Soo Line 1003

Soo Line 1003 is a steam locomotive of the L-1 class, a 2-8-2 Mikado type, built by the American Locomotive Company in March 1913 for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, better known as the Soo Line. It worked mostly freight trains until 1954, when it went into standby service at the roundhouse in Gladstone, Michigan, and the railroad retired it from revenue service in August 1959 and donated it to the city of Superior, Wisconsin for public display. Preservationists bought it in 1993 and returned it to running condition in October 1996. Since then it has pulled excursion and charter trains on railroads of the Upper Midwest, passed a further boiler overhaul in 2012, and is kept running by volunteers of the Steam Locomotive Heritage Association.