Amtrak 28 leads a 6 car Pere Marquette across the farm landscape of Southwestern Michigan on a nice sunny May morning.
BNSF 6241 and 8972 lead a 65-car coal drag northbound through East Saugatuck en route for the J.R. Campbell Generating Complex in West Olive.
A typical summer morning scene in rural West Michigan.
A golden sunset casts light on Canadian Pacific's train X500 as it roars through rural West Michigan.
8803 and GCFX 3088 roll by a typical Michigan farm scene on a beautiful spring morning.
5646 and a partner help push 130 car loads of coal up the hill in East Saugatuck. Only about a half mile remains on this 4+ mile curving grade, and after their job is done, the pair will head lig... (more)
9372 leads a load of coal empties through the west Michigan countryside.
9466 brings up the rear of a loaded coal train as it climbs the hill out of the Kalamazoo River valley. The 130-car train is at a crawl as the head end is just reaching the crest of the hill whil... (more)
Amtrak's Pere Marquette speeds through the morning fog in rural west Michigan on its way to Chicago.
The corn is growing, but not yet "knee high" in this rural West Michigan scene. Amtrak's Pere Marquette was running an hour earlier due to track maintenance, and here the 7:30 am sunlight glisten... (more)
After a week of 70 degree temps, winter returned to west Michigan bringing high winds and blowing snow. Enroute to Chicago with a load of coke, 8783 and CEFX 3105 create their own wind, kicking u... (more)