CSXT 988 Leads a daily manifest Eastbound through farm country in East Saugatuck Michigan on its way to Grand Rapids , from Chicago Illinois

CSXT 5230 Leads a two unit manifest through rural farmland in East Saugatuck Michigan at sunrise. The Fog was just burning off in the fields surrounding. The green blooming of spring in full swing... (more)

CSXT 930 Leads two unit manifest crawling up East Saugatuck hill in East Saugatuck Michigan on its way from Chicago Illinois to Grand Rapids Michigan

BNSF 9271 (E80023) Leads West down and around the bend on East Saguatuck hill in East Saugutuck Michigan with 172 empty coal trains from West Olive Michigan on a snowy afternoon

CSXT 5410 (Q326) Leads a two unit manifest East through East Saugatuck Michigan on its way back to Grand Rapids in a blizzard. This is a daily train from Barr Yard to GR.

E80023 (BNSF 9271) Leader of a 4 unit (2 BNSF and 2 CSX) Empty coal train rolling down the hill in East Saugatuck Michigan on a very snowy Tuesday afternoon

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.