8461 leads a train of mixed freight over the high spanning Grand River bridge on a beautiful spring evening.

Running as light power between Lansing and Grand Rapids, CSX Q327 rushes past the elevators at rural Clarksville, on the Plymouth sub.

CSXT 904091 and C&O 903320 behind it.

Things have changed over the years in Lansing. This scene used to include a double track main as well as a third spur track going to a local industry. The Pruden building in the background was o... (more)

The entire 130 car coal train is seen here rolling through this subtle sag on a wet and dreary spring day in west Michigan.

CSX's train Q327 arrives in Lansing's Ensel yard on a beautiful but bitter cold February afternoon.

CSX Q327 is backing its Lansing setout into Ensel Yard before proceeding onward to Grand Rapids and Chicago.

9354 leads an empty coal train through the small town of Sunfield on a beautiful spring afternoon.

9354 leads a train of empty coal cars west over the Grand River.

After stopping in Grand Rapids for a crew change, N956 continues on its way east to an Essexville power plant with the help of two GP38-2s pushers. About two miles remain before the job is comple... (more)

CSXT 5433 leads Q326 eastward past the former Pere Marquette Depot near downtown Lansing that has been converted into a restaurant.

Q326-09 approaches Michigan Ave. with 15 cars in tow.

Two clean SD50s make a run for Salem hill with a CPOX ("chicken pox") coal train. Just over my shoulder is "Mt. Trashmore," a monumental landfill, but you'll never see it because RP declines to a... (more)

The UP in Wisconsin, GTW in Mississippi, NS in New York ... oh, how mergers and acquisitions mix up the railroads! In Plymouth, Michigan this Seaboard U-boat prepares to drill the local Ford (lat... (more)