Z127 passes the old signals that used to guard the north siding switch for Blackmar but now is just another signal along the line, the siding was torn out a few years ago.

Z127 leans into the curve as it slows for a 10mph slow order a couple blocks behind me.

1179 and a SD40-2 build the southbound Z127 at the south end of Saginaw yard and will soon depart for Flint.

Lake State Z126 is approaching Tuscola Road in Bay City with northbound cars out of Saginaw Yard.

Ex. CN3577 built 1976. Bill Clynes photo.

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One of the new Lake State slug sets works hard up the grade south out of Alpena with a hefty 57 car train 326.

LSRC Z126 is approaching Fremont Street in Bay City as they head for Saginaw.

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One of Lake State (and it is Lake State, not "Lake States") Railway's new road slug sets leads a heavy 326 south out of Alpena.

Lake State Railway train 325, the Alpena yard job, turns their engine on the Rogers City wye. At left is one of the old WWII troop sleeper cars the D&M converted into cabooses.

LSRC 805, a former Rocky Mountaineer engine of the same number, leads train 326 out of Alpena, MI at Grant Street on a warm summer evening.

Lake State Railway GP40M-3 4303 leads slug 303 and the 57 cars of southbound train 326 down 10th Avenue, crossing US 23. Alpena, MI.

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The LSRC Z126 job passes the Saginaw Yard offices with a veteran unit leading.