Wabash train number 79, the Chicago Express, is seen leaving Detroit Michigan in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A Norfolk Southern Job? Not at all! Conrail Shared Assets Job RR32 makes their way around Belanger on the Conrail Marsh Track with Coils for USS Steel on Thursday August 3, 2023.

A Grand trunk western Alco RS1 1951 works the roads yard in Mattle Creek MI in august 1979. this was the Last RS1 Alco Built and i believe it is Preserved at the Union Illinois railway Muesum.... (more)

A CP trackage rights manifest hits the flange bearing diamond where the Ann Arbor Railroad crosses the former Wabash. The former station is still used by Maintenance of Way and Local Crews.

What's left of a once robust business, Kansas City-Detroit is the last RoadRailer lane. 256 pulls from Milan, MI with 95 Triple Crown trailers on the drawbar.

Smokey skies , farms and Heritage units - CSX 911 Leads the daily M326 from Chicago to Grand Rapids with a new Marquette orange Geep trailing in the mix

CN 5366 leads CN L575 north in Trenton on their way to South Yard in River Rouge Michigan.

As the sun sets in Saginaw, Michigan, a pair of Lake State Railway GP's lead empty CSX grain train V765 across the Saginaw River to be interchanged to the Mid-Michigan Railroad. The crew is in the... (more)

Due to unfortunate circumstances, the CN L571 ended up leaving CN Flat Rock at a unusual late time Sunday July 23 with the GTW 4616. Here it is seen at Pennford in Taylor Michigan under the Arches... (more)

The GTW Heritage Unit leads A 491 towards Kirk. Here 491 sits at Michigan Avenue "BARRON" in Battle Creek waiting on a crew.

Marquette's Baldwin turn heads north across the Muskegon River.

CN 3229 leads CN M383 from Toronto to Toledo Ohio's Lang yard. Here it is seen in South Rockwood Michigan over the Huron River.

A Lake Superior & Ishpeming crew begins drilling cars out on the Marquette Ore Dock in Marquette, Michigan. The docked vessel, Kaye E. Barker, was built in 1952. Over the years the ship has receiv... (more)

A Lake Superior & Ishpeming crew begins drilling cars out on the Marquette Ore Dock in Marquette, Michigan. The docked vessel, Kaye E. Barker, was built in 1952. Over the years the ship has receiv... (more)

One of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming jobs pulls a cut of 60 cars out of the Cleveland Cliff's Tilden Mine. It was a perfect day to get out and fly the drone for some photos!