Amtrak 156 is leading train 355 westward on the Michigan Line near the Detroit/Dearborn city limits. This location is near the western end of Livernois Yard, which served as the major hump yard ... (more)

CSXT 7349 is on Y122 as they build the Livernois Yard transfer at Rougemere in Dearborn.

NS 6781 is leading Train 62T past the Amtrak station in Dearborn as they head for Wayne with a unit steel train.

CSX 4409 is heading back toward Livernois Yard after working Dearborn Steel. The connection at CP-Lou was built after the Conrail merger to connect CSX's Detroit Sub with the Michigan Line, which... (more)

Amtrak 355 is pulling out of their station stop in Dearborn as they continue into the late day sun running toward Chicago.

One of the gensets assigned to Rougemere Yard is working on a sunny Memorial Day.

A former Conrail SD60M leads a southbound mixed freight along the Junction Yard Branch at Schaefer Road in Dearborn.

A pair of UP SD70Ms lead CSX Q234 along the Detroit Subdivision in Dearborn as they head for Chrysler in Warren with 3 auto part boxes.

Sitting in the engineers seat of C&O 1601 shows a steam pressure gauge that has not moved in nearly 45 years.

The 8064 is resting at Rougemere Yard between assignments as the Ford Rouge complex towers behind it.

Amtrak 26 leads Train 355 into their station stop at Dearborn with a pair of P42s on the point.

You are looking at the world's most powerful articulated steam locomotive, C&O H-8 2-6-6-6 Allegheny 1601. It and it's brethren were rated for 7,498 horsepower at 46 MPH. Interesting how single un... (more)

C&O 1601's cab is immaculate at the Ford Museum. Here is a fun fact, if you pull the throttle, you get steam sound effects. Cool! To keep people from tripping on the grate shakers the museum has... (more)

The DeWitt Clinton and C&O 1601 composite the greatest display of alpha and omega design I have ever seen. Any observer can grasp the genealogy of steam locomotive engineering with this tableau. ... (more)

One of the very first production diesel-electric locomotives was this odd-looking contraption. As early as the first years of the 20th century, General Electric apparently had ideas for a ... (more)