A post relating to photographer/writer Edward Hodges
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Photo day—Tiptoeing through Tecumseh
It’s a typical Michigan winter day on 22 January 1981 as the southbound Conrail “Clinton Local” trundles south through Tecumseh, Michigan. Photographer Ed Hodges caught the train just after crossing Chicago Blvd. (M-50) and passing the town fire station. The […]
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Photo day—Highball Blissfield!
On a grey autumn day in Michigan some 45 years ago, Conrail GP-8 #5457 and caboose CR #19865 have entered the “Old Road” at Lenawee Junction, and are departing for Blissfield and Toledo over the Lenawee Highway crossing. It’s November […]
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Photo day—Hard times at the Junction
The leaves were turning on October 6, 1980, when Edward Hodges photographed Conrail’s southbound “Clinton Local” passing Tecumseh Junction, in Tecumseh, Mich. Tecumseh Junction, located at S. Evans and E. Cummins Streets, was where the New York Central’s north/south Jackson […]
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Photo day—Conrail’s Jiffy delivery
On the afternoon of 09 April 1981, Edward Hodges was in Chelsea, Michigan, where he happened upon Conrail’s local switching the Chelsea Milling Company plant. The Chelsea Milling Company is a family-operated business based in Chelsea, Michigan, that has been […]
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LCRC in the yellow era
The Lenawee County Railroad Company was a railroad that generally operated only from Monday to Friday. But photographer Edward Hodges had some luck when he stumbled upon LCRC Alco S2 #1 switching in the Adrian, Mich. yard on Saturday, 31 […]
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Photo day—Summer of the black switcher
On a summer August afternoon in 1976, Edward Hodges photographed Conrail locomotive #8922 leading the northbound “Clinton Local”, nearing Staib Road between Tecumseh and Clinton, Michigan. Conrail is already four months old at this point, but on this remote branch […]
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Photo day—Guarding the diamonds
Lingering snow on the ground indicates that spring is late when Edward Hodges took this photo at Raisin Center, Michigan on 09 April 1982. We are looking east on the Norfolk & Western Railway’s Detroit District at the point where […]
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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 […]