The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit circus train pounds the diamonds in Carleton, Michigan, as it heads south to Florida.

Providence & Worcester train CT-1X rolls through Middlefield on a georgeous autumn morning.

An interesting safety sign adorns a storage cabinet at Marquette Rail's yard in Ludington.

Sister locomotives from Mid-Michigan and Grand Rapids Eastern sun themselves by the mud puddle in Muskegon's North Yard. These locomotives date from the RailTex era, way back when the railroad sti... (more)

Great Lakes Central's weekly Traverse City Turn is entering the yard at Cadillac, having completed it's run. Stored in the yard are several ex-CB&Q commuter cars. Great Lakes Central is eager to i... (more)

Brand New Marquette Rail 3001 has rolled out of the shop and is prepared to make a southbound run from Manistee to Baldwin. After several years of leased locomotives bearing nothing other t... (more)

The perils of winter railroading have visited Train 350 on its morning journey from Chicago.

Behind this sign sits one of the largest extant collections of Baldwin diesel locomotives.

Washington County Railroad 202 is in charge of a short southbound train in Thetford as fall color explodes from the hills.

DMIR 213 and two sisters climb Procter Hill with a loaded train of limestone. Even at this early date, DMIR's image was fading fast.

Having crossed the trestle in the foreground, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight climbs up the mountains outside San Luis Obispo.

Clouds skim past the moon as GTW 6325 is put to bed after an exciting performance at TrainFest 2004.

"Four to the joint." An engineer eases a string of covered hoppers down an industrial lead near Fostoria's Iron Triangle.

Foreign power rests inside Detroit Edison's generating station, staying close to the powder river coal these locomotives brought in the previous night.

A small bird has alighted atop a Union Switch and Signal tri-light signal, apparently not for the first time either. Unlike the photographer, the bird seemed disinterested in the constant shufflin... (more)