Though it may be beat up from many years of dedicated service, Great Lakes Central plow 4502 rests just outside the Cadillac engine terminal before the morning call of the CNTN. Still sporting TSB... (more)

Battling 25 sand loads and a steady grade, the GLC CSTN trudges along at a hefty 20 mph as it heads back to Selma Yard in Cadillac, MI. to make some switch moves and take the sand to Clare, MI. fo... (more)

A unique visitor was in the Great Lakes Central ONTN consist today as HESR 8804, still in the full paint scheme of its previous owner, Central Michigan Railway, is deadheaded back to the yard as t... (more)

With the days getting shorter, it is getting harder and harder to catch the night crews in the daylight, however, an early call time and clear skies provided me some fortune as the GLC OSTN approa... (more)

The GLC OSTN runs southbound with 20 loads of grain from Henderson elevator. The train will stop at Cohoctah and pull some stored empty sand hoppers for CSX.

The GLC Middleton turn runs light northbound to pick up a string of loaded grain cars from the elevator against a beautiful backdrop of blazing fall color.

2:05 am, the GLC ONTN has returned to Owosso, but with no other tracks open in the yard for the locomotives to run around and get back to the terminal, the crews are forced to tie up the locomotiv... (more)

The GLC ONTN passes through the west end of Owosso as it moves out of town in a golden sunset with the first signs of fall poking through.

More than two months after the GLC ONTN put 13 loaded sand cars on their sides north of Owosso, a pair of GLC GP38-2's pull 3 partially wrecked hoppers back into Owosso and to the shop areas to be... (more)

GLC 397 pokes its nose out to the photographer from behind a centerbeam flat in San Yard. The centerbeam will be used as an idler car between the locomotives and a power transformer on a depressed... (more)

The GLC ONTN approaches Juddville Rd. with 40 cars. With the Owosso-to-Bannister rehab project kicking off, the train is forced under a speed restriction. Evidence of the need of rehab is evident ... (more)

The GLC CSTN approaches Mitchell St. as it passes the depot in Cadillac with 25 sand loads destined for Clare, MI. The depot is currently undergoing construction inside to be converted to a cafe t... (more)

The GLC CSTN races past South 23 Road with empty sand hoppers. Here, the train will begin its descent of Boon Hill, the steepest hill on the entire railroad. Trains often fly down the hill, having... (more)

The GLC CSTN returns to Selma Yard with 25 sand loads from Wexford Sand Co. The train would shift the sand loads in Selma Yard before heading south to Clare to drop them for the ONTN to take south... (more)

The GLC CNTN works in the early morning sun to build its train bound for Manton and Traverse City. The crews are using the wye to avoid tying up traffic on the street and to not have to throw anot... (more)