{"id":16370,"date":"2016-08-07T05:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T09:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16370"},"modified":"2016-08-05T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:11:09","slug":"locomotive-geometry-metrolink-fp59phi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/locomotive-geometry-metrolink-fp59phi\/","title":{"rendered":"Locomotive Geometry\u2014Metrolink F59PHI."},"content":{"rendered":"

I made these views at Los Angeles Union Station the other morning featuring\u00a0some of Metrolink’s Electro Motive Division-built F59PHIs.<\/p>\n

These locomotives were styled in accordance with mid-1990s General Motors automobile aesthetical considerations.<\/p>\n

Today, with two decades of hard service behind them they look like battle worn machines and reminded me of the Penn-Central E-units I used to see as a kid.<\/p>\n

Using my FujiFilm XT1, I made some detailed studies of several of these old machines.<\/p>\n

\"For
For this view I wanted to include the tower to the left of the station. To make the composition work, I used my Zeiss 12mm Tuoit, which had secondary effect of providing a suitable color palate for the scene. Notice the optical illusion at the very top of the frame that makes the edge of the photo seem skewed.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Still
Still using the Zeiss 12mm, I walked up close to the old F59PHI and made this slightly unusual perspective. A little bit of contrast control was needed in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Metrolink
Metrolink 880 has evidence of a collision. The nose section is made of of fiberglass and designed to help protect the crew. Exposed with my Fujinon 18-135mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Here's
Here’s a vertical format view made from the same angle. Which do you prefer?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Nose
Nose comparison. I’ve always liked this sort of image where a locomotive’s shape is echoed. In the old days I’d do this sort of thing with E and F units.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My new book\u00a0Field Guide to Trains, Locomotives and Rolling Stock<\/em> <\/a>(published by Voyageur Press<\/a> in 2016) features the F59PHI with an image of a Metrolink locomotive at Los Angeles Union Station in 2009.<\/p>\n

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I made these views at Los Angeles Union Station the other morning featuring\u00a0some of Metrolink’s Electro Motive Division-built F59PHIs. These locomotives were styled in accordance with mid-1990s General Motors automobile aesthetical considerations. Today, with two decades of hard service behind them they look like battle worn machines and reminded me of the Penn-Central E-units I … Continue reading Locomotive Geometry\u2014Metrolink F59PHI.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16365,"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":[3786,1718,796,751,3736,749],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Metrolink_F59PHI_880_at_LAUS_DSCF1950.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4g2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16370"}],"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=16370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16375,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16370\/revisions\/16375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}