8148 leads its train out of Tunnel 1 as it descends Donner Pass on this beautiful summer evening.

8759 leads a train of mixed freight into the evening sun on its Toledo-to-Grand Rapids run.

6252 and 8869 grind hard as the pushers on this 130-car coal train as it crawls slowly up East Saugatuck Hill on a colorful fall afternoon. Vantage point courtesy of a 50 ft tall tree. :-)

The final train into Grand Rapids on Christmas Eve before the CSX line shut down finally continues on its journey the afternoon of the 26th. This is the first picture I've captured from a tree. ... (more)

Heading into the late evening April sunshine, CN 5602 leads a colorful consist out of the East Lansing sag. The head-on lighting creates an interesting pattern of shadows on the side of the train,... (more)

After a week of 70 degree temps, winter returned to Michigan bringing high winds and blowing snow. CSXT 2630 leads a local job through rural west Michigan down a scarcely traveled branch line. M... (more)

2520 pushes this short, 5-car ballast train down a local branch line while the worker in the center uses a wireless remote to control the flow of the ballast.

A sign warning of remote controlled operations guards the southwest entrance to CSX's Wyoming, MI., yard on a snowy February afternoon. The day featured blizzard conditions and "white outs," maki... (more)

2691 leads a local job for its weekly delivery to the Hamilton Farm Bureau, crawling slowly over the old trestle which has spanned the Rabbit River since the late 1800s.

9354 leads a train of empty coal cars west over the Grand River.

UP 8171 leads the assault of the east slope of Donner Pass through Hirschdale as the train continues its journey to Roseville.

Making its first daylight run to Grand Rapids after a Genesee & Wyoming repaint, MQT 3390 (formerly GLLX 3002) leads train Z151 along Penoyer Creek in Newaygo, MI. GR 3839 and MQT 3389 complete t... (more)

One of the last SD80MACs in Conrail paint is seen here arriving in Grand Rapids with a load of stone on a warm summer evening. Since this photo was taken, the locomotive has been repainted into C... (more)

The entire 130 car coal train is seen here rolling through this subtle sag on a wet and dreary spring day in west Michigan.

In the early 1900's, furniture factory buildings lined the Grand River in Grand Rapids, MI. A few have been renovated, a few have been demolished. One, still awaiting its fate, stands proudly ove... (more)