{"id":10820,"date":"2015-05-06T03:52:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10820"},"modified":"2015-05-06T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:29:26","slug":"old-kate-shelley-high-bridge-boone-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/old-kate-shelley-high-bridge-boone-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Kate Shelley High Bridge Boone, Iowa."},"content":{"rendered":"

At dawn on June 9, 1996, I was set up near the west end of the old Kate Shelley Bridge. Mist clung to the valley floor as the sun painted the sky to the east.<\/p>\n

Across the cornfield to the west I could hear an eastward Union Pacific freight blowing for highway crossings, the roar of its locomotives gradually getting louder.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Fujichrome Provia 100 film using a Nikon F3T.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I opted for this semi-silhouetted view. My subject is\u00a0the bridge; the train is meant to be incidental. Yet the train makes the photos more interesting, and the couple of Conrail engines in the large consist of locomotives provide\u00a0added interest for the keen observer.<\/p>\n

This was little more than a year after Union Pacific had absorbed Chicago & North Western.<\/p>\n

A decade later, UP began construction of a new bridge here using a modern structure. I imagine that the scene is much changed today.<\/p>\n

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