A post relating to photographer/writer Edward Hodges
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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—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—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—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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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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Photo day—Flash of Red
Norfolk & Western caboose #555004 was photographed by Edward Hodges at track speed on an eastbound freight headed for Detroit, Michigan on 05 March 1977. The exact location is not noted, but is thought to be east of Adrian, […]
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Portrait of a local
In the late afternoon light of 09 December 1981, Edward Hodges photographed Conrail’s northbound Clinton Local crossing Bidwell Street in Tecumseh, Michigan. The local is running on the Clinton Secondary Track and originated at Air Line Yard in Toledo, Ohio. […]