THE MAPLE LEAF, Train 20, has just arrived from Chicago. It is waiting in Durand while the last car is detached so that it can later be hooked to the rear of Detroit bound Train 56 which can be s... (more)

Train #21 has just left the Birmingham station and is on its way to Muskegon. The rear coach will be switched to the Chicago bound INTER-CITY LIMITED at Durand. Locomotive 5629 was scrapped in Jul... (more)

Train #21 from Detroit to Muskegon is shown arriving at the Birmngham station. You will note that the platform was level with the car floors and so passengers were not required to climb steps to ... (more)

The ANN ARBOR name still appears on this GP 35 along with several other Diesels parked along this short stretch of track.. However, under the cab window there is a very faint sign reading MICHIGA... (more)

I photographed this string of ANN ARBOR RAILROAD GP 35's in 1983, the day after Pere Marquette 1225 was moved into the former ANN ARBOR Shops for restoration. When the ANN ARBOR went bankrupt MIC... (more)

Some passenger cars of the COLE BROS. CIRCUS train.

Formerly used for hauling timber in the northwest, No. 2 sits in the yard at Mackinaw City waiting to be taken to the BOYNE CITY RR shops for a complete overhaul before assignment to freight and ... (more)

One day we discovered this locomotive sitting in the yard at Mackinaw City. It had recently crossed the Straits of Mackinac aboard the rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM. It had come all the way from the ... (more)

Morning freight heading toward Houghton near Portage Lake.

The stern of the rail barge MANISTEE is almost completely into the slip where its rails will become attached to those of the NEW YORK CENTRAL so that the freight cars can be unloaded and switched ... (more)

Here we see the apron on the dock at the left being lowered to mate with the rails aboard the barge MANISTEE which is loaded with freight cars which have just been ferried across the Straits of Ma... (more)

During the summer and fall of 1965, while the CHIEF WAWATAM, the regular rail ferry between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, Michigan was in Manitowoc, Wisonsin for a boiler rebuild, the rail barge M... (more)

It is an August evening in 1946. DSS&A Train No. 2 has arrived in St. Ignace. It is about to board the rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM and be taken across the Straits of Mackinac to Mackinaw City where ... (more)

This locomotive is pushing the string of cars headed for the rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM which can be seen in my photo 627990.

A string of freight cars on the DSS&A is backing to the rail ferry dock in St. Ignace, Michigan. They will be loaded aboard the SS CHIEF WAWATAM and carried across the Straits of Mackinac to Mack... (more)