A shunting freight train triggers the grade-crossing
Approaching the Port Huron Station, illuminated sign for the early morning (just after 6:00am) departure of the Blue Water
The Blue Water, Charger destination signs already cued up for Chicago sits on the station platform just beyond the bumper blocks
Looking up at Charger #4625 as it has layovers on the platform at Port Huron
The Coach Class Door, closest to the locomotive is the only one open for boarding passengers
The Venture Coach Car and back of Charger #4625, with the logos of the various state DOTs, all purchased under the Obama-era Recovery act and owned by the State of Illinois
The Arrivals and Departures board for PTH - CHI in the waiting room, very 1980s
The Venture Coaches of the Blue Water wait to leave Port Huron in the dawn light
Sunrise on the station's picnic table
Looking down the platform as the sun rises
A platform sign at the currently empty Venture coaches
Looking down the platform towards the maintenance building
Passengers approach the only open door to board at the very back of the train
Inside the tiny station waiting room, Restrooms or Tickets (closed)?
The modern fixed armrest seating in the otherwise very dated waiting room at Port Huron
Information and literature line the walls at Port Huron, there is a turned off TV by the water fountains
Benches in one corner of the depot, it is empty because most passengers have already boarded the train (I couldn't take photos earlier when it was full of Amish)
The baggage scale and double set of doors out to the platform
