Freshly-fallen snow is no match for the daily southbound freight from Cheboygan as seen north of Wolverine. Railroad would abandon service on this section of track in late summer 1990.

D&M 1280 hustles south with the Cheboygan-Bay City freight near Topinabee. The train is made up of mainly paper loads and empty tanks from the mill in Cheboygan. The mill supplied nearly all of th... (more)

The remains of the old Chief Wawatam slip still stand in 2010. Nowadays, the Coast Guard cutter "Mackinac" rests where the mighty Chief once did. Unfortunately, the remains of the Chief were recen... (more)

D&M 1077 rests in Mackinaw City waiting for the Chief Wawatam to return from St. Ignace. I like the sign above the short hood of the RS-3. After this photo we always referred to 1077 as D&M's BEST... (more)

D&M RS-2 466 is ready to go about its chores of switching the Cheboygan area industries. The 466 was ordered in the 6 month of 1946 and was delivered in October of 1946 as the first production RS-... (more)

D&M 4610 sifts through fresh snow as it departs Cheboygan with 3 cars headed to Mackinaw City to work the car ferry. In a odd twist the D&M did all the switching of the Chief at Mackinaw City whil... (more)

D&M 469 rests outside the small enginehouse at Cheboygan. Note the improvised cover, a piece of plywood held down with a rock over the exhaust stack.

On a frigid Feb. day D&M 975 is trying to get some loaded coal hoppers onto the Chief Wawatam at Mackinaw City. The coal was bound from West Virginia to Algoma Steel at Sault Ste. Marie and was pa... (more)

D&M 281,381 roll the Cheboygan-Bay City freight south past the old NYC station, that now appears to be a residence at Wolverine.

1989 was the last full year of operation of this trackage between Cheboygan and Gaylord. In September 1990 service would end and the tracks would be removed a few months later. Winter operations w... (more)

D&M 381 on CG-2 skirts the shore on Mullet Lake on a warm July evening. A number of pleasure boaters are out enjoying the fine weather.

D&M 1280,381 highball south with 28 cars of paper from Cheboygan and lumber off the the Chief Wawatum connection. At the time CG-2 was to work at 6:30PM in Cheboygan with a normal departure a litt... (more)

D&M 381, brings a grain train off the saltline, getting ready to back into the yard at Durand, on a nice fall afternoon.

A hopper car, long out of service, sits as decoration on the old coaling trestle in Ann Arbor. This unusual vantage point offers a look at the draft gear. (Taken with an iPhone.)

Gaylord was the center of my consulting career during this time, and my first month of encounters with the D&M were around Grayling-Gaylord-Alpena. Threatening skies herald the first significant s... (more)