Under speed restriction, Train 350 crawls toward NS Comstock.

Grand Elk rings in a quiet new year. Kevin the Fuel Dude just topped off the fleet. WAMX 4002, 4009, 4017, 3531, 3806 & 4124 all sit ready for duty.

Amtrak 365 clears interlocking at BO TOWER on approach to Kalamazoo.

Amtrak 352 Fights a gale force blizzard as it goes Past BO tower on its way out of Kalamazoo

History lives. Where the NYC's famous streamlined Hudsons once tread, SP 4449 rolls past BO Tower, one of the last few active interlocking towers in the state of Michigan. The engine is enroute to... (more)

A trio of Conrail units return to Botsford after working the UpJohn spur, a remnant of the old PRR GR&I secondary.

Grand Elk is the new player in town, taking over what remains of the NYC-PRR/PC/CR/NS operations of my youth. The train is approaching CP Gib, the switch that will lead to a connector eastward to... (more)

BO Tower directs a Grand Elk train w/70+ cars eastward to Botsford Yard off the BO Secondary, as seen from the CK&S perspective on a Saturday afternoon. Come Monday, the tower would get a little ... (more)

A handsome Grand Elk consist drags 70+ cars into town, nearing the control point named "Gib" (Gibson St.).

Delayed by freight train interference ahead, Amtrak #352 passes BO Tower enroute to Detroit. The tower is undergoing a roof tear-off by contractors.

An Amtrak Michigan Service train departs Kalamazoo.

Amtrak departs Kalamazoo rolling westward past the campus of Western Michigan University. My old dorm room overlooked this trackage in the early '70s when I went to school here, during the rainbo... (more)

A late-running 39J grinds it's way up the hill out of the Kalamazoo River valley passing Milham Park, bound for Elkhart, IN. 3179 is ex-BN.

BO Tower, one of the last manned interlocking towers in Michigan, still stands guard over two crossings of the ex-Michigan Central mainline in Kalamazoo. A westbound Amtrak train is at the statio... (more)

Eastbound Train #350, The Wolverine, makes its station stop at Kalamazoo on a beautiful Spring day.