The GLC ONTN passes through the west end of Owosso as it moves out of town in a golden sunset with the first signs of fall poking through.

PM 1225 gets her rear tube plate installed, as a welder from Purvis & Foster lights up her firebox with the blue-purple glow of his arc welder. Funds are still needed for 1225's 15-year overhaul.

With her ash pans and fire grate removed, it's possible to see into PM 1225's firebox from ground level. A welder from Purvis & Foster welds in the rear tube plate, as progress continues on the r... (more)

Progress continues on 1225. The Berkshire has had her inner firebox sheets installed, and workers are continuing the process of installing thousands of staybolts. Funds are still needed to compl... (more)

More than two months after the GLC ONTN put 13 loaded sand cars on their sides north of Owosso, a pair of GLC GP38-2's pull 3 partially wrecked hoppers back into Owosso and to the shop areas to be... (more)

GLC 397 pokes its nose out to the photographer from behind a centerbeam flat in San Yard. The centerbeam will be used as an idler car between the locomotives and a power transformer on a depressed... (more)

GLC conductor Justin Ellis attaches the EOT to the rear of his train. Under operating rules, this device must be in place if operations will occur within one hour before sunset and one hour after ... (more)

The GLC ONTN rolls northbound out of Owosso with 28 cars, mostly empty sand as it makes its way up to Clare, MI. before turning and coming back to Owosso.

Third year Great Lakes Central conductor Justin Ellis rides a cut of cars back in the south end of San Yard as he and his engineer Josh Whorley work to build their train which is bound for Osmer, ... (more)

When One's Not Enough. What's a railfan from the steam-starved East to do The answer, at least in 2009, was to Go West to Michigan, where eight locomotives were gathering. Here fo... (more)

GLC 396 + 4 run light north to pick up a 90 car CSX unit grain train from Frutchey Bean to head south as OSTN and hand off the train to the Ann Arbor.

GLC 390 runs north at Baldwin Rd. southeast of Carland as it heads north to Clare with 28 loads under the command of engineer Josh Whorley and conductor Justin Ellis.

The GLC evening train departs Owosso northbound first to visit Oakley to pick up a CSX unit grain train and then head south as OSTN.

GLC 399 leads the southbound OSTN out of San Yard with a train of grain hoppers from Henderson elevator under the watchful command of engineer Matt Cox and Conductor John Springsdorf.

Taken during Steamfest 2009.