Tire promoting a local car repair shop frames the power of the afternoon southbound train.

From my slide collection by an unknown photographer.

D&M RS-2 469 built new Nov. 1946 leads RS-3 1077, ex Long Island 1553 with a stone train. From my slide collection by BOB WILT.

From my slide collection by BOB WILT.

From my slide collection by fellow Railpicture photographer Ron Cady.

D&M RS-2 466 was the first RS-2, built in 1946. After some 40+ years of service on the D&M it was sold to the Tuscola & Saginaw Bay and then to the Michigan Southern. Sadly I believe this very his... (more)

Detroit & Mackinac RS-3u 975. From my slide collection by STEVE SMEDLEY.

From my slide collection by BILL JOHNSON.

DM RS3u 974 & C420 976. From my slide collection, by BOB WILT.

DM RS3u 974 leads C420 976 out of ALPENA MI. From my slide collection photo by BOB WILT.

LSRC 975 spends another cold night outside. The unit started her life as Boston & Maine #1517 before having her nose chopped and having a 12-251C engine put in by Morrison Knudsen. The unit came t... (more)

Arriving before dawnbreak, newly-repainted LSRC #805 wears the railroad's new, brighter blue paint scheme. Unit previously wore Canada's "Rocky Mountaineer" colors.

With 101 loads in tow, train 326 growls up the grade out of Alpena as it begins its journey to Bay City.

Certainly the LSRC's most unique unit, GP40-2 4300 (rebuilt from one of twenty-three GP40Xs) sports experimental HT-B trucks (one of only ten units to receive them), a cab mounted bell, a K5LA, SP... (more)

The Lake State's MLW and Alco fleet were given a trailing-only designation for 2009 (their final year). This meant that one could photograph them "leading" in good light as the crew turned the pow... (more)