.(Quantity Limited!!!)

$4.00

11-4

Rail Runner Reprise/A Railroad Buff Remembers/Wild Bob's Fast Ride/Neenah's Elevated Crossing Tower.

$5.00

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

12-2

The Clark County Extension-part two/North Dakota Memories-part eight/Soo 1917 Loyal depot plans.

$5.00

12-3

The Clark Cty Ext-part 3/What's At The Saults/Soo 1923 Greenwood depot plans.

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12-4

Detroit, Mackinac, and Marquette/Dunbar Revisited/Soo Trains to Willard?

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13-1

Detroit, Mackinac, and Marquette-part two/North Fond du Lac in 1940/Soo Junction depot plans/Algoma plans.

$5.00

13-2

Narrow Gauge on the Soo Line/Hilbert Junction Depot/Washburn's Dream/Pullman's and Private Sleeping Cars.

$5.00

13-3

Oshkosh Bridge Wrecks/Hamilton, Wisconsin/An Engineer's Recollections

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13-4

IXL and the Soo/Blaney & Southern's Railcar/ Ye Ol' Pickle Factory

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14-1

Action at Duplainville/Train Orders and Hoops/"Foreman" Derailred the Engine

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14-2

A Little More IXL/ Marquette Hill

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14-3

Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore Operations/ Houghton Deport with plans

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14-4

Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore Operations -part 2/Rail Battles of the Soo

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15-1

Desert Storm-Desert Fix/Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore Operations-part 3

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15-2

Depots of Champion/ Copper Country Ltd./Soo Line's Cuyuna Range Ore Operations - part 4

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15-3

The Art of Telegraphy/News from the SOO-WC-MN&S.

$5.00

15-4

My Ride on 261/Cuyuna Range Ore Operations -Final Chapter/Unloading Coal

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16-1

Cadott's Last Steam Passenger Local/The Manistique & Lake Superior RR.

$5.00

16-2

 

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16-3

Soo Line Steam Funeral Trains/Farewell to an Old Friend

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16-4

The Evolution of the Freight Car Fleet/Maintenance-of-Way Equipment--Speeders.

$5.00

17-1

Bucking Snow on the Soo

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17-2

Ashland, Wisconsin/ Modeling Soo Line FA-1s in HO Scale.

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17-3

Lake Villa, Illinois.

$6.00

17-4

The Restoration of FP7 No. 2500A/Color Dwgs, St. Paul Meat Traffic in the early '60s, PS2CD 4427 Covered
Hoppers (w/ colored dwgs)

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18-1

Ski trains of the Soo/ The Gogebic Range Part One: The early years/ Algoma Central joins the Wisconsin Central family.

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18-2

The Soo Line 5000s/The Gogebic Range Part Two: 1897 to the mid 1920s

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18-3

Soo's home-built RBL boxcars (with colored drawings)/The Gogebic Range, Part Three: From the Depression to dieselization--the consolidation years

$6.00

18-4

 

Reminiscing Rhinelander/The Gogebic Range Part Four: Conclusion

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19-1

Metra's North Central Service/Soo Line's Milwaukee Connection/Drake, North Dakota, part one.

$6.00

19-2

Last Train to Fordville/Soo's GP9 Locomotives/Drake, North Dakota, part two.

$6.00

19-3

 

Soo Line's Insulated DF boxcars/Chippewa Falls and its Soo Line Heritage/An Engineer's Memories of Chippewa Falls

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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

20-1

SD40s/Plummer Line remembered/Pullman-Standard "Jumbo" covered hoppers.

$6.00

20-2

SD40-2s/Wisconsin Central's "P" (Portage) Line/The many faces of Stevens Point, part one.

$6.00

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

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

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.

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21-2

Neenah Engine Facilities/Off-Line Soo Line/Soo Line's 7-Post Boxcars

$6.00

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

21-4

Building the Wisconsin Central (Menasha to Stevens Point)/Restoration on a shoestring (the 321/X90)/A Soo Engineer's album

$6.00

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

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

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

22-4

Soo Line's wide-vision cupola cabooses/the Winnipeger, part 2/Railfanning the Soo in miniature

$6.00

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

23-2

Rugby Junction/The Dolly Sisters (Soo's RS-27s)

$6.00

23-3

Excursion to the past/Rugby Junction (part 2)/Experiences of a new engineer on the Laker

$6.00

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

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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

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

24-3

The Armourdale Line/DSS&A's Baldwin road switchers/Orange and yellow boxcars

$7.00

24-4

A history of the Portage Branch of the Wisconsin Central/Soo Maroon .. and colorful related topics

$7.00

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

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

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

25-4

The Port of Gladstone. Part 2: Facilities/GP30's on the Soo (w/ color dwgs.)/Modeling Soo Line passenger cars, part 2: underbody & final detailing.

$7.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28-4

The Frost & Granger Inspired WC Depots-Pt 1 / Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer RR-Pt 2 / Medford WI

$8.00

29-1

Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer RR-Pt 3 / Saving the Waupaca Depot / Modeling the Waupaca Depot / Snowplow Extra Gallery / Dss&A Rotary 711 / 1905 Stanley Depot Drawings / Minnesota Transfer RR

$8.00

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

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

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

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

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