The last winter for the Burney line was tough. The snow just kept getting deeper. This is April and the snow should be almost gone. The snow in this part of the world tends to have a high water ... (more)
The Marquette Plow Extra blasts another crossing in the Manistee Forest.
The Plow Extra shoves through White Cloud.
Dealing with the winter storm aftermath, men & equipement work hard in order to clear the yard. VB 201 is a former CP Jordan Spreader built in 1928.
A derailment from a few nights before gets buried just a little bit deeper as the GMTX 2648 shoves through headed for Grand Rapids.
Bound for Megantic, Snow Plow Extra 8569 East works upgrade out of Lennoxville
Farnham-Megantic Snow Plow Extra, reflects in Lake Memphremagog as it rolls through town
The Plow Extra rumbles across the Muskegon River on it's way south toward Grand Rapids.
Westbound plow extra meets an eastbound AYWA at Newfields. The plow extra is using B&M double track plow 3742 , MEC 315, MEC 601, B&M double track plow 2743.
Headed for Sparta, Michigan and nearing the end of the line in Grand Rapids, The GMTX 2648 makes light work of the remaining snow.
The Plow Extra blasts through the south end of Grant burying a derailment of tank cars that had broke loose of their hand breaks and drifted to disaster a few days prior.
A title wave of snow crashes on road as the Marquette Rail Plow Extra blasts across M 37 just North of White Cloud.
GMTX 2635 pushes Marquette Rail's Russell snowplow through a beautiful winter scene in northern Michigan. The sign on the tree was obeyed. :-)
GMTX 2635 looks right at home in this winter wonderland as it takes a break before pushing the Russell plow onward toward Baldwin, MI.
Fellow RP contributor Aaron Schlegel stands atop our chase vehicle to get a higher perspective of Marquette Rail's first plow run of the year.
