Fujichrome

  • Conrail SD70 Roars West at Batavia!

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    From late 1998 through early 2000, I was almost continuously on the road.

  • Dublin’s DART: Twenty Years Ago.

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    Here’s a late 1990s view on Amiens Street in Dublin in front of Connolly Station.

  • Lower Quadrant Semaphores at St. Erth, Cornwall.

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    April Fools Day many years ago, My father and I visited St. Erth, Cornwall, where I made these Fujichrome Sensia II slides of the lower quadrant semaphores that controlled train movements there.   Tracking the Light Posts Daily.

  • Sunset at Yuba Pass—Frame 37.

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    On the evening of February 9, 1994, I exposed the final frame on 36 exposure roll of a Southern Pacific eastward freight ascending Donner Pass at Yuba Pass, California near where I-80 crosses the railroad. I used an old Nikkormat…

  • Fujichrome on the Minobu Line.

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    Working with my Nikon N90S, I exposed this vertical view (portrait orientation) from the back of Minobu Line train looking back toward Fuji, Japan. Earlier in the day,  I’d made some photos at Fuji on Kodachrome, just to be ironic….

  • Monon Semaphores on Fujichrome.

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    As a follow up to yesterday’s Extra Post, I thought I’d display this image of a similar signal in the USA. I made this photograph of three-position upper quadrant semaphores on the old Monon on a warm 2004 summer morning near Romney,…

  • Classic Chrome: Alcos and F-units in the Snow.

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    Typically when I post photos under the ‘Classic Chrome’ heading, I use this to infer photos made from decades past. Sometimes what was good then is good now. I made these slides earlier this month (February 2016) using my Canon…

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    Fuji X-T1: First Photos with a New Tool.

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    Back in December and January, I borrowed Pat Yough’s Fuji X-T1 and exposed a few photos. Quite a few in truth, and often more than I was expecting because I’d set the motor drive to its highest setting (I call this…

  • Norfolk Southern on 19th Street in Erie, Pennsylvania October 1994

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    Norfolk Southern’s former Nickel Plate Road mainline from Buffalo to Cleveland navigated 19th Street in Erie, Pennsylvania. This unusually long section of street trackage offered some great photographic opportunities. In October 1994, I was visiting Erie on my way from…