For decades diesels manufactured in Schenectady (and in later years Montreal) pulled trains across this river. With the day of the Alco over on the Lake State Railway, EMD products now rule.
Gone. After becoming the first railroad in the US to completely dieselize, the D&M (and successor LSRC) relied on Alco power. Currently, only one Alco (C425 1280, trailing) remains. This photo fro... (more)
Former Detroit & Mackinac RS-2 NO. 469 runs down Fletcher Street in downtown Alpena. A few years after this photo was taken, the mill to which this track ran switched to trucks, the locomotive was... (more)