A Detroit Edison SD40 leads a pair of GE units on an empty coal train through Walbridge. Tom Bowers photo
Tom Bowers photo.
An empty Detroit Edison unit train rolls south on the Monongahela Railway. The rusted tipple is part of the idled Republic Steel mine operations in Fredericktown.
Detroit Edison once employed its own fleet of SD40s and U30Cs to move unit trains of coal from West Virginia to the power plants in southern Michigan. This train awaits a new crew and an appointm... (more)