{"id":19973,"date":"2017-12-09T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19973"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:22:38","slug":"housatonic-at-housatonic-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/housatonic-at-housatonic-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Housatonic at Housatonic\u2014Revisited!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June 2016, I posted on Tracking the Light some views of the Housatonic Railroad at Housatonic, Massachusetts (located along the Housatonic River).<\/p>\n

See:\u00a0http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2016\/06\/14\/housatonic-railroad-at-housatonic-an-example-of-contrast-control\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In November 2017, I returned to this location in advance of the approaching northward Housatonic freight NX-12 that featured two early 1960s-era GP35s in the lead followed by 32 cars (28 loads, 4 empties) and another GP35 at the back.<\/p>\n

I find the railroad setting here fascinating. The combination of the traditional line with wooden ties and jointed rail in a setting of old factories, freight house and passenger station makes for a rustic scene out of another era.<\/p>\n

Working with a Nikon F3 with 50mm lens I made a series of black & white photos on Kodak Tri-X. And, I also exposed a sequence of digital color photos using my FujiFilm X-T1.<\/p>\n

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Freight house at Housatonic, Massachusetts. Exposed on Tri-X with a Nikon F3 fitted with a 50mm Nikkor lens. Film processed in Kodak D76 1-1 with water for 7 minutes 20 seconds at 68F.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Freight house and factories, looking north from the westside of the tracks. In today’s railroad world, this scene is decidedly rustic.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Digital color photo exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1. RAW File processed in Lightroom with contrast adjustment to improve shadows and highlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tri-X black & white photo of Housatonic Railroad freight NX-12 working northward.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Digital color photo exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1. RAW File processed in Lightroom with contrast adjustment to lighten shadows and control highlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tri-X photo with 50mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Digital color photo exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1. Fuji Velvia color profile; camera Jpg scaled for Internet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Digital color photo exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1. Fuji Velvia color profile; camera Jpg scaled for Internet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In June 2016, I posted on Tracking the Light some views of the Housatonic Railroad at Housatonic, Massachusetts (located along the Housatonic River). See:\u00a0http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2016\/06\/14\/housatonic-railroad-at-housatonic-an-example-of-contrast-control\/ In November 2017, I returned to this location in advance of the approaching northward Housatonic freight NX-12 that featured two early 1960s-era GP35s in the lead followed by 32 cars (28 … Continue reading Housatonic at Housatonic\u2014Revisited!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19971,"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":[3814,4537,294,7535,3602,3603,104,636,3604,5],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Housatonic_RR_Housatonic_MA_DSCF2055.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5c9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973"}],"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=19973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19974,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions\/19974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}