A pair of EMD's momentarily pause above Waterman Street as night falls over the heavily industrialized south side of Detroit. This train closed our brief tour of Detroit, as we vetoed the idea of walking around with cameras and tripods under the cover of darkness in a notoriously rough town. As a result, this is the product of one of the slowest hand held exposures that I've attempted. It's a different world out there...

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On a chalky December evening, a high-hood SD40-2 works one of Detroit's many rail yards. The engineer on the 1628 gives a hesitant wave, likely surprised to see a couple of railfans trackside in such a rough neighbourhood.

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It is a gloomy day in Southwest Detroit and all is quiet at CSX's Rougemere Yard. On the locomotive track, CSX 1301 (an NRE 3GS21B) rests between assignments alongside a variety of GE products and SD40 rebuilds.

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GTW 4920 ducks under remnants from Henry Ford's failed electrification project between Flat Rock and River Rouge, MI during the late 1920s.

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In 1914 Detroit's Michigan Central station was one of the world's grandest railroad monuments. Just days shy of a hundred years after it's construction the station still stands, but with it's crumbling concrete and broken windows are reflections of a lost America.

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