In March 1999, I made a day trip to Paris from Brussels on the Thalys.
Among my visions for the day was to duplicate views of Metro Line 6 with the Eiffel Tower similar to those that my father made back in 1960.
Working with my Nikon N90S, I exposed this wideangle view from above the banks of the Seine.
While the sun was out, dark clouds would soon pelt hail across the Parisian landscape.
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On January 13, 2015, Jack May and I explored NJ Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system to make photographs.
I made this view on Fujichrome Provia100F using my Canon EOS 3 with a 40mm pancake lens—a winning combination for contemporary Transit photos with historical format continuity. (A fancy way of saying, I exposed photos of streetcars on film back in the day, and I still do!).
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Exchange Place—1982.
As a teenager living in rural Monson, Massachusetts, I thought Jersey City was a fascinating urban wonderland.
It was gritty, dirty, decayed and very urban with lots of history.
A virtual playground!
I made this photo at Exchange Place station on the Port Authority Trans-Hudson former Pennsylvania Railroad controlled Hudson & Manhattan rapid transit route between New York City and New Jersey terminals.
As a photograph it isn’t my finest, but I feel I captured my sense of wonder about PATH.
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On a visit to Germany in 1998, I traveled by interurban tram from Heidelberg to Mannheim where I made this photo on Fujichrome Sensia 100 using a Nikon F3 with 135mm lens.
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In February 2010, I visited Toronto, Ontario with photographers Pat Yough and Chris Guss.
It was extra cold, but we made some stunning photos in the clear frosty light.
These view of TTC CLRVs (Canadian Light Rail Vehicles) were exposed using a Canon EOS-3 and Fujichrome slide film.
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Working with an Nikon N90s loaded with Fujichrome, I made this view of a Peterwitt streetcar on the streets of Milan back in February 2000.
I like the doctored sign at upper right.
A little humor in a photo can go a long way!
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On my list of 100 transit cities is Utrecht in the Netherlands.
On May 22, 1996, I exposed this pan photo of a tram on the move in Utrecht using a Nikormat FTN with 105mm f1.8 fixed prime telephoto and FujiChrome Provia 100 slide film.
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In 1990, this was just around the corner.
One October evening I set up on Duboce Avenue in San Francisco with my then new F3T and 35mm PC lens (perspective control lens, which allows for movement of the front element) and made this view using Kodachrome 25 color slide film.
Difficult to believe that was nearly 30 years ago!
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I had about five hours before I needed to catch a flight from Logan, so I checked my bags and went into Boston.
My goal was to photograph the old MBTA Green Line elevated near North Station before it was closed and removed.
This was way back in June 1999—More than 20 years ago.
Today this portion of the old elevated is just a memory.
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Occasionally I aim for theme convergence.
I’ve been running a series featuring 100 transit cities and a few days back I features a tram in Berlin advertising beer. Yesterday, I discussed photography at dusk. So today, I’m featuring a beer advertizing tram at dusk in the eastern Slovakian city of Kosice.
A purist might call me out on the fact that this tram is preserved and inactive in the photo, therefore might not qualify as a legitimate transit image. I do, however, have slides of Tatra trams working Kosice streets. I’ll need to locate and scan them.
This photo was exposed on Fujichrome with conventional daylight balance. I made no color correction or alterations in scanning or post processing.
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I’ve made numerous photos of Sacramento California’s Regional Transit District light rail system, all of them on film.
Here are two scans from color slides that were exposed nearly 19 years apart.
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In a city laced with railway lines, perhaps one of the most obscure is the light rail line that I call ‘the Tokyo Trolley’.
So here in the land of Fuji, I exposed this Kodachrome view on April 22, 1997, of the trolley leaving a private right of way and beginning a section of street trackage.
While I only have a few photos of the Tokyo Trolley, I’m quite pleased to have taken the time to seek out this unusual Japanese railway operation.
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