{"id":10089,"date":"2015-03-01T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T07:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2015-03-01T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T14:10:38","slug":"a-camel-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/a-camel-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"A Camel in the Snow."},"content":{"rendered":"

General Electric delivered Conrail\u2019s ten C32-8s in 1984. These were a group of unusual pre-production DASH-8 locomotives, and earned the nickname \u2018camels\u2019 owing to their humpback appearance.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always liked these distinctive locomotives and I had ample opportunities to photograph them on Conrail\u2019s Boston & Albany route in the 1980s and early 1990s.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Kodak black & white film using a Rolleiflex Model T with 75mm Zeiss Tessar lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In March 1988, I was skipping class at Rochester Institute of Technology and photographing along the former Erie Railroad in New York\u2019s Canisteo Valley.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon, light rain had\u00a0changed to snow. I was set up by the semaphores at milepost 308 west of Rathbone, New York and caught Conrail\u2019s westward doublestack train TV301 roaring through the valley with nearly two miles of train in tow.<\/p>\n

In the lead was C32-8 6617, an old favorite from my travels on B&A. I find it hard to believe that this locomotive was less than four years old at the time.<\/p>\n

The old Union & Switch Signal Style S semaphores\u00a0were decommissioned in January 1994.<\/p>\n

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General Electric delivered Conrail\u2019s ten C32-8s in 1984. These were a group of unusual pre-production DASH-8 locomotives, and earned the nickname \u2018camels\u2019 owing to their humpback appearance. I\u2019ve always liked these distinctive locomotives and I had ample opportunities to photograph them on Conrail\u2019s Boston & Albany route in the 1980s and early 1990s. In March … Continue reading A Camel in the Snow.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3814,4537,2601,53,51,32,33,1983],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TV301MOD1.jpg?fit=800%2C584","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2CJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10120,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}