Detroit Area
Author: Alex Bogert
Photo Gallery
GTW 5815 crosses Dearborn Ave.
GTW 5858 crosses Dearborn Ave @ Delray Jct.
CSXT 6605 rests at Rougemere Yard.
Conrail 9022 @ Delray, MI. Not your everyday set of locomotives. Notice spelling of 'Conrail' on the locomotive.... Someone forgot the "I"...
Ex DT&I SD38 252 passes Delray tower. Sorry for bad quality, only copy I have left and the cat chewed it.
GTW 5856 in OLS paint.
CV 5808 rolls past Delray tower.
An old B&O GP30 rests at CSX Rougemere yard.
GTW 5820 and 5709 rest @ Pontiac Yard.
GTW caboose 75065 rests @ Pontiac Yard
An NS slug passes through Delray Jct.
Detroit Edison 001 @ Delray Jct.
GTW 5705 passes Delray Tower.
GTW 5824 leads a BN coal train past Birmingham Station.
GTW 5853 rolls past Birmingham Station
GTW 6414 rolls through Delray Jct.
Ex DT&I 215 passes Delray Tower
Ex DT&I 252 (a rare SD38) passes Delray tower.
Conrail GP9 7592 + slug wait for their next assignment.
Detroit Edison 016 @ Birmingham Station.
These cars were involved in a derailment on the GTW Mt. Clemens Sub in Warren, MI. A few of these cars fell off of an overpass into the I-696 expressway. No one was hurt.
These cars were involved in a derailment on the GTW Mt. Clemens Sub in Warren, MI. A few of these cars fell off of an overpass into the I-696 expressway. No one was hurt.
These cars were involved in a derailment on the GTW Mt. Clemens Sub in Warren, MI. A few of these cars fell off of an overpass into the I-696 expressway. No one was hurt.
These cars were involved in a derailment on the GTW Mt. Clemens Sub in Warren, MI. A few of these cars fell off of an overpass into the I-696 expressway. No one was hurt.
Ex DT&I 420 passes Birmingham station.
GTW 5852 passes Birmingham station.
GTW 6413 heads toward Pontiac.
GTW 6210 leads one crazy lash up past Birmingham Station. They just dont run consists like this anymore... Sorry about the person in the shot, I was 10 years old when I took this.
GTW 4900 sppeds past Birmingham Station.
A old crossing signal that used to protgct Franklin St. along the former Grand Trunk "Dequindre Cut". Signal was removed In spring 2004
This*beautiful old WRRS crossing signal once protected*Woodbridge St. on the abanoned GTW "Dequindre Cut". Signal was removed in spring 2004.
3 diamonds sit in the middle of Dequindre & Gouin Streets behind the old Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works along the Detroit riverfront. This track was lald here in the late 1800s. Photo was taken on the GTWs ROW, The 2 track ROW belonged to the Detroit Terminal RR. Sad to say, these historic tracks are in the process/of being removed.
GTW 5922 sits with DW&P 5905 @ the Detroit Edison Ecorse plant
GTW 5819 rests at Scheaffer tower. Photo taken with permission.
BNSF 6133 rounds the curve behind Durand Station.
GTW GP9R switches cars @ East Yard.
GTW 4625 rests @ Schaeffer tower.
The only GP9R with GTW/OLS paint scheme... The 4633 has since been repainted.
The only GP9R with GTW/OLS paint scheme... The 4633 has since been repainted.
A moving view of GTW 40 foot box #515260s coupler.
GTW 4623 & 4630 rest at Scheaffer tower.
GTW caboose 77058 sits between CTA "L" car 4428, and CSS&SB car 11 as part of the Clinton Township Parks & Recs "Polar Express"
MTMs South Shore car 11 heads toward the I-94 overpass.
Michigan Transit Museums ex USAF Baldwin #4040 crosses Lenfesty St.
NS 9819 Waits for her crew at Sterling Yard.
ADBF 836 works the former GTW "Dequindre Cut" line, south of Milwaukee Junction in Detroit.
A string of gondolas sit along side the abandoned Great Northern Elevator on the Dequindre Cut.
This old 86 ft. car has seen better days. Car was scrapped later on that week.