A post relating to railfanning
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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 […]
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Photo day—Grain train on the Carrothers
Two cast crossbucks stand guard as Conrail #7911 leads a southbound unit grain train down the ex-PRR Carrothers Branch in the winter of 1982. The train was captured at the North Pemberville Road crossing, between Walbridge and Woodville, OH. By […]
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Photo day—Delta blues
A Conrail manifest freight train rolls west under the DT&I overpass at Delta, Ohio on 23 June 1983. The train is passing two old interurban cars, which at the time were kept on a section of former-Toledo & Indiana Railroad […]
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Photo day—Winter in Clinton
On a snowy day in early 1988, New York Central caboose #21692 awaits its next move on the Southern Michigan Railroad at Clinton, Michigan. I was trying to recreate a vintage railroad scene here, so I included the Lake Shore […]
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Photo day—Conrail in Adrian
In the spring of 1977, Conrail SW9 switcher #8987 was photographed standing next to the CR freight office in Adrian, Michigan. The unit still wears its Penn Central paint, having not yet received Conrail blue. Photos of Conrail trains in […]
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Photo day—Snowy day at Air Line
January of 1982 was a good time for me. I had recently received my first driving license, and for Christmas in 1981 I received my first Pentax SLR camera. I was 17 and ready for some real railfanning! The problem […]
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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, […]