Unseasonably warm temperatures that Friday morning created a fog bank over Southeast Michigan. DT&I 204 pulls a string of cars from Flat Rock to Ford's River Rouge Plant in Dearborn. Concrete arch... (more)

A couple of DT&I GP's sit around the long gone GT's Elsdon yard in Chicago.

Westbound Detroit, Toledo & Ironton freight train passing the Michigan Central station in downtown Detroit, Michigan, on September 5, 1976. The station was built in 1912-13 and remained in use unt... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

The Napoleon local works the soup plant prior to heading to Malinta and the mainline. In 1983 the Napoleon branch ended a few hundred yards behind 222, but this had once been DT&I's mainline.

Northbound RB-2 had just pulled around the loop leaving Southern's Gest St Yard. Shortly it will be on the Riverfront Running Track passing between downton and the River.

Pulling onto the Southern's enginhouse lead after arriving via the Riverfront Running track. Once it clears the 'loop' it will shove the train into the Southern's Gest St yard.

DT&I GP38AC 215 at Jackson, OH // June 1975

Train DC-8 is kicking up some serious dust as it approaches Diann tower at 50+ MPH! The head brakeman, seeing a red order board and sporting a sturdy glove, has his arm hanging out of the cab wind... (more)

On a hot and sultry May afternoon, DT&I train DJ-1 with GP40-2s 406 and 415 has slowed down to a crawl and will stop briefly to work the Penn Central interchange at Quincy, Ohio. Morgan tower guar... (more)

Diann tower operator Lowell Addy watches as the flagman reaches way out to grab his running orders off the "iron man" at 50 MPH. It might appear the flagman missed his mark, but rest assured, he s... (more)

A restored DT&I caboose sits near the Ironton Flood wall on the banks of the Ohio River.

DT&I 406 is leading this local with 4 cars and GTW caboose 79170 by Tappen which is just west of the GTW Port Huron yard. Tappen is the junction of the Mount Clemens Sub which comes up from Milwau... (more)

This set of DT&I 217 - GTW 4431 would later be spliced by the hostler with Milwaukee Road GP40 #2032 and become the power for train 387 later in the day.