Sunset encounter. A cold January sunset reflects off the door of a farmer's pick-up as he waits for the passage of an eastbound passenger train at rural crossing in Eastern Michigan.

A total eclipse! Facing a blinding January sun that's sinking rapidly toward the horizon, dozens of photographers stand in an open field just outside Owosso, Michigan squinting through thei... (more)

Anybody else smell smoke?? With PM 1225 and her train stopping briefly between run-bys to discharge a cab rider, I decide to take the opportunity to shoot a portrait of her in the golden, p... (more)

Good morning sunshine! After a day of dark, overcast conditions, our Lerro Productions Charter opens it's second day with breaking clouds and just a little bit of sun on the nose as the 400... (more)

Classic Carland. Folks who have spent any time in the America's agricultural mid-west are well aware of the significance of the local grain elevator. Grain elevators are storage and shipm... (more)

"STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN"

A man in a 51 Chevy heeds the warning at an unprotected crossing at King Road in rural Michigan.

2216 North Smith Road. In a scene that could easily have a time-stamp anytime during the last 80 years or so, a 400-ton, Pere Marquette Berk hauls a passenger train across the agricultural ... (more)

Running westbound on the Ann Arbor, a Pere Marquette troop train storms past a well photographed grain elevator in Carland, MI.

Westbound at King Road. Pere Marquette Locomotive #1225 charges through the unguarded crossing at King Road, perhaps 4 or 5 miles northwest of the farming community of Owosso, Michigan, wit... (more)

Pere Marquette No. 1225 leads an eastbound troop train over the Ann Arbor right of way crossing Baker Creek while en route to Owosso, MI.

Pere Marquette No. 1225 leads a westbound passenger train through rural Michigan captured here by King Road in Owosso, MI.

In what is thought to be one of the earliest known examples of a "zoom pan", Pere Marquette 2-8-4 No. 1225 is captured racing west with a passenger train through rural Michigan. Notes on print s... (more)

After a long cold day and night of photography Pere Marquette 1225 is posed on the Owosso Turntable before being tucked into the engine house for the night

Assisting with the war effort, a Pere Marquette Berkshire is pressed into service hauling a troop train, captured here in a Railroad: Pere Marquette
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-4
Location: Elsie, Michigan, USA
Locomotive #: PM 1225
Train ID: Lerro Charter
Photo Date: January 12, 2019

Early morning sunlight reflects of the plume of 1225. Pere Marquette #1225 was built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. This locomotive was the very same engine that the Polar Exp... (more)