Lots of heads-ups as this office car special was routed from Toledo through Grand Rapids to Chicago. Headed out on lunch break to nab them with Nevets and cnw8835 at 55th St south of Holland.

Got a heads up from Tlout that E949 was going by his place on the north side of Holland. With lots of snow the day before and a gorgeous sunny day, had to head trackside during lunch to nab a "we... (more)

D80119 shoving on D80219 with N90318's coal train, seen here going north around Anthrax Curve in Holland. 02/19/13

Late running 326 heads east out of Grand Rapids with a good clip of snow billowing out around it. 326/327 no longer run east of GR and was truncated to a Chicago/GR run.

Following an eastbound stone train, this MOW force with ties loaded in the gons are heading out to the Lake Odessa area to unload. Grand Rapids skyline in the background with a searchlight signal... (more)

Not too many westbounds into Grand Rapids in the evening anymore, but happen to catch a recrewed D707, running as D90724, pulling long hood forward with a train of mainly empty centerbeam flat car... (more)

Heads up from GLC392 mentioned that E945 was departing Grand Rapids westbound. Headed out on lunch in Holland, ran down to the depot. Had a few minutes before the train arrived, and saw a girl g... (more)

Heavy snow storm with 30+ mph sustained winds made it hard to see the train clearly until it was within 30 feet of the grade crossing. Many drifts throughout town, black ice under the snow on the... (more)

At daybreak, run heading north along N Chipman Rd. Light fog breaking up as the sun burns it off.

Crew monitoring over their backup move on this photo charter at daybreak. Wood stove keeping the caboose warm with some nice black exhaust.

Throttling up as they cleared by, D80109 shoves N90307 up towards West Olive after clearing a 10mph restriction around Anthrax Curve.

After meeting Amtrak this morning at East Waverly, we see Q326 heading east through Zeeland with a whole lot of sandies from the Waverly pickup.

Ballast was recently dumped on this stretch west of Hudsonville where we see Q326 eastbound. Codeline should be gone in a year as new signals are being installed.

Father's day treat while the kiddos were sleeping was a bike ride to Seymour to catch this westbound Herzog ballast train. They ended up dumping ballast the following day east of Grand Rapids bef... (more)

From a rickety old wooden bridge east of Albion, he's an eastbound on CSX in the fall. Most foliage has passed, but I've always been a fan of the dead brown look.