Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Ballast Cars at Iron Mountain, Michigan, 8-1948

ID# 37,440

THE WOLVERINE

ID # 24,497

THE WOLVERINE

Amtrak's first F40PH, No. 200, passes with a set of new Superliner cars at Ann Arbor's beautiful stone station, now a restaurant, before continuing to detroit, MI.

Photo by Ronald N. Johnson

GRAND TRUNK AND WESTERN NO. 6328

ID # 1,105

GRAND TRUNK AND WESTERN NO. 6328

In this photograph No. 6328, a mighty 1-8-4 on the Grand Trunk Western, is stopping to take water at Pontiac, Michigan, early one evening in 1958. At that time, most of America's railroad mileage was already operated by diesel-electric locomotives, but the G.T.W., the American subsidiary of Canadian National Railways, continued to wheel tonnage with steam engines. The G.T.W. was even pulling smoke-plumed commuter trains daily in and out of Detroit, right past the headquarters of General Motors, builder of most diesel engines. In fact, the "Trunk" seemed to be so firmly committed to steam in those Days that it occas-ionally borrowed coalburners from the Illinois Central and Burlington roads to keep its freight and passenger trains rolling. In 1960 it finally joined the diesel parade.

DON WOOD, TRAINS MAGAZINE