Two clean SD50s make a run for Salem hill with a CPOX ("chicken pox") coal train. Just over my shoulder is "Mt. Trashmore," a monumental landfill, but you'll never see it because RP declines to a... (more)

The UP in Wisconsin, GTW in Mississippi, NS in New York ... oh, how mergers and acquisitions mix up the railroads! In Plymouth, Michigan this Seaboard U-boat prepares to drill the local Ford (lat... (more)

K909 soars over the Grand River amid the fall colors.

7308 leads a short train through rural West Michigan on a warm autumn afternoon.

With fall color abloom, this CSX rock train passes over the old trestle in Grand Ledge.

It's only a matter of time before the antiquated signalling system along CSX's Plymouth sub is completely replaced, but this one still stands tall and proud as GCFX 3056 leads a daily freight by o... (more)

Sparks fly as a CSX MOW crew member uses a grinder during rail repair. Waiting for clearance about 2 miles off in the distance is CP's X500 en route to Montreal.

Sparks fly as a CSX MOW crew member uses a grinder during rail repair. Waiting for clearance about 2 miles off in the distance is CP's X500 en route to Montreal.

Hunting blinds aren't just for shooting deer. From about 30 feet up, the "gun" is aimed at a CSX train of mixed freight heading into the late evening sunshine.

CSX Train Q335 is pushing on towards its final destination of Grand Rapids as it passes through the southern section of the Michigan State University campus near Harrison Road in East Lansing.

Trying to find an opening in the woods along the Grand River to get a bridge shot here can be a challenge...

9537's horn blast startled a couple of redwing blackbirds that had been enjoying some peace and quiet in this rural setting. Oddly, their only course of escape was in FRONT of the very thing that... (more)

Ex-KCS motor 672 picked up by CP in the early nineties and patched to #5417 has a trackage rights train in tow at the Elmdale siding westbound. CP disposed of this locomotive to NRE in 2004.

Getting ready to take the north west turn and head for Saginaw

A Run-through Canadian Pacific train on CSXT tracks.