{"id":15858,"date":"2016-07-03T05:55:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15858"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:08:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T22:08:43","slug":"amtrak-f40ph-heritage-locomotive-finding-an-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-f40ph-heritage-locomotive-finding-an-angle\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak F40PH Heritage Locomotive-Finding an Angle."},"content":{"rendered":"

So often I hear the following excuse:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t photograph trains anymore because I don\u2019t like [fill in the blank here]\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, I thought Amtrak F40PHs were just about as dull as it got.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t mind the F40 per se, but the platinum mist livery with narrow stripes, black cab and black trucks didn\u2019t do it for me. And these engines were everywhere!<\/p>\n

They were the ubiquitous face of Amtrak:\u00a0found on the Lake Shore<\/em>, the Zephyr<\/em>, the Broadway<\/em>, etc.<\/p>\n

I photographed them anyway. In black & white and in color.<\/p>\n

Looking back, some of the photos have aged well.<\/p>\n

Yet, the other day at when I was at Claremont Junction, New Hampshire to visit the traveling Amtrak Exhibit train, I still found it hard to get overly enthusiastic about an Amtrak F40!<\/p>\n

None-the-less, I made this view on Fuji Neopan Across 100 using my old Leica fitted with a 21mm Super Angulon.<\/p>\n

\"June
June 18, 2016, Claremont Junction, New Hampshire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You know, it doesn\u2019t look so bad now.<\/p>\n

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So often I hear the following excuse: \u201cI don\u2019t photograph trains anymore because I don\u2019t like [fill in the blank here]\u201d In the 1980s, I thought Amtrak F40PHs were just about as dull as it got. I didn\u2019t mind the F40 per se, but the platinum mist livery with narrow stripes, black cab and black … Continue reading Amtrak F40PH Heritage Locomotive-Finding an Angle.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15857,"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":[10,48],"tags":[3814,31,3637,227,3636,1414],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/\u00a9Brian-Solomon-582022.jpg?fit=2489%2C1607","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-47M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858"}],"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=15858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15900,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions\/15900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}