A post relating to railfanning
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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 […]
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Summer switching in Adrian
Forty-one years ago, on a sunny 23 June 1983, I was in Adrian, Michigan and had a chance to photograph the Lenawee County Railroad doing some switching in the area of the their main office and engine house on E. […]
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Photo day—Conrail Caboose Hop
Conrail GP-8 #5457 and caboose #19865 cross Chicago Blvd. (M-50) in downtown Tecumseh, Michigan on 08 October 1980. Edward Hodges photographed this “caboose hop” (a locomotive and caboose running without any freight cars). The Budd Company at Clinton had stopped […]
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Photo day—Southbound Local
On an early spring day in April 1979, Edward Hodges captured Conrail’s “Clinton Local” southbound at milepost 31, a few miles north of Tecumseh, Michigan. The tired old ex-New York Central GP-7 is pulling a string of boxcars loaded with […]
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Jackson then and now
by Douglas N. Leffler February 28, 2024 The weather was so mild tonight, I decided to go down to the Jackson depot and shoot a few images of westbound Amtrak 355. I used the iPhone on a tripod for the […]
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Photo day—Passing the paperwork
The Keokuk Junction Railway’s LaHarpe Turn is arriving in Keokuk, Iowa on 09 February 1992. Conductor Steve Pratt passes the train’s paperwork to clerk Mike Mealey at the Main St. crossing. The train is coming off the Mississippi River bridge […]
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Photo day—Spring Local
There were only traces of snow on the ground on 12 April 1977 when Ed Hodges photographed Conrail’s Clinton Local switching behind the Budd Company plant on the south side of Clinton, Michigan. Conrail has already existed for over one […]
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Photo day—Grass Lake blue
A Conrail auto parts train was heading westbound at Mt. Hope Road near Grass Lake, MI when Edward Hodges captured it on 25 March 1981. The location, milepost 64.3 (from Detroit), was the location of a dragging equipment detector. There […]