A post relating to history
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Photo day—Slipping into Tecumseh
Evidence of recent snowfall abounds as Conrail GP-7 #5903 approaches the Bidwell Street crossing, marking its arrival in Tecumseh, Michigan on March 27, 1982. The train is coming from Clinton on Conrail’s Clinton Secondary Track, and is bound for Toledo, […]
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Photo day—Summer of the black switcher
On a summer August afternoon in 1976, Edward Hodges photographed Conrail locomotive #8922 leading the northbound “Clinton Local”, nearing Staib Road between Tecumseh and Clinton, Michigan. Conrail is already four months old at this point, but on this remote branch […]
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Trundling through Tecumseh
In a scene that repeated itself over the course of more than 150 years, a freight train moves slowly through Tecumseh, MI, running on a narrow strip of right-of-way on the east side of Evans Street. For many years this […]
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Photo day—Guarding the diamonds
Lingering snow on the ground indicates that spring is late when Edward Hodges took this photo at Raisin Center, Michigan on 09 April 1982. We are looking east on the Norfolk & Western Railway’s Detroit District at the point where […]
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Photo day—LCRC switches the Southern Michigan
During the early years of the Southern Michigan Railroad Society in the mid-1980s, the line from Lenawee Jct. to Clinton, Mich. was already severed at Raisin Center by the removal of the crossing diamonds with the Norfolk & Western Railway’s […]
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Photo day—George Crane crosses the diamonds
The Lenawee County Railroad Company’s Alco S2 #2, named “George Crane”, arrives in Adrian, Michigan, returning from a run to the Conrail interchange at Lenawee Jct. It is 08 December 1982, and the train is crossing the diamond with the […]
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Photo day—Extra 301 North at Lenawee Junction
Flying white “extra” flags, a peculiar set of equipment crosses Lenawee Highway and enters the former-Clinton Branch trackage of the Southern Michigan Railroad Society at Lenawee Junction, MI on a cold January morning in 1986. The move marks the end […]
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Photo day—Passing Dexter
As members of the Ann Arbor Model Railroad Club look on, Conrail train DREL-7 (Detroit-Elkhart) passes the former Michigan Central Railroad depot in Dexter, Michigan on the evening of 07 June 1989. Edward Hodges was on hand to capture this […]
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Photo day—Leaving home rails
A cold winter fog is in the air on the morning of 10 December 1985 at the interchange yard next to Diann Tower, near Dundee, Michigan. A Grand Trunk Western train is travelling south on the former-DT&I main line, trailed […]
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Photo day—5778 vs. the elements
A late spring snowstorm was underway when Edward Hodges photographed Conrail’s southbound “Clinton Local” on 18 March 1977. The train is just approaching the Staib Road crossing, located between Clinton and Tecumseh, Michigan. Conrail has been in existence for almost […]