{"id":1450,"date":"2013-02-25T07:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2013-02-25T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:37:56","slug":"locomotive-geometry-part-3-canadian-pacific-sd40-2s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/locomotive-geometry-part-3-canadian-pacific-sd40-2s\/","title":{"rendered":"Locomotive Geometry Part 3; Canadian Pacific SD40-2s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trailing view of Canadian Pacific<\/a>‘s classic SD40-2s<\/a> at Bevier Street Yard in Binghamton, New York<\/a>. Exposed with a Nikon F3<\/a> fitted with f2.0 135mm lens. Fujichrome Provia<\/a> 100F slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

General Motors Electro-Motive Division<\/a> SD40-2 is classic North American locomotive design. This rugged, powerful, and reliable model was built in the thousands between 1972 and the early 1980s. Its essential boxy utilitarian form shares the same functional appearance common to most of EMD\u2019s American road-freight locomotives built from 1963 until the general proliferation of Safety-Cab designs in the early 1990s. Canadian Pacific ordered large numbers of SD40 and SD40-2s from General Motors Canadian subsidiary and these were its dominant road locomotive for the better part of two decades. In the early 2000s, they remained standard on CP\u2019s Delaware & Hudson<\/a> lines in New York and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\"Canadian<\/a>
Canadian Pacific’s classic 1970s ‘Pac-Man’ icon on the rear hood of SD40-2 5952. Exposed with a Nikon F3 fitted with f2.0 135mm lens. Fujichrome Astia 100F slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On October 12, 2003, I made a series of photographs of Canadian Pacific SD40-2s on a southward\/westward freight at Delaware & Hudson\u2019s Bevier Street Yard in Binghamton, New York. Here the locomotives were paused in nice light giving ample opportunity to make photographs from different angles. I was working with a pair of Nikon F3s (one F3HP, one F3T), and a Contax G2<\/a> rangefinder fitted with an unusual super wide-angle lens. Displayed here are a few of my results. The broadside Contax view at the bottom of the post was among the images featured in my recently published North American Locomotives<\/a> by Voyageur Press.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Canadian Pacific’s classic 1970s ‘Pac-Man’ icon on the rear hood of SD40-2 5952. Exposed with a Nikon F3 fitted with f1.8 105mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Broad<\/a>
Broad side view of Canadian Pacific SD40-2 6007 at Bevier Street Yard in Binghamton, New York. Exposed with a Contax G2 rangefinder with 16mm Hologon lens. (This is a flat field design to obviate barrel distortion).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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