M420W 3504 takes a break in the heated stall of the Alpena Roundhouse.

Sitting out in the sun by the diesel shed looking pretty, former BC Rail M420W 647 looks to all the world like she's still in British Columbia working for her former owner, and not halfway across ... (more)

Go MLW! GO! With the plow in the middle of the state, the Lake State ran a lone unit a short ways through town to clear the way, seen here blasting through a snowbank and smoking it up. Alpena has... (more)

Installing the F.R.E.D.

The power from the inbound road freight was parked on the wye for the weekend enabling the photographer to frame the power using the remains of old NDYX cars. Photo taken with permission.

M420W 3500 rests inside of the roundhouse. Photo taken with permission.

On a cool, crisp November morning recently reinstated M420W 3504 shoves back on the wye, heading to the roundhouse for the weekend. To the left of the locomotive is one of the remaining D&M troop ... (more)

LSRC M420W 3504 returns after sitting in the Saginaw yard awaiting repairs for quite a while. Most thought that the old Canadian girl was going to be scrapped but to everybody's delight she's back... (more)

LSRC 798 leads a shorter train 326 South in the last rays of light, pulling out of yard limits.

The leaves are just beginning to change color and fall along the Huron Sub in Alpena. Here we see LSRC M420W pulling past some color and the ATi Corp.

DL 2045 hustles train PT-98 southbound along the Delaware towards its interchange destination of Slateford Junction.

The race is on! Delaware-Lackawanna and Steamtown crews work on rerailing CP 2317 as my brother continues to fix a flat tire at the Steamtown gate which was locked before we could leave. Th... (more)

LSRC 3500 leads a three pack of mixed paint down 10th ave in Alpena. The train is destined for Bay City, MI.

LSRC 3500, still in Kelowna Pacific paint, leads train 326 South through downtown Alpena.

LSRC 3500 is framed by the brush.