Two clean ACes catch the final sunlight of the evening as they cross over the Kalamazoo River with 130 empty coal hoppers in tow.

BNSF 5776 & 5976 lead 130 empty coal hoppers down East Saugatuck Hill near New Richmond, MI., on a beautiful autumn morning.

620 tons of orange slice through a wintry scene along the Lake Michigan shoreline. The trio of BNSF locomotives is pulling 130 loaded coal hoppers to the J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in West ... (more)

8835 leads 130 empty coal hoppers out of the J.H. Campbell Generating Complex on a snowy day in west Michigan.

E949 rolls around the big curve in Sawyer on its journey out of Michigan and back to the Wyoming coal fields.

St. Joe's Amtrak station also doubles as a trackside pizza restaurant known as Silver Beach Pizza. As 6275 passes slowly by the depot, a couple leaves with a to-go box of SB's delicious pizza, som... (more)

The days are numbered for these classic signals that have proudly watched over this section of track since the days of steam. This location was originally called Helper due to the existence of a s... (more)

A railfan in a white Chevy pulls in to New Richmond Park just in time to get a front row seat for E949 heading west with a cut of empties. A frozen riverbank provided me a vantage point that woul... (more)

It's not often we see a matched pair of BNSF locomotives in this area. If we do, they are usually GEVOs or something older in the BNSF livery. So, catching these two clean ACes was a nice treat ... (more)

9593 dodges the late evening shadows on a warm July night as it leads an empty coal train down the grade into the Kalamazoo River valley. The empties are from the J.R. Campbell Generating Complex... (more)

A Toronto-bound Canadian Pacific train sits in the siding while an empty BNSF coal train continues on its journey back to Wyoming.

A bird's eye view sees an empty BNSF coal train cruising through an elevated, high speed curve on its long journey back to the Powder River Basin.

A duck's eye view shows 5764 leading an empty coal train across the century-old Kalamazoo River bridge. Built sometime in 1907, the bridge replaced an old wooden trestle that was destroyed by a d... (more)

It was a hot and sunny day as 6003 led a long string of empty coal cars past the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline. To contrast this shot, take a look at my winter view from that same perspective... (more)