PERE MARQUETTE #1225 is hauling a freight train near King Road at Owosso.

From my travel album, my photo for this weekend: here Pere Marquette No. 1225, Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio but in 2025 will be reletter Chesapeake & Ohio C&O... Thank you David ( r. i. p... (more)

After a day of testing in preparation for the winter's North Pole Express trains, the Pere Marquette 1225 sits on the turntable at the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan. With the fir... (more)

A less common railfan perspective for the GLC's geeps, we're looking out the open door of the Owosso shops at the deadline, headed up by 391. This GP35 has since been reactivated. Photo taken ... (more)

Pere Marquette 1225 The Polar Express on its first night run of 2023 from Owosso Michigan to Ashley (The North Pole). After a two year project of reconditioning bearings and axles and a brand new ... (more)

With a puff of 'signature' blue EMD smoke, two GP35s and an SD35 swing off of the old Ann Arbor main and onto the Grand Trunk. The Annie was abandoned between Owosso and Durand in the 70s in favor... (more)

Originally Ann Arbor. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

CSX 1 Leads the CSXT Executive train Westbound through farmland in Lake Odessa Michigan. They are on the way across Michigan , back to Chicago after a full loop from Chicago to Toledo , Detroit an... (more)

After a day of testing in preparation for the winter's North Pole Express trains, the Pere Marquette 1225 sits on the turntable at the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan. With the fir... (more)

The Great Lakes Central's OSTN pulls out on to the connection from the GLC's Cadillac District to the HESR's Owosso Sub as it puts together its southbound train in the GLC yard east of town in Owo... (more)

#765 shares some night moves with #1225.

Highball!

After a blistering cold morning in the city of Owosso, the morning crew of the Pere Marquette 1225 has gone on duty to begin building the train for the day's North Pole Express runs. With the Cyli... (more)

A pair of former MRL SD35's lead the Great Lakes Central's OSTN as it departs out of Owasso, Michigan and heads north towards Cadillac. In the background is the former Woodard Furniture Company bu... (more)

The Steam Railroading Institute Pere Marquette 2-8-4 1225 is seen departing Owosso, MI amid steadily falling snow on December 18. The train is running as the third-last North Pole Express for the... (more)