Five years ago today (July 10, 2017), I traveled on SEPTA to the old Reading Company station at Chestnut Hill (now Chestnut Hill East) where I made this selection of photos using my Lumix LX7.
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July 10-2017—SEPTA
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SEPTA’s Broad Street Subway
In December 2014 on a blitz of SEPTA’s rail transit in Philadelphia with my brother Sean, I made this view of the Broad Street Subway at the Girard Avenue stop.
My feeling is that SEPTA’s Broad Street Subway is among the least photographed rail transit lines in the Northeastern United States.
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Brian Solomon is traveling ‘off the grid’ and this post was prepared several days ago.
30th Street Solari Board-June 4, 2015
I was traveling from Philadelphia to Virginia on June 4, 2015.
Working with my first Lumix LX7, I made these photos of Amtrak’s 30th Street Station, focusing on the classic Solari Board that displayed arrivals and departures.
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Amtrak at Prospect Park
In December 2014, Pat Yough lent me his FujiFilm XT1. At the time I was seriously considering this camera system.
We drove to Prospect Park near Philadelphia, Pa., where I put the camera through its paces. I wanted to see how it handled sunset situations.
Among the test photos I made was of this northward Amtrak train on the Northeast Corridor led by then-new Siemens ACS-64 Number 607.
Ultimately, I bought an XT-1, and I’ve been using one for more than 6 years.
This photo was adjusted from the camera RAW using Adobe Lightroom to manipulate shadow and highlight settings as well as fine adjustment to color temperature.
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SEPTA PCC 1980
In August 1980, on the return from Los Angeles, my family and I visited Philadelphia for a few days.
This was the view from our hotel room.
Working with my vintage Leica 3A rangefinder, I exposed this photo of an inbound SEPTA PCC car working the No. 10 route as it approached the Trolley subway portal off 36th street.
I was working with Kodachrome 64 slide film. The window glass and summer haze contributed to a cyan tint.
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