Conrail B23-7 number 1980 was delivered in April 1979 with a one-of-a-kind message on its long hood: "Keep It Moving With Conrail!" This was the only locomotive to feature this slogan. The thought... (more)

Canadian Pacific 4-6-2, number 1293 is a June 1948 graduate of the Canadian Locomotive Company, Ltd. of Kingston, Ontario. The class G-5-d has 70-inch drivers and has a tractive effort of 34,000 p... (more)

Pere Marquette 1225 (Lima, 1941) arrives at Ashley, Michigan after pulling the North Pole Express up from Owosso.

Any white-water rafting trip to West Virginia and the New River isn't complete without a side excursion to Thurmond. The National Park Service had just recently taken control of Thurmond during th... (more)

Fresh from rebuilding at Peaker Services in Brighton, Michigan, this 1981 image at Milwaukee Junction shows SEMTA GP19 904 just prior to being placed into commuter service between Detroit and Pont... (more)

As part of the Hamburg, Michigan Family Fun Fest summer festival, the Steam Railroading Institute in cooperation with the Great Lakes Central offered "push-pull" steam train rides during... (more)

As part of the Hamburg, Michigan Family Fun Fest summer festival, the Steam Railroading Institute in cooperation with the Great Lakes Central offered "push-pull" steam train rides during... (more)

After passing over the diamonds at Trowbridge Interlocking, a Grand Trunk GP38-2 leads an eastbound train, approaching South Harrison Road and the East Lansing Amtrak station on a beautiful May mo... (more)

The cab roof of GTW 7911, an EMD NW2, sits amongst its shattered remains in a Battle Creek scrap yard in the summer of 1984. This locomotive, built in February of 1942, was one of 15 in the order ... (more)

This image, shot in August of 1980, shows GM50 - the GP40-2 that EMD delivered in special gold paint to commemorate EMD's 50th anniversary. Shot on Kodachrome 25 on a very humid August day at Roug... (more)

This March 1989 Kodachrome shows a filthy U30B leading this southbound train at Carleton, Michigan with the engineer just about to grab the orders. Today, the tower is closed (but still standing... (more)

GLLX 921, also known as "Miss Scarlet" - due to that name being painted on the end of the long hood - is ex-Twin Branch Coal 921, nee NW 921. After serving the N&W, it was acquired by the Twin Bra... (more)

Charlotte Southern #3 is seen here in its namesake city warming up in preparation for the sold-out 7pm Murder Mystery Dinner Train. Sandwiched between two 6-foot snow banks, the GE 44-tonner and i... (more)

Northbound on the left hand main (timetable West) to run around a derailment cleanup one mile ahead, GTW 5832 is in charge of train 435 (inter-modal from Ferndale to Blue Island) on this June even... (more)

Three Lake Superior and Ishpeming RSD-15's (ex Santa Fe) wait quietly for a crew to come on duty and fire them up for the next ore train. Ektachrome 64.