Detroit and Mackinac RS-2 4610 waits at Historic Railroad shops at Tawas City Michigan.

It was a bitterly cold day when this photo was taken. Five minutes earlier was a brief blinding snowfall, which had moved off over the Straits of Mackinac.

Westbound train leaves Alpena for the Paxton shale quarry seven miles distant. Line was torn out in the late 1990's.