A 12-year-old Thomas Edison, working as a news butcher, was thrown off a Grand Trunk train at this station in 1859, after setting a baggage car on fire. Henry Ford moved it to Greenfield Village ... (more)

No. 1 steams around the Greenfield Village loop with an afternoon train heading for the main station. I had planned to shoot the train in front of the cider mill (red building at right) but had t... (more)

No. 1 streaks through Walnut Grove in Greenfield Village, heading for Smith's Creek Station on the Henry Ford Museum's Weiser Railroad.

Although the Mason Bogie gets most of the attention, the Weiser Railroad at Greenfield Village has another operable steam locomotive. She's called the "Edison" and she's a 25-ton 4-4-0 American ... (more)

All aboard at Smith's Creek Depot! Weiser Railroad #1 is a replica Post-Civil War design American-style William Mason locomotive. It was built in 1932 at the Rouge Locomotive Shops in Detroit MI, ... (more)