As part of the Hamburg, Michigan Family Fun Fest summer festival, the Steam Railroading Institute in cooperation with the Great Lakes Central offered "push-pull" steam train rides during... (more)

A very unusual sighting on the GLC, a pair of GP38-2's with the lead unit running long hood forward leads the OSTN south out of Durand on a wonderful spring day.

The GLC ONTN enters the small village of Pompeii, MI. as it passes through a brief snow squall with a CSX grain train loaded at the Middleton grain complex. This train will eventually reach CSX vi... (more)

POOF!! Bustin' drifts, Great Lakes Central style.

A pair of GLC GP38-2's sit in the yard in Durand charging the train line of a cut of grain cars that HESR brought in for them to take south.

Not quite full peak, but near peak colors line the tracks just to the north of Oak Grove, MI. as the GLC OSTN races south with a long mixed freight destined for Osmer, MI.

Battling 25 sand loads and a steady grade, the GLC CSTN trudges along at a hefty 20 mph as it heads back to Selma Yard in Cadillac, MI. to make some switch moves and take the sand to Clare, MI. fo... (more)

The GLC CSTN approaches Mitchell St. as it passes the depot in Cadillac with 25 sand loads destined for Clare, MI. The depot is currently undergoing construction inside to be converted to a cafe t... (more)

The GLC CSTN returns to Selma Yard with 25 sand loads from Wexford Sand Co. The train would shift the sand loads in Selma Yard before heading south to Clare to drop them for the ONTN to take south... (more)

The GLC CSTN pulls its loads out of the load track at Wexford Sand Co. after it dropped its empties also on the load track. Wexford Sand Co. is one of the highest volume customers on the GLC syste... (more)

The GLC CSTN approaches one of the many rural crossings in the area that the line cuts through. The train has started to feel the first effects of the line, which features many grades, including t... (more)

The GLC CSTN fights the vicious grades between Boon, MI and Wexford Sand as it returns to Cadillac, MI with 25 loads. Track speed through this part of the line is 40 mph, however, most trains goin... (more)

The GLC CSTN works in the yard at Clare spotting empty plastic hoppers on the middle track for the ONTN to take south to Owosso. Taken from public property.

Change of plans! The 765 broke down on the wye in cadillac so GLC 398 is called in to return the train to Ithaca.