Hope the pick up will respect the stop sign and give way to the PM 1225 !!
PM 1225 is serviced in the Owosso shed.
During a beautiful summer day in 1941, PM 1225 overtakes a Ford T pick up at the King's Road crossing !!! In reality, we are in September 2008, but nothing has really changed here since that time.
PM 1225 produces some stupendous exhaust plumes, but the more subtle exhaust on this shot I think enhances the impression of a workaday freight train ambling through a peaceful farming landscape.
A Ford pick up is waiting at the crossing for PM 1225 to clear the way with its freight train.
Exhaust and mist intermingle as PM 1225 performs for the cameras during the Steam Loco Safari Tours charter.
Meeting between the PM 1225 and a Ford T pick up in the early morning fog at King Road
Something about this shot suggests we may be in farming country! PM 1225 performs one of its last runpasts of the day alongside Chipman Road.
Running alongside King Road.
A panned shot of 1225 at Baldwin Road during the SLST charter. I don't have the steady hand of a Mitch Goldman, so this was taken at a cowardly 1/60, though it still gives a nice blurring of the r... (more)
Pere Marquette 1225 looms out of the fog on the second day of the Steam Loco Safari Tours charter at Owosso.
picture says it all
During the annual i spent a good amount of time in the firebox removing the arch brick and power washing the inside. This shot is looking towards the front at the Cumbustion Chamber looking betwee... (more)
