{"id":21479,"date":"2018-06-23T06:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T10:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21479"},"modified":"2018-06-23T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T02:33:28","slug":"pittsburgh-lake-erie-coal-train-saving-a-sunset-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/pittsburgh-lake-erie-coal-train-saving-a-sunset-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Coal Train: Saving a Sunset Chrome."},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 15, 1987, I followed a loaded PLMT coal train east from Buffalo, New York. This train had operated with Pittsburgh & Lake Erie locomotives and was being handled by Guilford\u2019s Delaware & Hudson via trackage rights over Conrail\u2019s former Erie Railroad.<\/p>\n

Try to fit all that on the slide mount!<\/p>\n

At the time these coal trains operated about once a week, and while it wasn\u2019t uncommon to find P&LE locomotives, catching the trains on film was challenging.<\/p>\n

I made this view on Kodachrome 25 with my Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron Lens. It\u2019s a badly under exposed long pan (about 1\/8 of a second) from a hillside off the Canisteo River Road, in the valley of that name, a few miles east of Adrian.<\/p>\n

The original slide was made at the very end of daylight, and the slow speed ISO25 film didn\u2019t give me the needed sensitivity to capture the scene with adequate exposure.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a long way of saying; it was dark and I underexposed the film.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the scaled, but unadjusted scan. It’s about 3 to 4 stops underexposed. The slide is nearly opaque except for the sky. Exposure was about f2.0 at 1\/8 second on Kodachrome 25 (ISO 25).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thankfully, I didn\u2019t through the slide away.<\/p>\n

I scanned it using VueScan 9×64 (edition 9.6.09) software and a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 slide scanner. It opted for manual controls; I selected 4000 dpi input, under \u2018color\u2019 I used the Kodachrome K14 color profile, and while output was set at 4000 dpi as a TIF file.<\/p>\n

I then imported the TIF into Lightroom for color, exposure and contrast adjustment, necessary to compensate for my extreme underexposure. To hold sky detail, I applied a digital graduated neutral density filter.<\/p>\n

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Here’s my first round of adjustments. I thought the sky and overall color balance \u00a0seemed a bit otherworldly so I zeroed out the adjustments and started again. Compare this with the image below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Although similar, this version is better balanced and looks closer to the original scene. Although underexposed, the Kodachrome film was able to capture some detail over more than 6 stops, allowing for post processing adjustment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although slightly grainy, the results are much improved over the original and captures my intended effect of the train rolling at speed through the Canisteo Valley at dusk.<\/p>\n

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On November 15, 1987, I followed a loaded PLMT coal train east from Buffalo, New York. This train had operated with Pittsburgh & Lake Erie locomotives and was being handled by Guilford\u2019s Delaware & Hudson via trackage rights over Conrail\u2019s former Erie Railroad. Try to fit all that on the slide mount! At the time … Continue reading Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Coal Train: Saving a Sunset Chrome.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21482,"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":[4774,4773,4775,4776,4537,4772,4771,51,7535,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DH_PLE_eb_unit_coal_train_PLMT_on_Conrail_former_Erie_RR_in_Canisteo_Valley_near_Adrian_NY_Nov1987\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610488.jpg?fit=2668%2C1842","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479"}],"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=21479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21486,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions\/21486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}