Plowing steep snow, daily Detroit & Mackinac freight battles the north end of Vanderbilt Hill on the ex-NYC Mackinaw Division.

DL 2452 has just delivered freight cars from South Scranton to the Steamtown yard, in time to make the connection with road freight PT98.

Sitting in West Dispatch for maintanence, in Saginaw.

In the early days of the Pen Central the ALCO's still looked good and the Lowell freight still operated on the old New Haven line to Lowell

WB (I think) train is getting a push. This was puzzling to an old mountain boy. It looked pretty flat to me. I just thought PC was a bunch of wimps. The Alco is obviously ex-NH (no D/B).

The MA&N operated this plow train to clear the line to Lyons Falls the afternoon after the Utica NY area received 3 feet of snow in a single day. Plow is borrowed Conrail single track Russell plow... (more)

LSRC 281 and a Jordan Spreader (both formerly Detroit and Mackinac) pass through National City.

LSRC 281 and a Jordan Spreader plow south through downtown East Tawas on a 20 degree afternoon.

LSRC 281 and a Jordan Spreader plow south through Alpena Mechanical issues halted the plowing just moments later and the plow returned to the yard for repairs.

LSRC 281 and a Jordan Spreader prepare to depart Alpena and plow south towards Tawas. Mechanical issues halted the plowing just outside of the yard.

In the midst of switching cars around, LA&L 425 is seen against a wall of clouds.

LAL 425 follows LAL 420's lead, after switching Matthews and Fields Lumber

After waiting on the Jefferson Street bridge for an hour, LAL 425 crosses a relatively cold Genessee River on a COLD day!

DL 2452 shifts the propane plant at Tobyhanna before heading East to Pocono Summit. The former EL tower at Tobyhanna is visible on the left.