WC SD45 (with RC caboose leading) drags a cut of taconite hoppers toward the dumper. Taconite stockpiles dominate the background.

Crew members grease 765's rods in the GLC Cadillac yard. A broken spring hanger was later discovered, preventing the Berkshire from pulling the return leg of the color tour back to Ithaca.

Ex-BN GE leads a special movement of Vestas wind turbine blades destined for the Thumb. Train is traveling through Gilford Twp, which is getting its own (ironically, GE) turbines and blades by tr... (more)

Late evening sun glints off of the dock approach as 3000 and sister 3073 (C30-7) pull ore hoppers off the dock

Dwarfed by her own smoke plume, N&W 382 leads the Virginia Creeper mixed freight back to East Strasburg station. A Lerro Productions photo charter.

RailAmerica-painted Huron and Eastern GP38-2s 3865 and 3866 race light engine toward Arthur to switch out ADM and Agrium on their way to Reese and points east in Michigan's Thumb. Pan at 1/15th.

LS&I U30C and C30-7 switch out the ore dock.

Sole power on the Lapeer Industrial Railroad is this GE centercab.

SD50F class unit leads a ragged SD40-2W on a westbound auto rack train

PM 1225 and Flagg Coal 0-4-0T #75 are under steam at the Owosso turntable.

WC Operation Lifesaver SD45 with sister 7513 lead a southbound ore train en route to Escanaba

Huron and Eastern train heads to Caro over the shortest railroad overpass I've seen - 8' 0"

Ex-BN U30C 3005 and C30-7 3073 sit on the ready track while U30C 3052 idles away on the shop lead

Tie crane still bears a blue GT noodle barely visible on its cab. This wasn't the "action" I had hoped for in Durand...

B30-7 of Central Michigan, BN, and Frisco heritage leads GP38-2 3866 on the Arthur Turn through the bean fields and backyards of Michigan's Thumb.