A post relating to the former-LS&MS/NYC/PC/CR/SMRS Jackson (later Clinton) Branch
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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—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—Slipping into Tecumseh
Evidence of recent snowfall abounds as Conrail GP-7 #5903 approaches the Bidwell Street crossing, marking its arrival in Tecumseh, Michigan on March 27, 1982. The train is coming from Clinton on Conrail’s Clinton Secondary Track, and is bound for Toledo, […]
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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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Trundling through Tecumseh
In a scene that repeated itself over the course of more than 150 years, a freight train moves slowly through Tecumseh, MI, running on a narrow strip of right-of-way on the east side of Evans Street. For many years this […]
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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—LCRC switches the Southern Michigan
During the early years of the Southern Michigan Railroad Society in the mid-1980s, the line from Lenawee Jct. to Clinton, Mich. was already severed at Raisin Center by the removal of the crossing diamonds with the Norfolk & Western Railway’s […]
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Photo day—Extra 301 North at Lenawee Junction
Flying white “extra” flags, a peculiar set of equipment crosses Lenawee Highway and enters the former-Clinton Branch trackage of the Southern Michigan Railroad Society at Lenawee Junction, MI on a cold January morning in 1986. The move marks the end […]
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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—Winter in Clinton
On a snowy day in early 1988, New York Central caboose #21692 awaits its next move on the Southern Michigan Railroad at Clinton, Michigan. I was trying to recreate a vintage railroad scene here, so I included the Lake Shore […]