Last days of Summer

Amtrak's Blue Water races east through the Michigan State campus, enroute to Port Huron.

Amtrak's Blue Water heads east across Hagadorn road as it departs East Lansing. Next stop, Durand!

CSX Q327-02 heads west through the trees near Farm LanX, just south of MSU. From the looks of things, it appears that 8758 has no AC, so the crew has resorted to using the Ramaire method to keep cool in the cab.

CSX"Q327-02

CN 766 heads east up the slight grade between Bogue St. and Hagadorn road on MSU's campus, with an SD70MAC and an ES44AC

BNSF 9723 leads CN 766 through the Michigan State campus, heading for Durand lnd Detroit.

After a brief stop to pick up several Northern Arrow passengers, Amtrak 364 departs East Lansing for Durand, with C&O Private car "Chapel Hill" bringing up the markers.

Amtrak 364, with the Petoskey Northern Arrow on the rear of the train, makes its nightly stop at East Lansing to board and detrain passengers.

Minnesota Northern 1471 sits in the deadline at Bay City, awaiting repairs.

Sitting next to the shops at Central Michigan's Wenona yard.

Saginaw Valley 998 still sitting in storage at Wenona yard.

CM 5175 takes a day off on a cloudy Sunday afternoon at Wenona yard.

CMGN 8905 sits at the head of the deadline at Wenona yard, waiting for its next call to duty.

I don't care what the sign says. It'll always be Central Michigan to me.

Minnesota Northern GP9 #1471 sits in the deadline aw Central Michigan's Wenona yard in Bay City.

Amtrak 126 brings a combined westbound Blue Water/Petoskey Northern Arrow (Private car excursion) into the statin at East Lansing.

Well,/kind of. Amtrak 32 sits between the consist of the normal Blue Water, and the Petoskey Northern Arrow excursion trainset, sitting at the East Lansing station.

The consist of the Petoskey Northern Arrow, which was tacked onto the end of Amtrak 365 in Durand. The train is on the final part.of its round trip journey from Chicago to Petoskey, MI.

A BNSF SD70MAC leads an eastbound Powder River coal train along Lansing Road, near Snow road yard.

The combined Blue Water/Northern Arrow heads west pnst the west end of GTW's Snow Road yard, near the tiny town of Millett, Michigan.

The combined Amtrak Blue Water/Petoskey Northern Arrow rolls around the curve just west of the Purina Elevator at Millett.

The power for NS B30 idles at Lansing's Saginaw Yard, while the train's,crew gets a little time off.

The power for NS B30 sits at Saginat Yard, while their crew takes a short rest.

CSXT 488 leads Q327-09 west on the straightaway between East Lansing and Lansing, approaching the bridge at Aurelius Road.

CN 5522 leads Train 394 past MP 229, at "downtown" Haslett.

CN 394

Soo Line 6035 and 6059 (SD60M) lead CP X500 up the hill west of Harrison road, on CSX.

CP X500

CP X500 rockets up the hill just west of Webberville, near the ADM elevator.

Soo Line 6035 leads CP X500 across the switch to Webberville's ADM Grain silos, one of the largest elevators on the Plymouth Sub.

CP X500

CN 2411 leads an eastbound Manifest through the trees near Potter Park, on the east side of Lansing.

A lone UP Tunnel Motor heads east past the Amtrak station, heading for Durand or Flint.

UP 2853 heads east across Harrison road.

This one had us (Dane, Steven and I) pretty well stumped. It had been posted on railroadfan.com that this was to be the power for CN 394 on this day. We're not sure if this auctually was 394, but if it was, they forgot something...... BNSF 4170 leads a GP60B past the station.

CN 394 (?) We'll never know...

CN 2632 leads a westbound train across Harrison road and past the platform at the Amtrak station. In the background, we see a hawk flying over the train for a better look.

This would be the first of three recent encounters that I have had with this unit.

My favorite P42, Amtrak 28, is at the point of train 364 on this cloudy, slightly chilly August evening.

Amtrak's eastbound Blue Water sits at the East Lansing station with #28 on the point.

CN 5648 leads train 398 under I-69, just east of Cory Yard.

CN 398

Among the railroad equipment owned by Lansing's Board of Water and Light (Power company) is this transfer caboose, which is kept at their Erickson power plant on the southwest side of Lansing, near Millett. The caboose is normally on display at the end of the Erickson spur, but every November it is transported to downtown Lansing for display at "Silver Bells in the City". While I've seen this caboose hundreds of times, this is the first time I have photographed it.

CSX 8427 leads Q326 through Okemos.

CSX Q326-15

An Eastbound CN train, headed by a GCFX SD40-3, heels into the curve at the MSU Pedestrian crossing near MP 224.