I found these flowers about 4 minutes before the train arrived. After a mad dash to clear out pesky weeds my efforts were rewarded with a shot of the 1179 pulling past the flowers on a beautiful s... (more)

Train 326 pulls South at 3rd Street just before the clouds roll in to darken up the scene.

LSRC M420W 3500 leads train 326 South at the Werth Road crossing.

LSRC train 326 sneaks its way out of the Alpena area. It is seen here crossing the busy Washington Ave. (M-32) with GP40M-2 1171 and C425M-ac 181 as the power.

So this is what it's like to be a bug....taken with permission.

Train 325 (the Alpena Yard job) has just put together the consist for train 326 which now awaits its crew to take it South to Bay City.

To get elevation for this shot, I climbed on top of my minivan!

Train 326 passes a small building as it heads for downtown Alpena and points south.

M420W 3500 leads train 326 down a stretch of "cheater's" street running in Alpena. Alpena had a real stretch of street running along Fletcher Street that was abandoned a few years ago.

Alco C425M 381 pulls a short 9 car train 326 across the Thunder Bay River and out of Alpena.

Lake State Railway train 326 pulls past the cat tails as it approaches Grant Street.

Even though the flowers haven't started blooming yet, Lake State Railway train 326, lead by M420W 798, passes a pretty scene while rolling out of Alpena.

Local railfans nicknamed this curve Death Curve because the trains used to look (and sound) like they were going to derail when going around it. Here we see M420W 798 entering the infamous curve.

Lake State Railway M420W 798, the city of Alpena, is seen here in the Alpena Yard on a beautiful spring evening.

Lake State Railway C425M 381, which was made in HO scale by Atlas, pulls around Death Curve on a beautiful summer's day.