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)

9593 dodges the late evening shadows on a warm July night as it leads an empty coal train down the grade into the Kalamazoo River valley. The empties are from the J.R. Campbell Generating Complex... (more)

9593 leads a coal load up the grade out of the Kalamazoo River valley on its way to the J.R. Campbell Generating Complex in West Michigan.

5235 leads a load of eastern coal empties past the Harlem grain elevator on a snowy New Year's Day in West Michigan. A switchstand for an old factory spur still stands despite the track being remo... (more)

Dark, lake-effect snow clouds loom in the distance and dump light snow on 5235 as it leads an empty coal train out of Consumers Energy's J.R. Campbell Generating Complex. The yard is usually full... (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)

A Toronto-bound Canadian Pacific train sits in the siding while an empty BNSF coal train continues on its journey back to Wyoming.

A bird's eye view sees an empty BNSF coal train cruising through an elevated, high speed curve on its long journey back to the Powder River Basin.

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)

#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.

CP's X500 heads over the century-old Kalamazoo River bridge on a beautiful summer evening.

Marquette Rail's Z151 heads south over the Muskegon River bridge on a beautiful autumn afternoon.

A duck's eye view shows 5764 leading an empty coal train across the century-old Kalamazoo River bridge. Built sometime in 1907, the bridge replaced an old wooden trestle that was destroyed by a d... (more)

Marquette Rail's Z151 heads over the Muskegon River in Newaygo on its way to Grand Rapids, MI.

The early morning sunlight shines on 578 and a train of mixed freight as it passes through a snowy construction scene. The road in the background is receiving new on and off ramps to interstate 1... (more)