The LSRC Z126 job passes the Saginaw Yard offices with a veteran unit leading.

Lake State Z145 is on the move again after waiting for HESR 800 to clear at Mershon.

Sitting on borrowed time. On this rainy cold night in March i had no idea at the time that the 4300 the only GP40X on LSRC and two other GP40's would be pulled from service shortly after this and ... (more)

Comparison of Lake States new on the left and old on the right paint schemes on a pair of standard cabbed EMD's at Lake States yard. Photo taken with permission.

A pair of HESR trains are exchanging cars in the southern end of Genesee Yard in Saginaw.

Lake State train Z127 is busy in Saginaw yard. After doubling the first 3 tracks of their train, they shove over to 47 track to grab 10 cars from HESR. SD40-2s #6301 and 6302 sandwich SD40 #5921.

LSRC 4300 and 805 sit on the fuel pad, awaiting their call to action. This was one of the last decent shots I ever got of the 4300, it, along with the other red 4300s sit deactivated, waiting to b... (more)

Lake States new and first slug set its on the fuel pad after being set over by the Z127 crew. This was the first of two slug sets that were on order/rebuilt at MEI. Both sets are now on property a... (more)

Huron & Eastern's 800 job, with traffic from the thumb, makes it way around the connection track at Mershon Interlocking, with a colorful lashup of GP38's.

A new dawn breaks for the Lake State Railway as the first GP40-3/Road Slug set is readied for full-time service. Posed for PR photos on the company's business car track, GP40-3 #4303 - ex-LSRC GP... (more)

The sun rises on a new era for the Lake State Railway as the first GP40-3/Road Slug set is readied for full-time service. Posed for PR photos on the company's business car track, Road Slug #303 -... (more)

On May 4 (fittingly my wife's birthday...but not her amusement) the Lake State Railway assembled a quartet of the new corporate-image-painted locomotives for train Z126 from Saginaw to Bay City, M... (more)

A Sunday late morning Z127 is backing onto their train in Lake State's yard. The sign leaves little doubt who owns the place!

469 cast a lonely shadow on the side of the old PM roundhouse in Saginaw on a chilly wet damp night. 469 has been retired for years but has escaped the scrappers torch unlike its other D&M/LSRC al... (more)

LSRC Z120 is tied down in Saginaw Yard before departing for Flint with a grain train.