A post relating to the Southern Michigan Railroad Society (SMRS)
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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—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—Leaving home rails
A cold winter fog is in the air on the morning of 10 December 1985 at the interchange yard next to Diann Tower, near Dundee, Michigan. A Grand Trunk Western train is travelling south on the former-DT&I main line, trailed […]
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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—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 […]
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Clinton Crossing
The Southern Michigan Railroad Society signed the contract to purchase Conrail’s Clinton Branch between Lenawee Junction and Clinton, Michigan in 1985. At this time there were no full-size trains on the line, and operations were handled using railroad motor cars. […]
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Photo day—Alcos in the snow
It is 22 December 1985, and Lenawee County Railroad #2 “George Crane” has just spotted former-Ann Arbor Railroad RS-2s #301 and #303 (carrying reporting marks “SMRX”) on the west leg of the wye at Lenawee Junction, Michigan for delivery to […]
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Switching at the Junction
Looking like a scene from the 1960s, this photograph was taken at Lenawee Junction, Michigan on the Lenawee County Railroad on 03 November 1986. The LCRC is switching equipment of the Southern Michigan Railroad following a weekend display in Blissfield […]
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November morning in Clinton
On the morning of 03 November 1987, the Southern Michigan Railroad’s (SMRS) Plymouth switcher #57 is warming up in front of the group’s headquarters/museum building in Clinton, Michigan. Lettered for the long-defunct Ohio & Morenci Railroad, #57 was SMR’s only […]