We have some more exciting news from this weekend! In addition to the arrival of our new locomotive last week, our General Motors GMDH-3 prototype demonstrator spoke its first words in years on Saturday. The GMDH is a extremely unique one of a kind locomotive that was designed for export, and was sent overseas as a demo unit before returning to North America. Powered by a 2 stroke Detroit Diesel 8V-71 engine it has a exhaust note that sounds quite odd, and is a smaller cousin to large EMD engines powering many freight locomotives to this day. This was just…

We have some exciting news to share! This morning saw the arrival of a new locomotive at the Southern Michigan Railroad. “Little Red” as it was called at its former home, was a plant switcher at the DuPont Washington Works facility in Washington, WV. It will be numbered #2022 to celebrate our 40th anniversary of the SMRS this year. #2022 is a General Electric 45 ton switching locomotive, built in April of 1952. We plan to have “Little Red” working in revenue service this summer working alongside our normal power WM #75. This welcome addition to our fleet would not…