A post relating to railfanning
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Photo day—obey the signs!
A Southern Michigan Railroad passenger service, led by Plymouth locomotive O&M #57 and caboose NYC #21692 arrives at Brown Street in Tecumseh, Michigan on 06 June 1987. To the right are vintage signs from the New York Central days, providing […]
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Photo day—Fresh paint at Clinton
On a sunny Thanksgiving weekend in 1978, Ed Hodges photographed Conrail’s “Clinton Local” at rest behind the Budd Company in Clinton, Michigan. The train is tied down on the main line, with no crew present. It had arrived from Lenawee […]
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A Working Day on the LCRC
By Mark D. Comstock Photography-The author This article originally appeared in the Winter 1988 edition of “The Cross Tracks”. I have long wanted to follow a working day in the life of our southeast Michigan neighbor, the Lenawee County Railroad. […]
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Photo day—DMU at Bedford St Johns
A two-car DMU stands at St Johns Station in Bedford, England on 26 July 1983. It will shortly depart for the nearby town of Bletchley. Bedford St. Johns was a stub station at this time, with only one platform and […]
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Photo Day—Weekend rest
On a Saturday afternoon in August 1980, Conrail GP-7 #5645 is spending the weekend on the spur into the Budd Company plant in Clinton, MI, at the end of CR’s Clinton Secondary track. It arrived on Friday evening from Lenawee […]
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Photo day—VIA 6420 at Windsor
On the cold morning of 8 December 1990, VIA Rail Canada F40PH-2 #6420 rests at Windsor, Ontario waiting for a departure to Toronto later in the day. To the left can been seen the Renaissance Center in Detroit, and […]
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Atlas gets a delivery of Rock
The time the Rock came to Tecumseh In 1977, an enormous fire destroyed the Hayden Mill, located along the DT&M spur in Tecumseh, Michigan. Following the fire, the property was acquired by Charles J. Steffens, owner of the Atlas Mill […]
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Transfer time at Beaubien
Conrail GP-15-1s #1699 and 1675 lead a southbound transfer run across the Grand Trunk Western diamonds at Beaubien Tower in Detroit, Michigan on 16 June 1990. Beaubien Tower was located on the former-Michigan Central/New York Central Bay City Branch between […]
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Photo day—Switcher on the bridge
Conrail SW-7 switcher #8841 leads a switch run off the the east end of the Maumee River bridge, at CP “Maumee”, on 30 July 1989. At this time Conrail had an intermodal ramp on the Toledo Central Union Terminal property, […]
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Quick visit to the Czech Republic
I visited the Czech Republic several times in the early 1990s. Since then, however, work and lack of time has prevented a return visit (along with the desire to avoid crowds of tourists normally found in Prague!). With the Covid […]