A Tribute to the Soo Line - FULL VIDEO (2000)

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This is C. Vision’s full video covering Soo Line locomotives leading trains in Minnesota across CP’s former SOO and Milwaukee Road mainlines. Various SOO locomotives are seen in service, including models SD40, SD40-2, SD60, SD60M, GP38-2, GP40, and MP15AC. At the time of production, most of the 700-series SD40s and SD40-2s were working their final miles for CP, with many removed from service and retired around the year 2000. We travel east from Glenwood, Minnesota, through the Twin Cities, to La Crescent, Minnesota. This takes us across CP’s Paynesville and River Subdivisions, along with a glimpse of the Merriam Park Subdivision and BNSF’s St. Paul Subdivision at Hoffman Avenue in St. Paul. We close out the show with a scene on CP’s former MN&S Savage Spur between Northfield and Lakeville, Minnesota. We hope you enjoy our coverage of this revered fallen flag railroad.
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@dkservice424 8 ай бұрын

I grew up in the mid 1970’s in river forest Illinois just west of Chicago. The soo line double track ran literally 25 / 30 feet to the right of the house. I was mesmerized watching them go right past my bedroom window every hour or so. I will never forget seeing unit 1776 decorated for the bicentennial with fresh paint around 1977. Have been a HO scale model railroader of the soo ever since. Great video. Brings back memories of simpler and better times.

@CVisionProductions1 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the nice comment. You must have seen a lot growing up outside of Chicago! And yes, we remember seeing photos of that 1776 unit. The SOO had a beautiful Bicentennial paint scheme. Looks like it was really SOO 727 in disguise. We appreciate you taking the time to watch the video.

@ShannonS-se4fc 2 ай бұрын

I know that there is a lot of people who have been voting for your rights and you should do that but don't vote for those who wants to take our rights a way yes I mean that because there is another war going on and pray that God will stop the war now and that we don't have to hear the tornado warning sirens turning in to the air aid siren again sincerely Shannon

@mikeashely8198 2 жыл бұрын

when I was 10 years old all the way up to 30 years old I had a crush on the soo line in the U P of Michigan that was 1960 to 1980

@TNS17 2 жыл бұрын

WHAT

@beeble2003 2 жыл бұрын

And then you realised that Sue Line wasn't a girl and you left the UP to live with the other UP in Sue City. Bad news, man. That's not a girl, either.

@danielneeley5480 2 жыл бұрын

Half of the horns on the locomotives are shot. The winters must've been really hard on those nathans/leslies.😣

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, winter and time....

@norfolkcountyrailfanningpr7000 2 жыл бұрын

Nice Soo line RR from late 1990s to early 2000s.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi3409 2 жыл бұрын

I always soo line it's awesome company

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi3409 2 жыл бұрын

@@CVisionProductions1 your welcome guys

@plisskenationbackfromthede3657 2 жыл бұрын

Always liked watching the soo line growing up. Wed go and see the old engine house in bensenville and cruise around the yards in franklin park. Was cool at 1st when cp took over, lots more different power to see, until all the soo locos were gone a few years later. I always liked those beat up paint-falling-off milwaukee rd units, they had alot of, lets say, character lol

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

I agree totally! It was a great railroad. Thank you!

@scottrobinson1112 2 жыл бұрын

Thank fully the coler mark cars are stil rolling. And seeing a MNS car in a blue moon is grate too.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Scott!

@kevinmills8437 2 жыл бұрын

Red and White Trains.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

That was the name of the game on the SOO!

@stuew6 2 жыл бұрын

I love CP Fallflag railroads and i still see Sd60m & Sd60 switching in Toronto CP McCowan Yard

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

It is nice that the 60's are still around. Although not painted SOO anymore.

@kristiecoyle8225 2 жыл бұрын

sweeeeeeeeet this is where I collect my hoard of agates!

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!!! Agates are fun to look for. Thanks for watching.

@alexschmollinger6576 2 жыл бұрын

I heard a Soo line SD60 with a P3 horn on a Video 📹 and the Soo line Got the Milwaukee Road in 1985 Rest in Peace Soo line

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Roger that, Alex. Thank you for the view and the comment!

@tombarnes7196 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding!

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@berkshiredave9766 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic....

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@mjrodriguez8670 2 жыл бұрын

I like the red and white colours of the SOO Line! These trains that went west from St. Paul left the US at Noyes, MN (to Winnipeg) and Portal, ND (to Western Canada, including Kicking Horse Pass and Rogers Pass).

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@bradhardy2629 2 жыл бұрын

I know , I was an Engineer out of St. Paul in the mid nineties . Stuck working the crappy Soo line jobs while they worked all the good Milwaukee Road jobs around the twin cities . The C.P. was the worst thing to happen to the Soo line / Milwaukee Road .

@haroldalexis4200 2 жыл бұрын

No doubt I love SOO LINE This is another beautiful train video. 🎥👋👋👋👋👋👍✅⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🔴⚪⚫🏀❤

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@douglasskaalrud6865 Жыл бұрын

Seems like I’ve spent half of my life railfanning the Paynesville sub! I grew up in Crystal, MN just outside of Minneapolis and the Soo went right through town and crossing the Great Northern in doing so.There’s a nice hill going up to New Hope from Crystal, then the line cuts across Plymouth and meets up with state highway 55 which parallels the Soo all the way to Glenwood and beyond. It’s a near-perfect railfanning road but it can be very hard to find locations with good lighting which they do a good job of here. This video shows trains tooling along at a good clip which only became common after CP took full control. Soo Line used minimum power for these mostly empty trains headed back to Canada and trains would struggle to make 30 mph. The line has a roller coaster profile chock full of curves. Even up to 1980 there were still a fair amount of elevators loading out country grain but now most of it is trucked to St. Paul for barge transit. Probably 90-95% of traffic moving over it today is bridge traffic-very little traffic originates on the Paynesville Sub.

@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story and for your insight on the line! It’s fascinating stuff.

@BNSF1458 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video C vision. Really hope I can turn railfanning into a career like this some day, so cool. I hope to see BNSF Hinckley Sub V2 uploaded eventually, the first one was super good, can't wait to see the second eventually.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Always keep your dreams alive!!!

@grahamsawyer831 2 жыл бұрын

some really excellent films, very good light, sound, landscape/sky - up there with the best of them for sure. lovely stuff.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Graham! I'm glad you enjoy them.

@dieseldave3879 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@shed66215 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful footage. Would like to have seen a couple of the new/rebuilt SD70ACu's of CP bearing the Soo red (with white lettering) and white body with red nose

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

That sure would have been nice. Even the Milwaukee Road would look neat too. Thank you for watching and commenting!

@GardenHermit 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video - many thanks for sharing it. I have a real 'soft spot' for the Soo😊

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video. We love the SOO as well.

@beeble2003 2 жыл бұрын

5:15 Headlights off, ditch lights off, but it's OK --there's a little beacon on the roof that flashes literally once every seven seconds. Man, things were different in the "good" old days.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Great observation. Those were the days. Thank you for watching.

@OldFart2023 3 ай бұрын

I noticed that too. Engr shut them off when they cleared the main and forgot to turn back on over the crossing. Do that now with all of CP's mis-management and they will try their best to make you collect your "can insurance!"

@trainsmachineryldegmtrains3509 2 жыл бұрын

Super rail movie! Awesome old images with trains! Good work! Mega Thumbs Up Greetings from Romania Andrew

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Andrew! I hope all is well in Romania. Greetings from Minnesota USA!!!

@kingoflovetrain6426 2 жыл бұрын

Soo Line is truly an awesome fallen flag railroad.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

It sure is!

@alexpaumen3937 Жыл бұрын

My grandfather once had a farm along the Paynesville Sub just outside of Maple Lake and he told me he thought that the trains were a nuisance (personally I would have thought the opposite) when he was driving up and down.

@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын

Well, we figure most of the general public feels that way. It makes sense, but it’s unfortunate. Thank you for the comment.

@donoghue964 2 жыл бұрын

Some real neat footage there and boy what a selection of horns!!! Thanks again folks.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome and thank you!!!

@Nicola636128 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video!

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@andymodem 14 күн бұрын

Excellent video! Grew up in Minnesota photographing and modeling the Soo Line in the 80s and 90s. Sure is nice seeing trains a reasonable length instead of the 2 mile long PSR monsters we have now.

@CVisionProductions1 13 күн бұрын

Thank you Andy! Glad you enjoyed it. Those were the best days on the railroad.

@joshuaslusser4824 Жыл бұрын

Bought this when it first came out in 2000 and it has been a favorite since. I could watch that 6613 West at Medina over and over again (and, in fact, I did, chased it from Paynesville West to Murray where he took siding until sunset).

@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being a C. Vision customer! The Paynesville Sub was always a good chase back in those days, especially with the neat old power that was running at the time. 6613 was an interesting locomotive. We always enjoyed seeing it. Thanks again!

@chevloncamaronzz7838 Жыл бұрын

for me the soo lines are the rarest trains since they are hardly mentioned

@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын

The SOO was a great railroad! Thank you for the comment.

@arthurschipper8906 Жыл бұрын

I was hoping for some narration, I always love a good history lesson. Other than that, first rate.

@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Arthur! The reason for the lack of narration is this video was a compilation of SOO scenes covering the same territory as two of our DVD/VHS releases. Basically, an extra video for SOO fans to go along with our Paynesville and River Subdivision videos. But, those two may end up on KZfaq at some point. Stay tuned!

@TNS17 2 жыл бұрын

What camera is used to make your current films

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Our current camera is a Panasonic AG-DVX200

@TNS17 2 жыл бұрын

@@CVisionProductions1 thank you

@CrazyKaboose 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! The scenery is great!

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@jalilmuhammad8270 Жыл бұрын

The Soo Line is now the legal United States alias of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын

That’s correct. The SOO is quite an important entity, even today.

@millennialtrainman3443 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, C Vision! I come from a family of multiple generations that worked for the Soo Line. That’s actually how my parents met as well. I was born in the late 80’s, after the MLWR takeover. I only wish I could have been around to see the Soo Line for what it truly was before the MLWR takeover.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing and your comments! Neat story.

@bradhardy2629 2 жыл бұрын

The Milwaukee Road was twice the Railroad in the old days . BN . Management infiltrated The Milwaukee and purposely made huge mistakes to drive it under . pacific coast container business was right around the corner and the B.N knew it . 80 years of excellent service and all the employees shot in the back by cooked books & poor poor BN management along with politics .

@walterlangston4484 Жыл бұрын

been seeing soo line cars on csx grain trains

@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын

It’s nice to see them when they pop up! They are neat cars with cool designs.

@bradhardy2629 2 жыл бұрын

The Milwaukee Road unit looks sooo much better then the soup line unit's.

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

They are both neat in their respective ways.

@bradhardy2629 2 жыл бұрын

@@CVisionProductions1 JUST YOUR OPINION I GUESS

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

I wasn’t disagreeing with you

@jwernhol 5 ай бұрын

Wouldn’t this technically be the Wisconsin Central? I’m seeing a lot of WC cars?

@CVisionProductions1 5 ай бұрын

These scenes were captured on Canadian Pacific’s US subsidiary, Soo Line. However, there was a fair bit of WC interchange traffic during this time. Thank you for watching the video.

@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb 2 жыл бұрын

So why did cp even buy soo ?

@CVisionProductions1 2 жыл бұрын

CP always had a stake in the SOO, even in the railroad’s earliest days. But to answer your question, it was done to ensure that CP would always have a competitive link into and through the United States.

@stevenr3169 Жыл бұрын

The Soo had actually been an operating subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific from 1888, and its primary US subsidiary, similar the Grand Trunk Western and Central Vermont being under CN control. The deregulatory environment of the late 20th Century allowed both CN and CP to absorb their subsidiaries.

@Chris-hz1fi Жыл бұрын

Was the soo at one time any part of the milwaukee road??

@CVisionProductions1 Жыл бұрын

The SOO purchased the Milwaukee Road in February of 1985.

@OldFart2023 3 ай бұрын

@@CVisionProductions1 Which in itself is a VERY interesting read!!

@OldFart2023 3 ай бұрын

The "map" in the beginning of the video is wrong. The line that heads west from Glenwood (Elbow Lake Sub) does not enter NE SD. IT crosses the Boi De Sioux River just east of Fairmount ND in SE ND. Some may consider this minor but right is right. Just my 2 cents. I soooooo loved the SD 40's. THEE BEST locomotive ever built. So versatile for OTR, yd switching, local jobs, snow plows, unloading ballast.....you get the picture. This was also such a good time to work for the $oo Line. IMO, things slowly declined under CP Mgmt. But, what the hell do I know. LOL

@CVisionProductions1 3 ай бұрын

You’re right. The map is a little off. It was the original map created 24 years ago for this program. And we’ll agree that the CP/SOO was a good railroad to work for in the 90s and early 2000s. Lots of changes since then… Thank you for watching.