With another successful Christmas train under it's belt the 2012 Christmas train has just pulled up to the shops to mark the end of a fun but wet day.

It's Alive!!! The 4 smokes up the shops for the first time in a couple years after having a bunch of work down to it including a new prime mover installed.

Four reflects in a nice sized pond after a day of rain. This was the first time the 4 had ran in a long time and it is only fit that a C&O engine is in the old C&O/PM roundhouse!

2005 pulls empty lime cars into Manistee on a nice November.

2005 switches cars in Manistee just before sunset.

GLLX 4433, one of two ex-GTW GP9's owned by Great Lakes Locomotive sits in the MQT shops in Manistee Michigan on a cold March night. 4433 is on lease to the MQT and usually works the MAC grain el... (more)

2005 sits out a quite night in Manistee yard waiting for the next day's local. The 2005 is one of 5 GP38-2's that were purchased with in the last year and half and was the first to get a new paint... (more)

Z 151 is minutes from stopping in the yard in Manistee, MI.

The Manistee Yard job heads to the Asphalt plant with its recently acquired GT GP9 (now GLLX)

Z151 slowly pulls out of the yard and approaches the swing bridge that connects East Lake to Lake Michigan.

Beautifully painted Marquette Rail 3001 passes the railroad's classy caboose while working the yard.

Is this the 50s, or 2009? The photographer is lucky enough to catch the beautiful Grand Trunk geep that the Marquette Rail is leasing on a beautiful October day.

GLLX 3001 framed by the U.S. 31 draw bridge.

Brand New Marquette Rail 3001 has rolled out of the shop and is prepared to make a southbound run from Manistee to Baldwin. After several years of leased locomotives bearing nothing other t... (more)