This isn’t about one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs—althought it could be . . .
On the eve of my 38th birthday, I gazed across the Peel Basin on the Lachine Canal in Montreal toward the rising autumn sun. Photographer Tim Doherty and I were on the last day of an epic trip to Montreal.
As we awaited the arrival of VIA Rail’s The Ocean from Halifax, I worked with my Contax G2 rangefinder to compose a view of the grain elevators on the far side of the water, making the most of the reflections in the still morning light.
This slide was among the hundreds from that trip that had sat in the dark until a few days ago. One of the benefits of film is that you can leave processed images unattended for decades without risk of losing them to a hard drive failure.
My pictures of the long distance Budd train are pretty nice too.
Fujichrome slide exposed using a Contax G2 rangefinder on October 24, 2004.
The old Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division is a favorite stretch of railroad.
I first visited this location on the heavily traveled east-west trunk route back in 1988 with my old pal TSH.
In November 2001, Mike Gardner and I were on a week-long photograph blitz of Pennsylvania and paused a Mifflin for a few hours to make photos of the action.
A Norfolk Southern eastward freight led by a former Conrail DASH8-40C rolls by the old Pennsylvania Railroad station at Mifflin, PA.
I exposed this Fujichrome color slide using my Contax G2 rangefinder fitted with a 28mm Zeiss Biogon lens. The Zeiss lens was extremely sharp from corner to corner while offering exceptional color rendition.
