{"id":14754,"date":"2016-04-23T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T14:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14754"},"modified":"2016-04-24T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T12:00:18","slug":"chicago-north-western-farewell-21-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/chicago-north-western-farewell-21-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light Extra: Chicago &#038; North Western Farewell-21 years ago today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the weekend of April 23, 1995, Howard Ande and I followed Chicago &amp; North Western&#8217;s east-west mainline from Chicago to Council Bluffs, Iowa and back making hundreds of images in anticipation of\u00a0the Union Pacific take over.<\/p>\n<p>I exposed this color slide\u00a0of a relatively new C&amp;NW GE-built DASH9-44CW near Missouri Valley, Iowa on the evening of April 23, 1995.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14748\" style=\"width: 2473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cnw_dash944cw_missouri_valley_ia_apr231995_brian_solomon_235352\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14748\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14748\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/chicago-north-western-farewell-21-years-ago-today\/cnw_dash944cw_missouri_valley_ia_apr231995_brian_solomon_235352\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?fit=2473%2C1617\" data-orig-size=\"2473,1617\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"C&#038;NW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed on Fujichrome Provia100 using a Nikormatt FTN with 35mm PC (perspective control\u2014shift lens).&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?fit=709%2C464\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?fit=474%2C310\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14748\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?resize=474%2C310\" alt=\"Exposed on Fujichrome Provia100 using a Nikormatt FTN with 35mm PC (perspective control\u2014shift lens).\" width=\"474\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?w=2473 2473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?resize=205%2C134 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?resize=709%2C464 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?resize=1022%2C668 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed on Fujichrome Provia100 using a Nikormatt FTN with 35mm PC (perspective control\u2014shift lens).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the light posts daily.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the weekend of April 23, 1995, Howard Ande and I followed Chicago &amp; North Western&#8217;s east-west mainline from Chicago to Council Bluffs, Iowa and back making hundreds of images in anticipation of\u00a0the Union Pacific take over. I exposed this color slide\u00a0of a relatively new C&amp;NW GE-built DASH9-44CW near Missouri Valley, Iowa on the evening &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/chicago-north-western-farewell-21-years-ago-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tracking the Light Extra: Chicago &#038; North Western Farewell-21 years ago today!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14748,"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":[2317,766,3449,3450],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CNW_DASH944CW_Missouri_Valley_IA_Apr231995_Brian_Solomon_235352.jpg?fit=2473%2C1617","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3PY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754"}],"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=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15027,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions\/15027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}