A post relating to railfanning
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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, […]
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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 […]