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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—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 […]
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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—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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Summer switching in Adrian
Forty-one years ago, on a sunny 23 June 1983, I was in Adrian, Michigan and had a chance to photograph the Lenawee County Railroad doing some switching in the area of the their main office and engine house on E. […]
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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—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—Tecumseh layover
On a hot summer afternoon in 1988, the Southern Michigan Railroad Society’s train has arrived in downtown Tecumseh. Passengers have gotten off to walk about the town, and there will be a small break before the train starts its return […]