{"id":12761,"date":"2015-10-08T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12761"},"modified":"2015-10-09T05:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T09:53:58","slug":"conrail-tv5-springfield-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-tv5-springfield-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail TV5, Springfield, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard for me to believe these photos are\u00a0nearly 30 years old!<\/p>\n

Bob Buck and I were at Springfield Union Station on December 30, 1985, watching trains, as we often did back then.<\/p>\n

Conrail TV5 pulled up and stopped. I used this opportunity to make a few black & white photos using my father\u2019s Rollei Model T and Metz hand-held electronic flash.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d worked out a technique of blending existing light with electronic flash that retained the essential lighting of the scene.<\/p>\n

TV5 was a rarely photographed train that carried intermodal trailers from Boston to St. Louis. It was one of several piggyback trains that rolled over the B&A route in darkness.<\/p>\n

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Scan of my original negatives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the time, these seemingly mysterious night-time piggy back trains fascinated me, and I was very pleased to have captured this one on film<\/p>\n

I made two exposures. The first is pretty good. The second suffered from a knock to the camera or tripod. Today, I\u2019d have the opportunity to check my exposure and focus on site, back then all I could do was hope for the best.<\/p>\n

I processed the film by hand.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard for me to believe these photos are\u00a0nearly 30 years old! Bob Buck and I were at Springfield Union Station on December 30, 1985, watching trains, as we often did back then. Conrail TV5 pulled up and stopped. I used this opportunity to make a few black & white photos using my father\u2019s Rollei … Continue reading Conrail TV5, Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12760,"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],"tags":[2996,53,1353,1777,2995],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/B-4_Conrail-TV5-at-Springfield-12-30-85-Solomon-photo-X1000046.jpg?fit=5206%2C8338","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3jP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761"}],"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=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12764,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions\/12764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}