Four Union Pacific green goats catch a ride with CP's X500 as it travels through Michigan and crosses the Thornapple River trestle. The train will terminate in Montreal where 2306, 2307, 2308 and... (more)

A rugged looking 180 heads back to Mid Michigan Railroad's Muskegon yard with a short train of empties from the Sappi Paper Mill. The small trestle spans an inlet creek which flows from Ruddiman ... (more)

Former Seaboard System 2667 leads a local freight through a highway construction area on its way to CSX's Wyoming, MI. yard. The construction area is for a new off ramp being built on the other s... (more)

9537 heads into the evening sun with a train of empty coal cars as it nears CSX's yard in Wyoming, MI.

9519 leads a full train of coke through the tiny community of New Richmond on its way to Chicago.

4615 pulls a single car to a local farm co-op customer in Britton, MI., on a cool spring afternoon.

Amtrak's #44 and 3 Superliners kick up a light dusting of snow as they pass the signal at the east end of CSX's Wells siding.

8017 leads a train of mixed freight through the campus of Michigan State University on a beautiful spring afternoon.

Smoke billows heavily out of 1225 as her speed is reduced heading into Alma, MI. Shadows from the early evening sun create the illusion of the power lines bending into the smoke.

1225 leads her train past the grain elevator in the small town of Shepherd, MI. A vintage sepia conversion creates a scene that could have taken place 50 years ago.

1225 runs past the Rosebush elevator on her excursion run back to Owosso, MI.

Releasing steam from the cylinder cocks, 1225 is ready to start her 70+ mile excursion run from Clare back to Owosso, MI. Along the way will be a stop in Mount Pleasant to pick up passengers who ... (more)

After leading tender-first on an excursion run to Clare, 1225's crew looks on as the locomotive is run around to the front of the train for its return trip to Owosso.

On a warm summer evening in June, GRE 3839 sits quietly next to her engine cowling, waiting for final repair after being quiet for over 8 months. July 11th marked the date that it was finally put... (more)

GRE 3839 and MMRR 3836 are parked quietly at their line limit just north of CSX's Holland-to-West Olive branch. These two engines, looking very patriotic together, hadn't played out this scene in... (more)