SOO 1003 Revenue Freight Hauling 11/9/14 

Doing what she was built for and earning her keep. Truly wonderful!

Great video. Good to see steam working again.

Credit to the crew &maintenance. 👍🏻

It's always good to see steam hauling freight. Here in PA the folks at Strasbourg use their steamers for regular freight as well as the tourist trains.

just brilliant. really good camerawork of a very graceful unpretentious steamer doing what it does. inspiring

THIS WE NEED MORE OF!!!!!!!!!!!

Fantastic!! Great Video! Thank you.

Wow, great video! It really captures the essence of classic, steam era railroading.

Wow, there's even smoke coming out of the caboose's stack at the end. Very authentic. I am excited enough to wait even for the diesel freight that passes through or town (and stops to do some switching) every night around midnight, so I can well imagine what it was like for the people of days past to wait anxiously for the sound of the whistle and the chuff of the engine making the grade into town. Diesel is exciting enough, but I cry for the days of steam I never saw. On a related subject, it just occured to me that someday people may think it very quaint to look at old photographs of our primitive diesel-engined locomotives, and yearn for the days when freight cars were covered in graphitti: those good old days, before everything was electrified and automated and streamlined, when there wasn't 24/7 camera coverage and police presence over everything. Who knows; we shall see.

She is such a beautiful mikado and oh that 6 chime just fits her so well.

This needs to happen more often, preserved and operating steamers doing a bit of local hauling after pulling excursion passengers, IF the railroads letting the steamers do such local work also allow the steamers' owners to have the revenue from such local hauling jobs.

She probably hauled those case like they were nothing. A mikado built for this type of work.

Great video and catches

I love the fact all over the us almost every year a steamer is out there somewhere doing a short revenue service run. I think the railroads really like the idea of it. I really hope big boys next tour includes the dd40ax cross country. Maybe one day we will get lucky with a restored big blow

Coal fired excellent! I'd love to be the firemen for one of those trips.

Soo Lines #1003 looks like it has a big imaginary chin since the headlight is a bit raised up the center of the smokebox.

I've been imagining the Illinois Railway Museum putting their Decapod to work hauling freight on the adjacent main line. Trouble is, it's owned by UP, which might not be that friendly, and the main traffic on that line is from the Belvedere Chrysler plant, and we wouldn't want to deliver new cars with soot on them.

I worked for Soo Line RR at Shoreham Yards back in 1969.

This the first video I've seen that didn't have a diesel/electric behind the steamer.

I never knew about this engine! If they lowered the headlight down, it would be one of my favorite engines. Are there more like it?

Was there any advanced announcement of this run?

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Wow, five whole cars, huh? Granted, that's probably the weight of ten cars from the 1930s.

exatally how I like trains WITH a caboose & a FRED

I love the "SOOOOOOOOOO train." (You millenials wouldn't get that).