On this day in 2010 (September 11), I photographed a northward New England Central empty ethanol train cresting the grade at State Line viewed from Monson, Massachusetts.
In the first two photographs the train is south of the Massachusetts-Connecticut border.
To make this telephoto sequence, I was working with my old Canon EOS7D with 100-400mm Canon zoom
This was a familiar location. When I was a teenager, I’d ride my 10-speed bicycle here from our family home to photograph Central Vermont freights.
In 1986, my pal TSH and I had been comparing the differences between Kodachrome 25, Kodachrome 64, and Fujichrome 50 slide film.
It was early during this trial period that I made this photo of Central Vermont’s southward freight 562 with Grand Trunk Western 5808 in the lead ascending State Line Hill in Monson, Massachusetts passing the old Zero Manufacturing plant on Bliss Street.
I was very much impressed by the colors in this image when it was returned to me from Kodak, and the appearance of this slide and other K25 images contributed to my decision to adopt this emulsion as my standard slide film.
