In November 1989, I had my first CTC Board Cover Feature on Conrail’s Boston & Albany.
Ironically, I received my contributor’s copy a few weeks after I’d moved to California.
I found a copy of the magazine yesterday while digging around for a missing notebook from the 1980s.
Sometimes when you look for one thing, you find something else!
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Conrail westbound freight on September 23, 1997.
Looking back, I’ve found that 1997 was an extraordinarily busy year for me photographically. I spent a lot of time traveling and exposed more than 500 rolls of slide film. That’s a lot of slides
This image was made on one of several of my week-long trips to Pennsylvania. On this day I’d followed the old Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division. The railroad was busy and there were lots of opportunity to make photos.
I exposed this vertical view of a westward Conrail freight near the Spruce Creek tunnels using my N90S with an f1.8 105mm lens.
Here’s some suggestions for better photos on dull days: try to work from locations with elevation and crop the sky (as much as possible). Also, if you pan a little, it helps to set the train/locomotive apart from the background and has the effect of improving depth and minimizing the effect of low contrast lighting.
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