After having just receved there five blocks to head down the Lincoln Secondary, CSXT 222 leads Q30501 off the Conrail SA, and past Delray tower on its trip back to Walbridge, Oh.

In this March 1979 image, a GTW employee fills the sand box of GP9 4440. Still in black and red, this GP9 and sister 4444 were my two "shadows" - the units I seemed to see the most way back then. ... (more)

About to clatter over the diamonds at Milwaukee Junction, GTW GP9 4914 (former passenger engine; note "torpedo tube" air tanks on the roof) is caught on this fine June day in 1979. What's interest... (more)

An NS high hood unit works a cut of intermodal cars on the southwest side of Detroit.

Former N&W cabooses have found a home on local train LB53 out of Oakwood Yard near Detroit. They are used on long backup moves between rail yards in the area.

Norfolk Southern 5254 leads a local job through the Delray Section of Detroit near Foreman Avenue on its return trip to Oakwood Yard in nearby Melvindale.

CP 8792 leads Norfolk Southern trackage rights train 25T through the Delray neighborhood of Detroit during its journey to Bensenville Yard near Chicago.

A former Conrail GP38-2 leads CSX Y194 past Delray Tower in Detroit for more headroom while switching out a nearby scrap yard.

CN 5773 leads Train 145 off the Conrail Shared Assets main and onto the NS main at Delray Junction in Detroit. Its destination of Oakwood Yard lies one mile ahead.

You have to love these ex-Southern GP38s with the bell on the long hood.

Canadian Pacific 8822 is leading train 529 towards the NS Bridge near Foreman Avenue in Detroit.

A Richard Beal photo: Livernois Yard ready tracks have a nice looking ex-Reading GP30 in the line today

Detroit Connecting 9 is pulling through Milwaukee Junction in Detroit with scrap gondolas picked up from the nearby East Yard in Hamtramck. DCON operates over former GTW Trackage in some rough and... (more)