{"id":10522,"date":"2015-04-19T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10522"},"modified":"2015-03-25T07:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T11:03:57","slug":"twenty-years-ago-today-chicago-north-western-at-jefferson-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/twenty-years-ago-today-chicago-north-western-at-jefferson-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years Ago Today: Chicago & North Western at Jefferson Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my classic Kodachrome file: it was on the evening of April 19, 1995 that I made this photo of a pair of Chicago & North Western GP9s assembling their train at Jefferson Junction, Wisconsin for the run up to Clyman Junction.<\/p>\n

I used a low angle, but using my Nikkor 35mm perspective control (pc) lens, I adjusted the front element to hold the vertical lines in parallel, thus avoiding the unnatural looking parallax effect.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Kodachrome 25 slide film using a Nikon FT3 with 35mm pc lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

C&NW was just weeks away from being absorbed by Union Pacific. It was the end of an era. Hard to believe it was really 20 years ago!<\/p>\n

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From my classic Kodachrome file: it was on the evening of April 19, 1995 that I made this photo of a pair of Chicago & North Western GP9s assembling their train at Jefferson Junction, Wisconsin for the run up to Clyman Junction. I used a low angle, but using my Nikkor 35mm perspective control (pc) … Continue reading Twenty Years Ago Today: Chicago & North Western at Jefferson Junction<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10521,"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":[10,48],"tags":[2317,766,7535,770,9,45],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CNW-GP7s-at-Jefferson-Jct-Wis-Apr-19-1995-Brian-Solomon-661978.jpg?fit=750%2C501","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2JI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522"}],"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=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10524,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions\/10524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}