MQT 3389 Leads a three unit manifest Northbound to Baldwin Michigan through Newaygo Michigan over the Muskegon River

One of LS&I's six AC4400's leads the 3 Yard Hill over Dead River Trestle. In front of us is Trestle Falls.

With a trio of EMD's on the point, Canadian National L552 cruises across the Escanaba River in Escanaba, Michigan with a sizable train of paper boxcars. A former GTW GP9R makes for a classic leade... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific EMD SD50s power a southbound taconite ore train over the Escanaba River Bridge at North Escanaba, Michigan, on January 18, 1997. This Pratt through truss bridge was built i... (more)

CSXT 724 Heading Eastbound on it's way back to Grand Rapids Michigan from Chicago

MQT 3389 exits the Grand River crossing on the CSX rails at Market Ave. in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan

Shortly after leaving McGrewYard, LSRC 800 makes its way across the Flint River with Z127 bound for Wixom.

CNW 6916 leads a loaded ore train thru Brampton, MI on a beautiful day in June of 1988, bound for Escanaba. The SD40-2's replaced the Alco's and were quickly replaced by a pair of SD50/60's.

"The Money Shot", as the old grumpy conductor called it. After swapping the normal HESR 3868 out with the HESR 2026 from the 740 job, MMRR left Genesee Yard with a pickup in Paines (Shie... (more)

High over Butternut Creek. US 152 trails a steamy, white plume against a cobalt blue sky as she rumbles across the recently rebuilt Butternut Creek Trestle on the run back to Crossroads Vi... (more)

One of the few bright spots in an otherwise tragic week, a CP motor leads Detroit-Grand Rapids train Q329 over the uniquely decorated overpass in Kentwood, MI. I'll always think of my little sist... (more)

An Lake Superior & Ishpeming dock crew works their ore dock near Marquette, MI while the Herbert C. Jackson ore carrier takes on taconite ore. The ship will leave later that evening. While visitin... (more)

Lake State Railway recently took lease of the former Grand Trunk Western Port Huron Track, a 3.9-mile branchline that extends from the former GTW yard in Port Huron to the Dunn Paper mill along th... (more)

Huron and Eastern 702 is crossing over the Saginaw River as they toward Durand with five engines.

CNW 6916 skirts the shores of Goose Lake near Marquette, MI on a beautiful day in June of 1988. Alco's pulled these ore trains just a few years earlier, but the SD40-2's were nice in their own rig... (more)