The morning Wolverine races through steel mill country at track speed. Notice the three drawbridges on the horizon, two of which (I believe) are permanently drawn.

AMTK 29 showing some head end damage is paired up with AMTK 26 on 350 heading for Jackson.

Amtrak 350 is heading north past the American Axle plant located along Holbrook Street in Detroit.

350 with superliners headed up Amtrak 36 meets 351 and its sister engine 35 at NS Comstock.

The morning Wolverine heads by the Amtrak Locomotive Shops, who are hosting UP 1989 for a second morning. In an hour or two, UP will move the serviced locomotive south a mile to the Canal ... (more)

The outbound Wolverine arriving at the Hammond-Whiting Amtrak Station.

Train 350 passes the derailed Lake shore limited on the busy Chicago main line near Whiting, IN.

Eastbound 350 is departing the Ann Arbor station with unit 33 bringing up the markers as they head towards Detroit.

Eastbound 350 is minutes away from rolling to a stop in Ann Arbor as it cruises East along the Huron River. The three superliners have a Genesis engine on both ends today. Superliners in push-pu... (more)

A different sort of Obama train.

Amtrak departs Kalamazoo rolling westward past the campus of Western Michigan University. My old dorm room overlooked this trackage in the early '70s when I went to school here, during the rainbo... (more)

Amtrak blasts past the Jiffy Milling company in Chelsea, Michigan. This is where your corn muffins come from. Jiffy is probably one of the largest (and only) customers left on the NS Michigan Line... (more)

It’s the end of the line for Amtrak 350 as it pulls into its final stop at Pontiac with Cabbage 90218 out front.

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

In shiny new-looking paint, Amtrak NPCU 90218 leads the first Detroit/Pontiac-bound Amtrak of the day off the NS mainline and onto Amtrak territory.