The afternoon job begins their task around the shops in Owosso. The crew will shove out to the yard south of town and somehow spend the rest of the evening switching. We gave up and went onward fo... (more)

The GLC crews spent most of the week switching cars for hours on end at Owosso before departing, which made for some missed opportunities on the chase to Ann Arbor. The job is seen here with 3 bea... (more)

The local out of Owosso bound for the Ann Arbor begins the grueling 4 hours task of switching out over 110 car outbound. This would prove to somewhat ruin the day for getting them to come back no... (more)

The GLC and CSX cross at a place called Ann Pere on the CSX side just east of Howell. This crossing was once between the Ann Arbor Railroad and the Pere Marquette. The southbound GLC freight head... (more)

Great Lakes Central Rolling Northbound in front of the Amtrak Station and across the CN/GLC Diamond in Durand Michigan , with 386/383 leading. This run originated in Ann Arbor and concluded back i... (more)

A pair of former MRL SD35's lead the Great Lakes Central's OSTN as it departs out of Owasso, Michigan and heads north towards Cadillac. In the background is the former Woodard Furniture Company bu... (more)

The Great Lakes Central's OSTN rolls over a swollen Shiawassee River in Vernon, Michigan behind a trio of EMD's on a dreary October afternoon. GLC utilizes trackage rights over the HESR to get fro... (more)

Two blue GP38-2s snake around the curves south of Manton, Michigan, riding on Pennsy's link to the Upper Peninsula. The "long" train of 29 cars included a cut of ballast hoppers for the ... (more)

The Great Lakes Central's OSTN makes an evening run southbound past the Kent grain elevator complex in Cohoctah, Michigan behind a trio of SD's, today's power being an SD40-2 and two SD35's.

The crews from Cadillac and Owosso begin to swap trains in the yard in Clare. Behind them, some trees erupt like fire as fall color develops.

A pair of ex-MRL SD35's leads the Great Lakes Central's ONTN as it heads north on a foggy morning and passes through the center of town in Ashley, Michigan.

One splash of autumn color, and one splash of sun. All that I could hope for, as CSTN nears its southward destination of Clare to meet its Owosso counterpart.

The Great Lakes Central's OSTN accelerates southbound after coming off a brief section of trackage rights over the CN in Durand, Michigan and on to their Ann Arbor District, rolling through the ru... (more)

It's a dreary, rainy day in Cohoctah, Michigan as a trio of Great Lakes Central EMD's lead the OSTN southbound through town, past the old grain elevator complex. A pair of GP38-2's lead on the ex-... (more)

GLC 390 hammers south through some gorgeous fall color near McBain, Michigan, on October 22nd. 390 has been polishing these rails for almost 60 years, and the Alco-trucked GP35 shows no signs of s... (more)