With the formation of Conrail on April 1 1976 the DT&I gained operating rights into the Southern Gest St. yard. By the way of the former Pennsy line along the Cincinnati riverfront.. The engine ... (more)

With the formation of Conrail the DT&I gained operating rights into the L&N yard at DeCousery KY. This motive power might have come off DC 7.

power being serviced at Flat Rock engine facility

a pair of DT&I's SD38's were working the Flat Rock yard

A southbound DTI local has just departed Flat Rock yard

I found this train sitting out on the main line with no crew and the train cars cut in several places to not block the road crossings in town. I don't know what was going on either the crew had ... (more)

Motive power movement of 6 units with a boxcar and caboose heading north to Springfield Oh. on PC track age rights to Cincinnati.

Running on the L&N Wilder Branch to the L&N DeCoursey yard.

Old-school DT&I power works the weed-strewn PRR yard tracks by St. Clair Ave. This land would later become I-670.

Sitting in the shops area near the northern end of the Napoleon branch - DT&I's mainline in pre-Henry Ford days - 222 waits for its crew to board and head for the Campbell Soup factory across the ... (more)

It's orange paint faded and weathered, DT&I 988 blends with the brick and rusted metal buildings of the former Western Railway of Alabama backshop area. RSCo used the facility in the early 1970s ... (more)

Unseasonably warm temperatures that Friday morning created a fog bank over Southeast Michigan. DT&I 204 pulls a string of cars from Flat Rock to Ford's River Rouge Plant in Dearborn. Concrete arch... (more)

A couple of DT&I GP's sit around the long gone GT's Elsdon yard in Chicago.

Westbound Detroit, Toledo & Ironton freight train passing the Michigan Central station in downtown Detroit, Michigan, on September 5, 1976. The station was built in 1912-13 and remained in use unt... (more)