{"id":16704,"date":"2016-09-18T05:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16704"},"modified":"2016-09-16T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:30:30","slug":"santa-fe-fp45-at-tehachapi-loop-then-and-now-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/santa-fe-fp45-at-tehachapi-loop-then-and-now-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Fe FP45 at Tehachapi Loop; Then and Now Comparison."},"content":{"rendered":"

My visits to California\u2019s Tehachapis in July and August (2016) made me curious to dig deep into my archives and revisit the photographs I made there in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

I traveled\u00a0with J. D. Schmid on my first visits to Southern Pacific\u2019s Tehachapi crossing. (Then Santa Fe operated in the Tehachapis via trackage rights on SP, as does BNSF on Union Pacific today).<\/p>\n

I made this Santa Fe FP45 photo on a rainy morning\u00a0February 1991.\u00a0We were on our way back from a detailed study of the SP\u2019s Beaumont Hill and environs.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Kodachrome 25 using a Nikon F3T with 35mm PC lens. Santa Fe FP45 91 is the lead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While hard to beat the great sound of EMD 20 cylinder diesels working the Tehachapi grades, it was difficult working with Kodachrome 25 to capture the experience. The film was slow and its spectral response didn’t favor dull days.<\/p>\n

Certainly the weather was better on my more recent visits. I traveled with David Hegarty, and we had ample opportunity to make photographs in the bright California sun.<\/p>\n

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A southward BNSF intermodal train ascends the loop at Walong, California. In SP days the railroad was viewed on an east-west axis (west being San Francisco). Today, present owner Union Pacific deems the directions of operation on a \u00a0north-south axis \u00a0(regardless of compass.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My visits to California\u2019s Tehachapis in July and August (2016) made me curious to dig deep into my archives and revisit the photographs I made there in the early 1990s. I traveled\u00a0with J. D. Schmid on my first visits to Southern Pacific\u2019s Tehachapi crossing. (Then Santa Fe operated in the Tehachapis via trackage rights on … Continue reading Santa Fe FP45 at Tehachapi Loop; Then and Now Comparison.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16702,"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":[4537,80,1087,620,42,1635,3726,3728],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Santa_Fe_FP45_91_at_Tehachapi_Loop_Feb1991_KM_BrianSolomon\u00a9589662.jpg?fit=2426%2C1647","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704"}],"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=16704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16705,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704\/revisions\/16705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}