Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: grand trunk

From the Nixon Road end. With lots of sky, and quite a bit of swamp.

Something about that paint scheme.... A GE D9-44CW (Dash-9, which is sort of a generation indicator; 4400 HP, 6-wheel trucks, wide cab). I see that the original paint job on this unit was famously bad . Better, now, but needs a bath. This big feller was parked where I work--State of Michigan Secondary Complex, near Dimondale--on the old Grand Trunk mainline's passing track. Even a decade ago the only "foreign" paint we'd see on GT was CN, which hardly counts, and an occasional IC; nowadays we see virtually everything. Far from ideal shooting conditions, as you can perhaps tell, but I couldn't resist the opportunity. Just a gorgeous loco.

Best LARGE , methinks; shows off my fancy camera, anyway. Canadian National Railway's Cory Yard, just south of Billwood Highway near Dimondale and Potterville, Michigan. This location's on my route to work; it's an easy walk from my office. Cory's not an exciting yard, operationally; all the sorting is done at the GM Delta Assembly Plant's loading facility, which is a couple hundred yards north from where I took this photo. This yard's purpose is to break long trains into shorter segments for GM's purposes, then to reassemble the train after the the cars have been filled with small vans. I presume the yard's named after CN Vice President Mike Cory , who was running their Michigan operations when construction of this facility began.

A southbound CN train (probably it's officially westbound) hurrying down Michigan's Grand Trunk mainline north of Potterville, Michigan. As you can see, there are signals on the tracks, for the trains--but the Windsor Highway crossing is a locally-rare unprotected crossing, so I wasn't really prepared when I and the train arrived more or less simultaneously. Lucky I got any pictures at all; rather pleased with this one.

This picture was shot a mile or so from my workplace. The train's creeping along on the long siding by Lake Interstate (an artifact of the construction of I-69, friends) and will halt before it gets to the crossing. Presumably there was a train coming the other way. I kinda like the blackbird atop the sign....