After completely failing here on Thanksgiving due to less than half of my flashes going off I was determined to retry it... however CN threw a curve ball at me. What is almost always a night time ... (more)
Charlotte Southern #3 is seen here in its namesake city warming up in preparation for the sold-out 7pm Murder Mystery Dinner Train. Sandwiched between two 6-foot snow banks, the GE 44-tonner and i... (more)
Cruzing behind a 395 Job, Santa rolls through Charlotte on the way to Battle Creek.
With CEBX 800 in tow, Train O915 moves at 15 MPH through the Michigan countryside. CEBX 800 carry's a 675 Ton Reactor Vessel headed for a refinery in Kansas. This "Schnabel Car" is the largest rai... (more)
Charlotte Southern 3 moves the dinner train off the small run-around track as the crew works more cars into storage on the line south of town.
Charlotte Southern #3 moves some NOKL cars into storage on the trackage leading South East out of Charlotte. Here the 44 toner grabs an NOKL Gon and pulls toward the runaround track to jockey for ... (more)
A small locomotive for a small railroad. Charlotte Southern 44-Ton #3 is resting in the siding near Hayes Green Beach Hospital on a quite windy day with the cars used on the railroads dinner train... (more)
CN 5602 leads a colorful consist and a train of mixed freight into the late evening sun outside of Charlotte, MI.
A pair of IC SD40s lead a CN autorack train south through Charlotte. Happy Thanksgiving!
An eastbound train crosses the New York Central, Jackson to Grand Rapids branch at the GTW Charlotte station. This station was manned and the interlocking was still active in September of 1977.
Snow is drifting down though the sun shines brightly! This is the GTW version of CN's Santa Train, operating Pontiac to Battle Creek this day.
Westbound coal empties passing lead to Charlotte Southern Rwy.
Empty coal train passes through Charlotte, MI on the CN