Listen...can you hear it? It's getting closer...... There's nothing like being at 7000 ft elevation in total darkness and silence and seeing and hearing a heavy freight grinding up ... (more)

Pushing its train to Auburn, 2012 catches a sliver of the setting sun before it disappears into Tunnel 15 under Sierra College Blvd. in Loomis.

Here we see Grand Elk Railroad's first attempt at passenger service running from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids. Ok, just kidding. :-) Actually, Grand Elk was transferring a couple of private passeng... (more)

This crewman strikes a "man-of-steel" pose as if to guard over the switch-repair work taking place. He stepped away a few seconds later when he realized the approaching Dash 8 and 100 empty coal ... (more)

When the private car Navy 118 isn't making its way around the country on the tail end of various Amtrak trains, its home is in Coopersville, MI. After coming into Grand Rapids on Amtrak's Pere Ma... (more)

It's a cool and frosty spring morning as Amtrak's Pere Marquette crosses the Kalamazoo River en route to Chicago.

GRE 3839 and MMRR 3836 are parked quietly at their line limit just north of CSX's Holland-to-West Olive branch. These two engines, looking very patriotic together, hadn't played out this scene in... (more)

CP's X500 heads out of Grand Rapids en route to Toronto. The snow packed on the nose of 8810 was picked up over 100 miles away near the border of Michigan and Indiana, where close to 2 feet of la... (more)

Approaching Tunnel 13, UP 7405 leads a trio of brand new ES44ACs and a single stack intermodal train up the grade and out of Coldstream Canyon.

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)

Y121 rumbles slowly across the historic Rabbit River trestle after its weekly run to the Hamilton Farm Bureau. This view is from the east side of the bridge, which has rarely been photographed. ... (more)

Fresh out of the GE plant in Erie, PA., are 988 and 987 sporting CSX's newest paint scheme. On Christmas Eve, the two units led a loaded coal train through west Michigan en route to the J.H. Camp... (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)

Smoke billows heavily out of 1225 as her speed is reduced heading into Alma, MI. Shadows from the early evening sun create the illusion of the power lines bending into the smoke.

After servicing King Milling and Michigan Wire in Lowell, #24 scoots along on a return trip to the yard in Grand Rapids with two empty grain hoppers and one empty scrap metal gondola.