{"id":10102,"date":"2015-03-02T02:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10102"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:11:20","slug":"grab-shot-conrail-november-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/grab-shot-conrail-november-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab Shot: Conrail November 1984."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another gem from my Conrail files. I have tens of thousands of Conrail photos, many of them exposed in black & white.<\/p>\n

This image caught my eye. November 1984 was a busy month photographically, and I exposed almost all my photographs that month with an old Leica 3A. (My original camera had suffered a failure, so I was using one of my dad’s.)<\/p>\n

This was exposed mid-month, probably on a Saturday. I was traveling with some friends. We\u2019d seen Conrail PWSE (Providence & Worcester to Selkirk, New York) working the old Boston & Albany yard in Palmer, and were heading west to find a location.<\/p>\n

The train got the jump on us, and there was a panic as we saw the train racing west behind us: \u201cThere it is!\u201d I made this grab shot looking down the road at North Wilbraham toward one of the few grade crossings on the B&A route west of Worcester, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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Conrail PWSE races across the grade crossing at North Wilbraham, Massachusetts in November 1984. Exposed on 35mm black & white film using a Leica 3A with 50mm Summitar. Photo cropped to eliminate unnecessary foreground. Notice my careful placement of the locomotives in relation to the trees and poles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For me this captures the scene. North Wilbraham isn\u2019t the most salubrious environment, but so what? Not every place is a park and it shows the way things were in the mid-1980s. I can hear \u2018The Cars\u2019 (Boston band) playing on the radio.<\/p>\n

Need a close up of Conrail\u2019s B23-7s? I have lots of those too.<\/p>\n

Now wouldn\u2019t this have been a cool angle 40 years earlier with one of Boston & Albany\u2019s class A1 Berkshires hauling freight under a plume of its own exhaust?<\/p>\n

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