{"id":13876,"date":"2016-01-28T06:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2016-01-24T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T21:16:43","slug":"amtrak-montrealer-hours-late-an-example-of-a-captioned-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-montrealer-hours-late-an-example-of-a-captioned-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak Montrealer Hours Late\u2014An Example of a Captioned Photograph."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not my finest print, but it was the best I capable of at the time. Today, what I find interesting is the effort I made at captioning the \u00a0print, which has preserved the spirit of the day and the relative significance of the image. Information distinguishes the train pictured from that of a generic move to a specific train on a specific day and highlights the relative importance of the image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s an old print. I exposed this years ago. It shows an Amtrak train in the snow someplace. If I had to guess, I say it was made somewhere in New England in the mid-1980s\/early 1990s based on the equipment.<\/p>\n

Except I don\u2019t need to guess. I know<\/strong> that it was exposed on the morning of January 16, 1984 and shows Amtrak\u2019s late-running Washington D.C. to Montreal Montrealer<\/em> passing South Deerfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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I chose to display this photograph because it has a decent caption on the back. My language skills weren\u2019t fantastic, but all I was trying to do was convey the vital information that related to the photograph. I typed my caption\u00a0up on label using an IBM Selectric typewriter (which imprinted letters with a rapidly rotating ball) and pasted it to the back of the print.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the caption I was trying to do was convey the vital information. \u00a0At the time, I\u2019d hope to send this to a magazine. Catching the Montrealer<\/em> in daylight was a real coup! (Or so I thought at the time.).<\/p>\n

I find this photograph interesting for other reasons too. As regular viewers of Tracking the Light may be aware, I\u2019ve made several recent views of Amtrak\u2019s Vermonter <\/em>at this same highway crossing (North Hillside Road) and so this makes for an interesting comparison view.<\/p>\n

The primary\u00a0reason I\u2019ve posted this\u00a0today is to provide an example of how a simple caption can solve many mysteries. Instead of a generic image of an Amtrak train kicking up snow, we instead know many of the crucial details; what, when where and why.<\/p>\n

These details\u00a0make the photo more relevant, and potentially more valuable as a record.<\/p>\n

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