Light snow falls as #24 heads to a local lumber yard to retrieve a single car for their final job of the day. This single-lane overpass is one of only two in the area that still exist from the ol... (more)
Several days of snow and plowing have created large piles of the white stuff on this infrequently traveled line. However, the greater problem was hard packed snow and ice in between the rails and... (more)
A typical cold winter day in Michigan is seen here as #24 works loaded and empty grain hoppers in and out of King Milling. The milling company usually receives 20-30 cars a week and is the MMRR's... (more)
#24 pulls a load of covered hoppers across the Grand River with the Grand Rapids skyline in the background. A 20-story building now stands where the crane is.
MMRR 24 pulls a load of coiled steel and grain hoppers to the small town of Lowell, just east of Grand Rapids.
One cow found me more interesting than the passing train. She must not be a railfan.
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)
#24 pulls out a cut of cars next to the former Grand Rapids Eastern engine house before heading out on its morning run.
#24 leads a train of covered hoppers underneath the historic arch bridge that supports College Ave. in Grand Rapids. Unfortunately, the bridge will be replaced in a year or two, and another part ... (more)
#24 is near the east end of MMRR's west Michigan line to deliver two tank cars to their lone customer in Ionia, MI. It's only a matter of time before this scene of a train in front of Ionia's dep... (more)
MMRR engine #24 leads a short train of metal coils and covered hoppers enroute to customers in Lowell, Michigan. Here they are seen passing a gated community in rural Ada on a warm spring morning... (more)
Conducting air brake test to depart for Belding Siding. Has 7 cars to swap with turn out of Grand Rapids