{"id":10295,"date":"2015-03-18T02:08:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T06:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2015-03-14T05:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T09:50:48","slug":"southern-pacific-bealville-california-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/southern-pacific-bealville-california-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Pacific, Bealville, California 1993."},"content":{"rendered":"

We heard the thunderous roar of EMD 645-E3 diesels laboring upgrade in \u2018Run-8\u2019 (maximum throttle.) Thick fog at Bealville in the California Tehachapis amplified the sound.<\/p>\n

I was traveling with my friend and fellow photographer Brian Jennison, a veteran of Tehachapi railroad photography.<\/p>\n

As the sound faded in and out, I looked for an angle; walking back and forth, I finally settled on this view on the outside of the curve at the often-photographed Bealville horseshoe.<\/p>\n

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A version of this image appeared in Pacific Railnews in the mid-1990s when I worked for Pentrex Publishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Southern Pacific all train movements were deemed either \u2018eastward\u2019 or \u2018westward\u2019 in their relation to the direction traveled from milepost 0 in San Francisco, regardless of the compass. In the Tehachapis, a train may be traveling in all directions at the same time owing to the exceptional sinuosity of the trackage.<\/p>\n

This uphill freight was moving railroad timetable east.<\/p>\n

In the lead was a Rio Grande SD40T-2. It had a transitional lighting arrangement, that included its as-built headlight and oscillating lights, plus recently added ditch-lights and a \u2018gumball\u2019 rotating yellow light atop the cab. Again the fog has accentuated the locomotive\u2019s lights.<\/p>\n

I was working with my Nikon F3T with Nikkor f1.8 105mm telephoto mounted on my Bogen 3021 tripod and loaded with Fuji 100 slide film (what I used to call \u2018Fujiahundred\u2019). I metered the scene with a Sekonic Studio Deluxe handheld photocell.<\/p>\n

The sound show was far more impressive than any image I could have made of the train\u2019s approach and passing. I wish I could stand there again in the fog on that April 4, 1993 morning!<\/p>\n

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