Southbound Agawa Canyon tour train crosses the Montreal River during peak fall color.

Ex-Rocky Mountaineer 800 and 801 lead the inbound freight on a pleasant, late spring morning.

The 614 pulls the "Chessie Safety Express" on a warm, May 31, 1981.

(Per request, here is another of the Woodstock box cars.) A trio of box cars with animated characters portray the past present and future of area railroads. The past-day car shows a grumpy bull o... (more)

A trio of box cars with animated characters portray the past, present and future of area railroads. The present-day VIA RAIL patrons are well-contented.

As if taken from a setting in a Willa Cather novel, a trio of Great western MLW's rolls through the Saskatchewan prairies to pick up some grain cars in Vanguard.

While photographing the 1218 on an excursion run to Columbus, Ohio, I happened upon this 1951 Chevrolet along the track. It certainly made for a more interesting photo.

Originally purchased for the Ann Arbor Railroad in the mid-1960's, GP35 NO. 392, handed down by previous owner Tuscola & Saginaw Bay, rests after a day's work beside the Great Lakes Central Owosso... (more)

An F59PH has been painted for the proposed new Detroit area commuter service to Ann Arbor, Michigan. As of late 2010, start up is uncertain.

Freshly-fallen snow is no match for the daily southbound freight from Cheboygan as seen north of Wolverine. Railroad would abandon service on this section of track in late summer 1990.

GO's maintenance facility environs are easily photographed from public property.

For decades diesels manufactured in Schenectady (and in later years Montreal) pulled trains across this river. With the day of the Alco over on the Lake State Railway, EMD products now rule.

As the day of the electrically-activated semaphore is drawing to a close, a small number of attractive, fixed-position semaphores still can be found. Likely, photographers will be making pilgrimag... (more)

Painted for original owner Manistee & North Eastern, NW-2 NO. 3 pulls a train over its namesake rails. Abandoned by the C&O and weed-grown for over twenty years, this line was reopened by the Leel... (more)

Affiliated railroads, Saginaw Bay Southern and Lake State Railways' dead fleet of Alcos and MLWs make an impressive line-up. As of June 2010, only one c-425 was still working, and an Alco adieu is... (more)