Amtrak's Pere Marquette consist is ferried from its overnight storage location in Fuller to the Grand Rapids Amtrak station each morning. On this particular morning the train is running a bit late... (more)
A CSX local slowly crosses the Grand River Bridge. The crew will work the Joe Brown lead before heading north to Fuller. The signal in the distance is at Market Ave. and controls movements throu... (more)
A short CSX local is clearing the interlocking at Sunnyside as it heads for Wyoming Yard a short distance to the west.
A local Grand Elk crew brings a transfer run into Hughart Yard from both CSX and the Grand Rapids Eastern interchange at Fuller.
Father's day treat while the kiddos were sleeping was a bike ride to Seymour to catch this westbound Herzog ballast train. They ended up dumping ballast the following day east of Grand Rapids bef... (more)
Marquette Rail arriving in Grand Rapids Michigan to pickup a 51 car train of windmill parts headed for Ludington MI.
Local Y106 will run to Elmdale where the power will run around the train before working customers on the way back to Wyoming Yard.
R170 a reroute due to a derailment on the B&O main, crosses through the intersection of Silver and Elliot streets making this one of the most interesting grand crossings in Grand Rapids.
Fresh out of the GE plant in Erie, PA., are 988 and 987 sporting CSX's newest paint scheme. The two units led a loaded coal train through west Michigan en route to the J.H. Campbell Generating Co... (more)
Q335 trundles around the edge of the Gerald Ford International Airport on its way out of Grand Rapids on a warm summer day.
With the Plymouth Sub being down to just 2 road trains a day, and with Q334 leaving in the morning when I'm usually at work, Q335 is often the only train I can go see. Here recently de-rated from ... (more)
Only daylight train in eastern Grand Rapids today happened to come in sweet sunlight. Many people at the cemetery today here near Seymour.
Richard Beal photo: Standing above the crowds, the inaugural Pere Marquette breaks through the banner at Grand Rapids.
Weighing in at over 13,000 tons, this 9,700 foot train will shortly arrive at Wyoming Yard in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Amtrak 370 pulls to a stop in Grand Rapids with the Amazing looking 156 Heritage unit bringing up the rear.
