A post relating to the Penn Central Transportation Company
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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—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—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—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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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—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 […]