Day after Christmas sees P37126 on it's early light journey through the fields south of Holland.

A 3 month old ACe unit trails on this West Olive coal train, seen on the west leg of the wye in Holland. It just finished giving D80227 a shove up Saugatuck Hill, and now passing some peak fall f... (more)

10:00am - Sounds like D70002 and Q32701 are still trying to get underway to get west out of Grand Rapids. Q32602 is sitting out at Hudsonville waiting on these guys. Not sure if Q335 got to drag t... (more)

Got a heads up from Tlout that E949 was going by his place on the north side of Holland. With lots of snow the day before and a gorgeous sunny day, had to head trackside during lunch to nab a "we... (more)

D80119 shoving on D80219 with N90318's coal train, seen here going north around Anthrax Curve in Holland. 02/19/13

Welkom to Holland! Amtrak's Pere Marquette arrives in the tulip city on it's daily journey to Chicago.

Heads up from GLC392 mentioned that E945 was departing Grand Rapids westbound. Headed out on lunch in Holland, ran down to the depot. Had a few minutes before the train arrived, and saw a girl g... (more)

Heavy snow storm with 30+ mph sustained winds made it hard to see the train clearly until it was within 30 feet of the grade crossing. Many drifts throughout town, black ice under the snow on the... (more)

Throttling up as they cleared by, D80109 shoves N90307 up towards West Olive after clearing a 10mph restriction around Anthrax Curve.

MBD&T 4491 is one of three locomotives that work at Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Company in Holland, MI. The crane in the background loads gondolas with the shredded scrap metal, and each car is the... (more)

Started to setup for this load of coal at 140th Ave north of here, but with extra time, wondered WWJTD? He'd probably have flown to New Richmond for a shot at the bridge, but I managed to beat th... (more)

Starting its northbound trek, here's MMRR's Z627 going by the north end of the wye in Holland. Track on the right leads to Anthrax Curve.

CSXT 2667 leading D900 in Holland..Fellow RP member Jim Thias got there later than I, but of course he needed to be back further to use his massive lens, so I hid behind a bush to stay out of his ... (more)

Y121 winds its way through downtown Holland with a delivery of 14 empty gons to Padnos Iron & Metal.

CSX pulling western empties in Holland? Nah... D80124 pushing on the rear of this western coal load turning north around Anthrax Curve at Waverly Yard. Glad the pusher units left their ditchligh... (more)