A Richard Beal photo: BO Tower, controlling the diamond of the NYC-GTW-PRR in Kalamazoo looks a little nicer in this 1966 view. This tower is still active today, though slightly stripped down a... (more)

A Richard Beal photo: Kilgore Yard is the small GT pocket yard on the west side of Kalamazoo, they have a branch that runs from their main line at Pavilion, MI to Kalamazoo serving industries t... (more)

A Richard Beal photo: Loading at the depot, you can see the early piggybacks behind the E's

A Richard Beal photo: Looking west from US-131 (not the major highway it is now), a NYC passenger crosses 11th street. The farm is long gone and KL avenue in the background is now lined with st... (more)

The International Limited is out of Kalamazoo, passing the campus of WMU westbound.

A Richard Beal photo: Across from where Waldo Stadium is on the campus of Western Michigan University, a NYC MOW train is busy spreading and cleaning the ballast. This line is still active and ... (more)

With the tallest building in Kalamazoo as a backdrop, NS local rounds the connector track to the Michigan line at BO returning to Botsford Yard at the end of the day. NS just announced its intent... (more)

Almost halfway between Chicago and Detroit, this classic 1887 MC/NYC brick and red sandstone depot in the Romanesque style is one of the survivors from the golden age of rail travel in the U.S.

Late evening light is cast on lead engine 3045 as it pulls a train of mixed freight through Kalamazoo, MI, across Amtrak's Wolverine and Bluewater line. In the background is B.O. Tower, one of th... (more)

The International Limited with Superliner equipment slows for a stop at the Kzoo depot as it passes BO. To see this location from a different, contemporary prospective, see Jim Thias' more)

Michigan's last manned tower around 1 AM two years ago, the 3rd trick operator goes about her buisness waiting on the nightly NS Elkhart-Grand Rapids run.

CR 6163 and CN 5571 are preparing to leave Botsford Yard with a train bound for Grand Rapids.

A westbound Conrail train is making the turn south from the New York Central (Michigan Central) mainline, and picking up orders, on its way to Elkhart, Indiana.

A fairly new Turbo-Train is speeding out of Kalamazoo, Michigan, in July of 1977.

Amtrak Train #351, The Wolverine, Departs Kalamazoo, Michigan. This unit was the final Genisis to wear Amtrak's Phase III Paint.