A post relating to Conrail
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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—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—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—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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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 […]
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Jackson’s lonely RPO car
In early 1989, I drove to Jackson, Michigan to do an interview for a university journalism assignment. Afterwards, with a few frames left on the roll of film to use up, I drove by the Amtrak depot looking for something […]