If you are going to chase the Lake State Job Z127, better bring your racing tires that day! These boys rolls down this ex-CSX trackage on the way back to Wixom. Here the job dips over the hills an... (more)

The Wixom to Flint turn local is passing the north end of Holly. The LSRC trains will hold back north of here if they do not have a signal across the CN Holly Sub, which is controlled by CN. Today... (more)

The afternoon job begins their task around the shops in Owosso. The crew will shove out to the yard south of town and somehow spend the rest of the evening switching. We gave up and went onward fo... (more)

The GLC crews spent most of the week switching cars for hours on end at Owosso before departing, which made for some missed opportunities on the chase to Ann Arbor. The job is seen here with 3 bea... (more)

The local out of Owosso bound for the Ann Arbor begins the grueling 4 hours task of switching out over 110 car outbound. This would prove to somewhat ruin the day for getting them to come back no... (more)

The GLC and CSX cross at a place called Ann Pere on the CSX side just east of Howell. This crossing was once between the Ann Arbor Railroad and the Pere Marquette. The southbound GLC freight head... (more)

The large barge "local" from Grand Rapids to Detroit rolls thru the west end of Lyons on the CSX Plymouth Sub. This train is rumbling along with 61x105-171 cars... 11412 tons and 9571 fe... (more)

The large barge "local" from Grand Rapids to Detroit rolls thru Howell on the CSX Plymouth Sub. This train is rumbling along with 61x105-171 cars... 11412 tons and 9571 feet.. This train... (more)

The large barge "local" from Grand Rapids to Detroit rolls thru the west end of Fowlerville on the CSX Plymouth Sub. This train is rumbling along with 61x105-171 cars... 11412 tons and 9... (more)

An empty ethanol train bound for Mona, IA, has a good rolls on them as they pass by the depot at Grafton on the CP Owatonna Sub. This small little town in northeast Iowa has always had so much to ... (more)

An empty ethanol train bound for Mona, IA, has a good rolls on them as they pass by the depot at Grafton on the CP Owatonna Sub. This small little town in northeast Iowa has always had so much to ... (more)

An Alma, WI, to Black Thunder Mine, WY, coal empty rolls south on the Marshall Sub. The train is working towards the next crew change point at Sioux City, IA. The train crosses the Redwood River c... (more)

An Alma, WI, to Black Thunder Mine, WY, coal empty rolls south on the Marshall Sub. The train is working towards the next crew change point at Sioux City, IA. The train crosses the Redwood River c... (more)

The Marshall Sub pass right thru the heart of Camden State Park. The park was established in 1935 and was build around the Redwood River which determined the placement of various functional areas ... (more)

A DP brings up the rear end of this Alma empty coal train as they work direction south. This is the Marshall Sub, a BNSF secondary mainline that twist and turn from Willmar, MN, to Sioux City, IA... (more)