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Photo day—Passing Palmyra
There was already snow on the ground when Edward Hodges photographed the Lenawee County Railroad’s RS-1 #3 “Howard D. White” passing Palmyra, Michigan on 13 November 1984. Palmyra was the site of a station on the New York Central’s “Old […]
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Photo day—On home rails
On 27 February 1982, Conrail GP-7 #5903 is at the front of a northbound freight train on Conrail’s Clinton Secondary line, just south of Tecumseh, Michigan. Have derailed near this point on the previous day due to an iced-over crossing, […]
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Photo day—Alco in Defiance
It’s a freezing morning on 19 February 1990, and Indiana Hi-Rail Corporation #352 is on its way with a cut of cars to the CSXT interchange in Defiance, Ohio. Conductor Rance Greider rides the pilot, preparing to alight and throw […]
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Photo day—Switching in St Louis
I lived in St. Louis from 1994 until 1999. Close to my first apartment in the Soulard neighborhood was the Manufacturers Railway Company (MRS), which was wholly owned by the Anheuser-Busch brewery. The MRS primarily switched the A-B brewery, but […]
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Photo day—Black and Red at Raisin Center
On a gray day 44 years ago—11 December 1980—Edward Hodges photographed the Norfolk & Western Railway’s F-52D local passing through Raisin Center, Michigan, the crossing with Conrail’s Clinton Secondary Track. The F-52D was a local train that worked the former-Wabash […]