How many locomotives are still in SOO Line paint and Milwaukee Road paint? What ever happened to Milwaukee Road's F45's?
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How many locos still in MILW paint?
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Though I don`t know how many exactly,there are still enough Soo Line painted locos where it is not uncommon to see any on a CP or even a D&H train.I don`t know on the Milw. Road units,maybe a few GP38-2s from the Soo Line takeover of what 1985(?),but I imagine they have to be very scarce.
I know in Wisconsin there are plenty of Soo Line locos left, all shapes and sizes. Milwaukee has 3 units still running, I think they are all 38-2's, but I'm not positive on that!! 
ak-milw wrote:I know in Wisconsin there are plenty of Soo Line locos left, all shapes and sizes. Milwaukee has 3 units still running, I think they are all 38-2's, but I'm not positive on that!!They still have some Soo Line Painted Locomotive's in the Chicago Area still.
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Living here in Southeastern Minnesota, I sometimes go to Winona and LaCrosse, Wisconsin every once and a while and every now and again I catch glimpse of red and white (I've heard it described as a light grey...) SOO SD units (saw one last February, actually) and an elusive "bandit" GP unit (a GP-38, I believe) running on the CP tracks that parallel the Mississippi River. Been a while since I've seen them, so I don't remember unit numbers...
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Tadman wrote:Yeah Chicago is the place for Soo units, and the classic white/red too, not that crappy psuedo-CP all red of the early 90's. I see them all the time in Bensenville. I saw two SD60's while landing at midway a few days ago in the white/red look.I've got several photos of SOO GP40's I would like get some Candy Apple Reds.
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SSW9389 wrote:they had FP45's, and yes, they were retired before "the end"RdHseRat wrote:The F45's were already on the retired before the Soo acquired the MilwaukeeActually no they weren't as Milwaukee Road never had any F45s.
I see SOO units in both paint schemes in Terre Haute pretty often. I think I see more of the red and white ones. I haven't looked closely enough to keep track of whether I see the same units over and over again, which could be the case, since we're on an isolated bit of CP track that sees more local coal traffic than anything else. We also see CP units with two different crests (the pac-man-looking one and the big gold shield). I have seen one very dingy Milwaukee Road unit, but I didn't get a good look at it because it whistled for a crossing about 15 feet from us, scaring my 3-year-old into a panic.
There are about 10-20 "bandits" in MILW paint but SOO numbers and reporting marks on the side- they're all GP40s and MP15ACs.
Every SOO SD60 is still in its paint, that being 6000-6062 (the last 5 are SD60Ms)
A few 6600 series SOO units are still in their paint, but are slowly being repainted into CP colors. SOO 700 series SD40-2s are a much rarer breed- more quickly being scrapped or repainted (and most of them ARE already repainted)
Many SOO GP38-2s still around, but are also slowly being repainted into CP.
Every SOO SD60 is still in its paint, that being 6000-6062 (the last 5 are SD60Ms)
A few 6600 series SOO units are still in their paint, but are slowly being repainted into CP colors. SOO 700 series SD40-2s are a much rarer breed- more quickly being scrapped or repainted (and most of them ARE already repainted)
Many SOO GP38-2s still around, but are also slowly being repainted into CP.
AmtrakFan wrote:Some SD60's Not the Wide Cab Variety are left in Soo PaintI repeat what I said in the last post, ALL SOO SD60s are in their SOO paint!!!