Eastbound CSXT 596 Freight rolls through Michigan farmland on its way to Holland Michigan

Y121, the Holland, MI., local job, heads north (railroad east) back to CSX's Waverly Yard after switching at an East Saugatuck farmers co-op. Looming in the background sky are lake effect snow sto... (more)

Lots of heads-ups as this office car special was routed from Toledo through Grand Rapids to Chicago. Headed out on lunch break to nab them with Nevets and cnw8835 at 55th St south of Holland.

Canadian Pacific's X500 is met with a golden sunset as it rolls through rural west Michigan.

6252 and 8869 grind hard as the pushers on this 130-car coal train as it crawls slowly up East Saugatuck Hill on a colorful fall afternoon. Vantage point courtesy of a 50 ft tall tree. :-)

Amtrak's Phase I Heritage Unit leads the Pere Marquette past a farm on an early spring morning in "Pure Michigan."

Amtrak 28 leads a 6 car Pere Marquette across the farm landscape of Southwestern Michigan on a nice sunny May morning.

BNSF 6241 and 8972 lead a 65-car coal drag northbound through East Saugatuck en route for the J.R. Campbell Generating Complex in West Olive.

A typical summer morning scene in rural West Michigan.

A golden sunset casts light on Canadian Pacific's train X500 as it roars through rural West Michigan.

8803 and GCFX 3088 roll by a typical Michigan farm scene on a beautiful spring morning.

5646 and a partner help push 130 car loads of coal up the hill in East Saugatuck. Only about a half mile remains on this 4+ mile curving grade, and after their job is done, the pair will head lig... (more)

9372 leads a load of coal empties through the west Michigan countryside.

9466 brings up the rear of a loaded coal train as it climbs the hill out of the Kalamazoo River valley. The 130-car train is at a crawl as the head end is just reaching the crest of the hill whil... (more)

Amtrak's Pere Marquette speeds through the morning fog in rural west Michigan on its way to Chicago.