Visit to Westport—June 25, 1986—Five Photos.

brian solomon

November 20, 2019

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I was sifting through some old 120 black & white negatives yesterday and found these photographs from a morning’s photography along the old New Haven Railroad in Connecticut from June 1986.

I started the morning in South Norwalk, then moved down to Westport.

Most of the photos from the morning were exposed on Kodachrome slide film, but I made a few select images on Kodak Tri-X using my father’s Rolleiflex Model T using a 645-size ‘superslide’ insert to obtain a rectangular crop.

Amtrak 904 leads the eastward mail train at Westport at 9:18am on June 25, 1986. Kodak Tri-X with Rollei Model T exposed at f8/11 1/500 sec and processed in Kodak D76 at 68 degrees.

Most interesting to me now are the views of Amtrak’s eastward mail train behind AEM-7 904. This carried a group of baggage cars at the back including some from VIA Rail.

While I have detailed photographic notes from the day, what I don’t have recorded were my thoughts on the experience at the time. This was one of several similar trips I made to former New Haven electrified territory in the summer of 1986.

Amtrak mail train with a VIA Rail baggage car.

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brian solomon

Author of more than 50 books on railways, photography, and Ireland. Brian divides his time between the United States and Ireland, and frequently travels across Europe and North America.

3 responses to “Visit to Westport—June 25, 1986—Five Photos.”

brian solomon

November 20, 2019

If only I had visited Co. Mayo in 1986! But that was long before I first arrived there, I’m afraid.
JOHN O’CONNOR

November 20, 2019

Huh – that’s not the Westport I was expecting.

Nevertheless – good photos.
Tom Rochford

November 20, 2019

Initially, I was thinking Mayo as in …Westport, County Mayo.

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