After a day long trip from Grand Rapids, Marquette Rail's Meteor rolls slowly through the ville of Parkdale, making its final approach to Manistee where it's journey will end. The low light of the... (more)
Got a heads up that Marquette Rail would be running on a Sunday, 6am call time out of Baldwin, MI. Had most of the day free to do whatever, so got up early, and headed north at 7:15am. Here's them... (more)
Couldn't believe the cop ticketed the little girl for standing on the tracks.... ok, maybe not. Marquette Rail's Santa Train stops in Grant for crowds to gather around Santa and his elves.
A derailment from a few nights before gets buried just a little bit deeper as the GMTX 2648 shoves through headed for Grand Rapids.
As I was getting into Newaygo, thought they'd easily be to the station stop already, but they held up as they were ahead of schedule..saw RP member Jim Thias waiting, so stopping by him I went :) ... (more)
The Plow Extra rumbles across the Muskegon River on it's way south toward Grand Rapids.
Headed for Sparta, Michigan and nearing the end of the line in Grand Rapids, The GMTX 2648 makes light work of the remaining snow.
The Plow Extra blasts through the south end of Grant burying a derailment of tank cars that had broke loose of their hand breaks and drifted to disaster a few days prior.
A title wave of snow crashes on road as the Marquette Rail Plow Extra blasts across M 37 just North of White Cloud.
GMTX 2635 pushes Marquette Rail's Russell snowplow through a beautiful winter scene in northern Michigan. The sign on the tree was obeyed. :-)
GMTX 2635 looks right at home in this winter wonderland as it takes a break before pushing the Russell plow onward toward Baldwin, MI.
Fellow RP contributor Aaron Schlegel stands atop our chase vehicle to get a higher perspective of Marquette Rail's first plow run of the year.
The crew of the plow gets a short break while stopping in White Cloud for some windshield washer fluid.
The Marquette Rail plow extra makes some more work for the Kent County Road Commission plows as it clears the Sparta Ave. crossing.
The Marquette Rail plow extra busts through the State St. crossing in Grant and throws snow everywhere.
