{"id":21289,"date":"2018-05-31T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21289"},"modified":"2018-05-29T08:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:47:52","slug":"from-the-closet-ektachrome-rejects-from-march-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/from-the-closet-ektachrome-rejects-from-march-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Closet: Ektachrome Rejects from March 1987."},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was at the Rochester Institute of Technology, once or twice a year Kodak would gift photo students with a selection of new products to try.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, I had been given a sample of two rolls of the latest Ektachrome.<\/p>\n

A professor gave us a vague assignment to make color photographs, so I wandered up to Lincoln Park, a junction on Conrail\u2019s Water Level Route west of downtown Rochester, New York, and exposed these photos.<\/p>\n

There I found local freight WBRO-15 working with GP8 7528. The crew was friendly and quite used to me photographing of their train.<\/p>\n

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Back in 1987 my serious railroad photos were exposed using 120 black & white film or on Kodachrome 25. These Ektachromes were an anomaly. After the assignment was turned in, I relegated the remaining images to my \u2018seconds box\u2019 and forgot about them\u2014for 31 years!<\/p>\n

I found them back accident the other day, and so scanned them post haste.<\/p>\n

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You mean pairs of Conrail SD50s aren’t common any more on Water Level Route road freights?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I thought my Rochester friends would get a kick out of seeing them. How much has changed since March 11, 1987?<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Posts Daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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