Class U-4-b #6407 waits for a train to pull.

With a man riding the tender, GTW U-1-c #6038 moves up to the turntable after coaling. 6038 was one of five in the class, sister 6039 went to Steamtown after retirement. For more on GTW steam, s... (more)

GTW U-1-c #6038 gets coaled at the terminal.

Another of Grand Trunk's Pacific K-4-a class engines shows up with a train. Sisters 5629 and 5631 had already been photographed that day.

CSX 2675 is heading across Livernois Avenue on Detroit's Westside as they head down the West Detroit Branch to switch local industries.

CSX 2675 is approaching West Warren Avenue in Detroit with cars for Coca-Cola and scrap gondolas they picked up earlier while working on the West Detroit Branch.

CSX 7 leads P910, The Barnum and Bailey Circus Train through the Delray section of Detroit as they depart from Motown after a weekend of shows at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

The 7085 is leading local LD07 back to Oakwood Yard as they pass through Delray Junction in Detroit.

CSX 7 leads P910, The Barnum and Bailey Circus Train through the Delray section of Detroit as they depart from Motown after a weekend of shows at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

Thousands of people flood the streets of Detroit to watch the final stretch of the 33rd annual Detroit Free Press Marathon as one of the "movers" passes above the finishing runners.

Just in from Muskegon, #56 eases in to Brush St. station. This was a daily train, departing Muskegon at 12:05pm and arriving Brush St. at 6pm.

NS Local LB12 is returning to Oakwood Yard as they pass through Delray Junction with coke hoppers off Zug Island.

Adrian and Blissfield 836 is working along the southern end of sister road Detroit Connecting. This was formally a Grand Trunk line that hosted passenger and commuter trains until the early 1980s... (more)

Railfanning, 1950's style. The Switchtender, dressed in his street shoes, tolerant but nonplussed by the photographer and his friend, the late Bill Rosenberg of Long Island City, N.Y., on the lef... (more)

With highstepping class K4a #5631 up front, an outbound commuter train prepares to depart the Motor City. More scenes from that day have been uploaded at Railroad: Grand Trunk Western
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Locomotive #: GTW 5631
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: August 13, 1956