Jim Hulsebus Photography

Chasing D708

D708 ready to leave Wyoming Yard at 9:00 am. D708 will run from Wyoming Yard to Sunfield, MI and return, dropping off and picking up cars along the way.

D708 crossing the Thornapple River

Coming into Lake Odessa

At the bottom of the hill in Lake Odessa in the fog.

Common checkered skipper at Sunfield

After switching cars at Woodbury, D708 arrives at Sunfield

Old Church building in Mulliken, I believe.

East of Sunfield, the engines run around the train to head back west

Running around the cars

Workers repair a switch at the Lake Odessa elevator.

Old building in Lake Odessa

D708 drops some cars at the bottom of the hill at Lake Odessa while it switches the elevator.

Filling a wagon throws up a cloud of dust. There's a car beyond the wagon that has to be pulled too.

Aligning the switches.

Out with the old and in with new. It took a few moves to get the cars where they were supposed to be.

D708 backed down the hill to retrieve the cars they left there. Time for me to head home but D708 had at least one more stop in Alto to drop off cars loaded with pipe before they head back to Wyoming Yard.

Grand Rapids to Sunfield

All images copyright Jim Hulsebus 2006