Passing the elevators at Ithaca. Under a frigid, grey overcast, Chesapeake & Ohio Berkshire Locomotive #2699 hauls a fast passenger train past the grain elevators in tiny Ithaca, MI, en route to Mt. Pleasant and eventually, Cadillac.
This image was captured near Milepost 138.5 on Michigan's Great Lakes Central Railroad. The featured locomotive is Pere Marquette Railroad N-1 Class, 2-8-4 "Berkshire" Locomotive #1225, which was re-lettered as C&O 2699 for a January 2026 photo shoot organized by Lerro Photography. The 1225 was re-lettered to represent the former PM N-Class Berkshires, which were renumbered when the Pere Marquette Railroad merged with the Chesapeake & Ohio in 1947.
