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A Hrvatske Zeljeznice class 2044 diesel (General Motors export model GT22HW-2) works west of Zagreb. Exposed with an Nikon F3Ts with 105mm lens on Fujichrome slide film.At 7:13pm on May 28, 1986, Amtak 449, Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited clatters across the Palmer diamond on Conrail’s former Boston & Albany mainline. At Albany-Rensselaer this will join with the New York section for the journey over the Water Level Route to Chicago. Exposed on 120 B&W film with a Rolleiflex Model T twin-lens reflex fitted with 75mm f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens. This camera was not fitted with a prismatic view finder. Thus the finder image was a mirror of reality which made composition of moving trains challenging. Nor did this camera have a meter, so exposure was calculated using a hand-held meter and the photographer’s experience. In truth, bright sun shining off the stainless-steel passenger cars resulted in an overexposed image..A timetable-southward BNSF freight gets a green signal at Bealville, California. FujiFilm X-T1 photo. Image was not altered in post processing except to scale for internet presentation.071 at Gort.PCC at dusk on Frankford Street near The Handle Bar. LX7 Photo.Mass-Central switches at the Route 181 crossing north of Palmer. The morning mist clung to the valley but it soon burned away. Canon EOS 7D with 200mm lens.Exposed on 35mm black & white film using a Leica 3a with 50mm Summitar; exposure calculated with the aid of a Weston Master III photo cell. Film processed in D76.Exposed on 35mm Kodak black & white film with a Leica 3A fitted with a 50mm Elmar. Notice CocaCola’s hi-rise office in the distance. It was this landmark I was trying to feature. I didn’t have a 90mm lens, which is really what I needed to make this image work.Exposed on 35mm Kodak Plus-X using a Leica M2 with an f2.0 35mm Summicron lens. Exposure calculated manually using a Sekonic Studio Deluxe photo cell. Image scanned with a Epson Perfection V600 scanner; contrast altered in post processing using Lightroom.Amtrak 939 leads train 163 on the former New Haven Railroad at Green’s Farms, Connecticut. Exposed using a FujiFilm X-T1 with 18-35mm zoom lens.A DB Class 101 electric leads southward IC train through vineyards near Boppard, Germany in September 2013. Exposed with a Lumix LX3. The Lumix is fitted with a Leica lens that allows for great depth of field.VR overnight train IC 266 approaches Oulu, Finland on the evening of Jul 25, 2015.VR Sr2 at Oulu, Finland after 11 pm on Wednesday, July 22, 2015. File adjusted for exposure, contrast, and saturation.A Saturn advertisement graces a streetcar in Okayama, Japan in April 1997.A large snake (of the non-rattling variety) suns itself on Montana Rail Link in Lombard Canyon, Montana. Nikon F3T with 105mm lens; Kodachrom 25 exposed at f4.5 1/250th second
All the photos in today’s post are from Tracking the Light’s past posts. Today is a commemorative post. The Alco Century pictured were former Delaware & Hudson locomotives, at the time of the photo in 1989 it was one of a couple of Centuries operated by Genesee & Wyoming (the original G&W, back when it was still a railroad). I photographed them on Rochester & Southern’s Brooks Avenue Yard scale track in Rochester, New York.
All the photos in today’s post are from Tracking the Light’s past posts. Today is a commemorative post. The Alco Century pictured were former Delaware & Hudson locomotives, at the time of the photo in 1989 it was one of a couple of Centuries operated by Genesee & Wyoming (the original G&W, back when it was still a railroad). I photographed them on Rochester & Southern’s Brooks Avenue Yard scale track in Rochester, New York.
Are those D&H units on a hump? Where? If I remember, these were posted on “tracking the light” in the past… ?
Love the Mass Central CF7. (I have an O-Scale one upstairs.) reminds me of John Conn…
Yes, it’s just the other side of ‘autocorrectville’!
Fixed now. I hope.
Belleville? Is that anywhere near Bealville?
Congratulations, Brian! A few of the pictures were familiar from your previous postings. I wonder who will be the 300,000th viewer.