Firefighters, railroad workers, police, and a couple photographers at the site of a head on collision between Soo trains 909-910 about 1 mile east of Gilchrist. 910 was supposed to take siding at ... (more)
Soo 704,705 pull a short #909 into the siding at Gilchrist to wait out a meet with #910. Back to back fairly clean, consecutively numbered GP30's were probably not a common sight anywhere in 1985.
WC 6616,585 are on #134 waiting to meet #35 at Gilchrist. At the time WC was operating 4 freights a day over the Manistque Sub.
Soo 6600,413 lead a Extra west past Gilchrist with 31 cars on a cold Feb. day. Soo 6600 was destroyed in a head on collision about 1 mile east of the location on July 12,1982.