Sparks fly as a CSX MOW crew member uses a grinder during rail repair. Waiting for clearance about 2 miles off in the distance is CP's X500 en route to Montreal.

#24 pulls out a cut of cars next to the former Grand Rapids Eastern engine house before heading out on its morning run.

EJ&E switcher #313 crosses Riley St. with a load of metal slab cars from the Mittal Steel factory.

The day is drawing to a close as 2578 leads a short cut of cars back to the yard from a local industry. Here, the train is crossing through an excavation company's property while be controlled wi... (more)

Marquette Rail's scheduled night train Z151 makes a rare daytime run from Walhalla to Grand Rapids. Is it just me, or does that shadow look like it's being cast from a steam locomotive?

The corn is growing, but not yet "knee high" in this rural West Michigan scene. Amtrak's Pere Marquette was running an hour earlier due to track maintenance, and here the 7:30 am sunlight glisten... (more)

Amtrak's Pere Marquette crosses the century-old Kalamazoo River trestle on its morning run to Chicago. The trestle was built in 1907 to replace a wooden one that was destroyed by a derailment. D... (more)

8717 leads a train of intermodal cars and mixed freight through the east end of CSX's Waverly yard.

After a full day of blue sky, a large storm cloud formed in the east. I drove around for about 30 minutes looking for a good angle to shoot the cloud over downtown Grand Rapids, but then I came a... (more)

Built in 1869, the Rabbit River trestle has seen countless freight and passenger trains pass over her. Today, the line, which ends about 1/4 mile south of the trestle, only sees traffic about onc... (more)

After a crew change, CP's X500 became D900 and continued on through rural West Michigan en route to Montreal.

6069 heads into the late afternoon sunshine with a load of empty coal hoppers en route to Wyoming.

#24 leads a train of covered hoppers underneath the historic arch bridge that supports College Ave. in Grand Rapids. Unfortunately, the bridge will be replaced in a year or two, and another part ... (more)

As the day comes to a close, former B&O caboose 904015 leads a reverse movement of empty scrap metal gondolas into the Louis Padnos Iron and Metal Company yard. After switching out the empties, t... (more)

Running an hour behind schedule, Amtrak's Wolverine 353 heads into the late afternoon sunshine after passing under Augusta's historic coaling tower.