#durand

Here was an eastbound freight headed towards the Flint Michigan yard. After that I am not sure where it was heading. As you can see, all the train nuts were waiting for this one. There are more behind me, as you will see in the last pic.

This is one of the few places I know of where you can be this close to a moving train.

Being this close gives you an idea of how enormous these locomotives are.

This long train came out of the Flint yard and was traveling towards Grand Rapids or some other point at the south west area of Michigan

There was a bunch of railfans in front of me and to the left of me. The train station is also to the left of where I am standing.

This one was a long load of tank cars of ethanol and it stretched for over a mile (about 2 km).

These cars all look the same but some are a little larger in diameter or length and the capacity numbers are written there on the side of the car body.

Call it graffiti or tags or vandalism, here are a couple of decorated car haulers I saw that are worthy of sharing.

Here we have a bunch of train nuts, waiting at the Durand Michigan train station, anxiously waiting for the next train to come around the curve. Yeah, @welldigger62 was there too holding the camera 😂

Just got back and I am sorting through pics now. We saw a bunch of trains today, so I will have more to share tomorrow.