{"id":14710,"date":"2016-04-02T06:42:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T10:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14710"},"modified":"2016-04-03T04:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T08:31:32","slug":"conrail-at-10-mph-arkport-new-york-on-the-old-erie-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-at-10-mph-arkport-new-york-on-the-old-erie-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail at 10 mph; Arkport, New York on the old Erie Railroad."},"content":{"rendered":"

It was April 1989 when I exposed this view of Conrail\u2019s BUOI (Frontier Yard Buffalo to Oak Island, New Jersey) bumping along the number 2 track at Arkport, New York.<\/p>\n

At that time this portion of the old Erie Railroad line from Hornell to Buffalo as still directional double track (rule 251) with block signals largely in the from of antique Union Switch & Signal Style S semaphores.<\/p>\n

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A 35mm black & white photograph exposed using a Leica M3 rangefinder with 90mm lens. That’s my old (then new) Bogen 3021 tripod that I’d lent to a fellow photographer ( seen at\u00a0left).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between Hornell and Hunt, New York, Erie’s\u00a0old eastward main wasn’t maintained for speeds faster than about 10mph, and when possible Conrail routed traffic against the current of traffic on the westward (number 1 track.) Not on this day though.<\/p>\n

I was working with two Leica M rangerfinders that day; I made a similar view on Kodachrome slide film with my M2 that appeared in RailNews <\/em>for its \u2018Farewell to Conrail\u2019 issue back in 1999 (a little more than ten years after I exposed it).<\/p>\n

While Conrail was only an extant player in American mainline freight operations for a little more than 23 years, it was my favorite of the big eastern railroads.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts Daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was April 1989 when I exposed this view of Conrail\u2019s BUOI (Frontier Yard Buffalo to Oak Island, New Jersey) bumping along the number 2 track at Arkport, New York. At that time this portion of the old Erie Railroad line from Hornell to Buffalo as still directional double track (rule 251) with block signals … Continue reading Conrail at 10 mph; Arkport, New York on the old Erie Railroad.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14709,"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":[3814,4537,3433,53,51],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Conrail-at-Arkport-Brian-Solomon-photo-204622.jpg?fit=2471%2C1618","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3Pg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710"}],"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=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14773,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions\/14773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}