{"id":10604,"date":"2015-04-09T02:59:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2015-04-09T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T12:38:32","slug":"burlington-northern-1991-at-beach-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/burlington-northern-1991-at-beach-north-dakota\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington Northern 1991 at Beach, North Dakota."},"content":{"rendered":"

Desert Storm\u2014Badlands Storm.<\/p>\n

\"Exposed<\/a>
Exposed on Fujichrome 100 with my Nikkormatt FTN with a Nikkor f4 200mm lens, then popped off a second photo with my Nikon F3T loaded with Kodachrome. Scanned with an Epson V600 at 4800 dpi, scaled in Photoshop and reduced for internet presentation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s no beach here. I stood on the edge of the Badlands looking east as a violent thunderstorm raged over the Missouri Valley near Mandan, North Dakota.<\/p>\n

The sun was near the horizon as the last of its golden rays filtered across the open landscape. Lightning flashed in the distance.<\/p>\n

This had been Yellowstone country in Northern Pacific days:\u00a0massive 2-8-8-4s were built to move freight across the difficult undulating railroad east of Glendive, Montana.<\/p>\n

No Yellowstones for me. By 1994, they were but a distant vision, all scrapped before I was born.<\/p>\n

A headlight appears on the horizon. What\u2019s this? A westward empty coal train returning to Wyoming\u2019s Powder River Basin. An unusual white-faced locomotive in the lead.<\/p>\n

This was Burlington Northern SD60M 1991, a specially painted to commemorate Operation Desert Storm.<\/p>\n

This is among my favorite photographs from my big 1994 trip that began in January near Rochester, New York and ended six months later at Waukesha, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve made good use of this photo over the years. It appeared in Pacific RailNews 1994 Annual Rails West<\/em> and again in my book The American Diesel Locomotive<\/em> published by MBI in 2000.<\/p>\n

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