{"id":15726,"date":"2016-06-17T05:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15726"},"modified":"2016-06-12T09:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T13:25:01","slug":"this-is-the-beginning-not-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/this-is-the-beginning-not-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Beginning Not the End."},"content":{"rendered":"

So it read on one end of Conrail\u2019s specially painted New England Division caboose.<\/p>\n

Ironically, on this day that ‘end’ of the caboose that was facing inward toward the freight cars.<\/p>\n

I made these photos at the end of the day at Tennyville in Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The freight was Conrail\u2019s PWSE (Providence & Worcester to Selkirk).<\/p>\n

These were among my reticulated negatives in my lost photo file described in detail in yesterday\u2019s post (see: Conrail-Visions from another era<\/a>.) They were exposed in Spring 1984.<\/p>\n

\"Conrail\u2019s
Conrail\u2019s one of a kind New England Division Caboose spent a couple years on the Boston & Albany in the mid-1980s. Sometime after Division Supt E.C. Cross retired it was sent west to New York State where it became the Buffalo Division Caboose. I have more photos of it out there. Most of them sharper than these.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Interestingly,
Interestingly, my unintentional and inept processing of the negatives resulted in producing better tonality in the sky. This was at the expense of sharpness and granular uniformity however.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Palmer,
Looking west at Palmer, Massachusetts in the Spring of 1984.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"If
If you look carefully, you can spot the headlight of PWSE’s headend working Palmer yard to make a pick up. That’s the old Route 32 bridge over the tracks \u00a0in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interestingly, my unintentionally inept processing of the negatives resulted in producing better tonality in the sky. This was at the expense of sharpness and granular uniformity however.<\/p>\n

For more than 30 years these negatives were stored unlabeled in a white envelope.<\/p>\n

I scanned them last week; and using digital post-processing techniques I was able to adjust the contrast to partially compensate for the damage in processing.<\/p>\n

\"\u00a9Brian
I featured this caboose in my first book on American railroad cabooses authored with John Gruber and published by MBI.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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So it read on one end of Conrail\u2019s specially painted New England Division caboose. Ironically, on this day that ‘end’ of the caboose that was facing inward toward the freight cars. I made these photos at the end of the day at Tennyville in Palmer, Massachusetts. The freight was Conrail\u2019s PWSE (Providence & Worcester to … Continue reading This is the Beginning Not the End.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15724,"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":[3814,4537,1952,53,3609,30,3610,3611],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/\u00a9Brian-Solomon-582668-1.jpg?fit=2514%2C1590","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-45E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726"}],"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=15726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15727,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions\/15727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}