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A telltale cloud of steam...
Title:  A telltale cloud of steam...
Description:  ...rises from the other end of the workshop at the Wisconsin Auto Museum. 1003 is almost ready to go and has been steamed up several times, but hjr volunteer crew is working feverishly to work out the post-rebuild mechanical gremlins before taking her for a spin on the main line.
Photo Date:  10/21/2012  Upload Date: 10/22/2012 12:38:31 AM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
The birthday girl is all dressed up and no place to go
Title:  The birthday girl is all dressed up and no place to go
Description:  SOO 1003 turned 100 years old as of March 2013. Mechanical gremlins left over from the overhaul prevented it from pulling two scheduled Santa Trains last November, and the locomotive has been silent since.
Photo Date:  3/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 3:20:02 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
Engineer's side cylinder and piston/valve rods
Title:  Engineer's side cylinder and piston/valve rods
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 3:28:52 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  97   Comments: 0
A full load of cocl
Title:  A full load of cocl
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 10:25:40 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
A peek into the engineer's side of the cab
Title:  A peek into the engineer's side of the cab
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 10:28:32 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
Fireman's side
Title:  Fireman's side
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 10:33:52 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
Reversing cylinder
Title:  Reversing cylinder
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 10:35:18 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  130   Comments: 0
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  SOO 1003 steams east into Hartford with a Santa Train.
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 11:57:06 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Robby Gragg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  204   Comments: 2
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  SOO 1003 steams east into Hartford with a Santa Train.
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 11:57:32 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Robby Gragg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  196   Comments: 2
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  SOO 1003 sits on display in Hartford.
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 11:58:04 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Robby Gragg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  237   Comments: 2
Backing down after swapping around the cabooses for the Santa Train
Title:  Backing down after swapping around the cabooses for the Santa Train
Description:  After a false start in 2012, 1003 is finally back on the rails, under steam and putting on a show!
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 3:43:01 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  134   Comments: 0
Highball!
Title:  Highball!
Description:  Starting up for the run into town to kick off Santa Train festivities.
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 3:51:46 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
Freak volcano eruption? Nah, it's just Soo Line 1003
Title:  Freak volcano eruption? Nah, it's just Soo Line 1003
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:02:41 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
Getting up to speed for the run into town with Santa
Title:  Getting up to speed for the run into town with Santa
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:05:16 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
Closer
Title:  Closer
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:07:40 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Closer yet
Title:  Closer yet
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:11:58 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
Simmering after arriving downtown
Title:  Simmering after arriving downtown
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:17:32 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  127   Comments: 0
Steaming is my business...and business is good!
Title:  Steaming is my business...and business is good!
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:21:59 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
Down low with the GoPro
Title:  Down low with the GoPro
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:35:17 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  117   Comments: 0
SOO 1003 front end with the GoPro
Title:  SOO 1003 front end with the GoPro
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 8:20:55 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
SOO 1003 engineer's side profile with the GoPro
Title:  SOO 1003 engineer's side profile with the GoPro
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 8:24:32 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Hey, the sun even came out!
Title:  Hey, the sun even came out!
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 8:28:53 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
She looks pretty good for 101!
Title:  She looks pretty good for 101!
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 8:31:56 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  124   Comments: 0
Shiny as the day she emerged from the ALCo Schenectady shops in 1913
Title:  Shiny as the day she emerged from the ALCo Schenectady shops in 1913
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 8:36:36 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
The 101-year-old Mike basks in the sunlight
Title:  The 101-year-old Mike basks in the sunlight
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 8:41:11 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  169   Comments: 1
This is the first outing for SLHA's Milwaukee Road reefer/tool car
Title:  This is the first outing for SLHA's Milwaukee Road reefer/tool car
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 11:22:24 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Amidst a cloud of steam
Title:  Amidst a cloud of steam
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 11:32:06 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  96   Comments: 0
SOO 1003 shoves the train west past her base of operations
Title:  SOO 1003 shoves the train west past her base of operations
Description:  Moments after this photo, I found myself caught in a rain of cinders that took months to wash out of my jacket!
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 11:40:30 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  97   Comments: 0
Switching local industries with SOO 1003?
Title:  Switching local industries with SOO 1003?
Description:  Not exactly, but they disappeared back into the industrial sidings on the west edge of Hartford for about half an hour, presumably to take on coal. The locomotive actually did make a short freight run out of Horicon on the next day, but I didn't get confirmation on it in time to make it up there.
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 11:47:02 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
Steaming back to the mainline
Title:  Steaming back to the mainline
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 11:51:36 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  135   Comments: 1
Dynamic duo
Title:  Dynamic duo
Description:  Engineer Ken is at the throttle and I believe that is WSOR Trainmaster Don Pingel swinging down to throw the switch.
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 11:56:26 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  112   Comments: 1
Easing into the curve on the siding
Title:  Easing into the curve on the siding
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 12:01:27 AM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  108   Comments: 1
In your face
Title:  In your face
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 12:05:41 AM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
Storming into town one more time
Title:  Storming into town one more time
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 12:17:33 AM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  208   Comments: 1
Whistle screaming for Grant Street
Title:  Whistle screaming for Grant Street
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/2014  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 12:20:29 AM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  236   Comments: 1
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  SOO 1003 steams into Hartford with the 2015 Santa Train.
Photo Date:  11/14/2015  Upload Date: 1/12/2016 11:12:18 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Robby Gragg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  149   Comments: 1
SOO 1003 simmers on the west side of town with the Santa Train
Title:  SOO 1003 simmers on the west side of town with the Santa Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/14/2015  Upload Date: 11/19/2015 1:29:06 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Steaming in with Santa
Title:  Steaming in with Santa
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/14/2015  Upload Date: 11/19/2015 1:30:40 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
SOO 1003 At Iron Ridge
Title:  SOO 1003 At Iron Ridge
Description:  Soo Line 1003 is seen rounding the curve on the east side of Iron Ridger
Photo Date:  10/22/2016  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 8:36:18 PM
Location:  Iron Ridge, WI
Author:  Alec Langkau
Categories:  Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  259   Comments: 2
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  A pleasant surprise on a fall Sunday morning was spotting this excursion on the former Milwaukee Road line connecting Cambria and Horicon. The train was pulling 11 freight cars and a caboose. From what I saw on social media on the internet later this day, the excursion was paid for by a private group with a main focus on photo opportunities and and recording the sound for a sound decoder company.
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 2:37:34 PM
Location:  Randolph, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  A look across a harvested cornfield just east of Randolph at a steam excursion, pulling only freight cars and a caboose. Information gathered via social media found this to be an excursion to record sound for a sound decoder and photo opportunities for those who helped cover the costs of the excursion. Some of us were just lucky enough to be driving around looking for trains on this day.
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 2:46:28 PM
Location:  Randolph, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  A steam excursion just east of Randolph approaches the County Highway C grade crossing.
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 2:52:22 PM
Location:  Randolph, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  SOO 1003, supposedly being sound recorded, leads an excursion of eleven freight cars and a caboose along former Milwaukee Road rails east of Randolph.
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 2:58:25 PM
Location:  Randolph, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  215   Comments: 1
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  SOO 1003 leads an eleven car and a caboose freight along former Milwaukeer Road (now WSOR) rails east of Randolph. The train will soon be crossing Beaver Dam Lake, which would have been a great spot to catch the train crossing the lake on a bridge if one had known ahead of time. One would need to know land owners or use a boat to get the shots, but they could have been awesome.
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 3:01:26 PM
Location:  Randolph, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  277   Comments: 0
SOO 1003
Title:  SOO 1003
Description:  SOO 1003 throws up a smoke screen for it's train as it heads east from Randolph towards Horicon along the WSOR (Milwaukee Road).
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 3:09:11 PM
Location:  Randolph, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  115   Comments: 1
A Steamy Side Shot
Title:  A Steamy Side Shot
Description:  Soo 1003 basking in the morning light with smoke pouring out.
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 8:49:34 PM
Location:  Randolph, WI
Author:  Alec Langkau
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  289   Comments: 1
Soo 1003 Photo Freight
Title:  Soo 1003 Photo Freight
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 9:01:51 PM
Location:  Fox Lake, WI
Author:  Alec Langkau
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
Soo 1003 Crossing The Rock River
Title:  Soo 1003 Crossing The Rock River
Description:  Soo Line 1003 crossing the rock river bridge at Horicon on its Return trip to Hartfoed.
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 8:53:15 PM
Location:  Horicon, WI
Author:  Alec Langkau
Categories:  Bridge,Steam
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  1315   Comments: 4
The Final Shot
Title:  The Final Shot
Description:  As the day comes to an end, Soo 1003 is rushing its way back to Hartford to take a rest for a few weeks.
Photo Date:  10/23/2016  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 9:04:55 PM
Location:  Iron Ridge, WI
Author:  Alec Langkau
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  287   Comments: 1
Builder plate - Soo 1003
Title:  Builder plate - Soo 1003
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/12/2016  Upload Date: 11/9/2017 1:43:07 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Edward Weisensel
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SOO 1003(2-8-2)
Views:  355   Comments: 0


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