May 24, 1997: Conrail had just two years remaining of independant Class-1 operations. The tug of war between CSX and Norfolk Southern to tear apart Big Blue had already begun.

This is among my favorite photos of Conrail SD80MACs. The 30 20-cylinder beasts built by EMD were only purchased new by Conrail. Many were assigned to the Boston Line.

I made this photo of Boston-Chicago intermodal train TV-9 approaching the famous ‘Twin Ledges’—dual rock cuttings on Washington Hill near Middlefield, Massachusetts.

Fuji had only recently introduced a new 100 ISO slide film called Astia. This had a warmer color temperature than either Provia or Sensia. This was among my first photographs with the new film. If this photo look familiar it is because I’ve had it published on several occasions in books and magazines.

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