{"id":2363,"date":"2013-05-04T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2013-05-04T05:21:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T09:21:41","slug":"midwestern-sunset-on-chicago-north-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/midwestern-sunset-on-chicago-north-western\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwestern Sunset on Chicago & North Western"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iconic image of tracks to the horizon.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chicago & North Western’s Chicago-Omaha mainline at sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the mid-1990s, I\u2019ve made a variety of similar images along the Chicago & North Western\u2019s Chicago-Council Bluffs mainline that offers a literal depiction of the classic textbook illustration showing railroad tracks to demonstrate perspective.<\/p>\n

Why C&NW? The angle of tracks and arrangement offers classic simplicity. This is a largely tangent east-west double-track line that crosses comparatively open landscapes in western Illinois and central Iowa, where installation of advanced signaling combined with burying of code lines and other communications minimized line-side poles and wires.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve exposed for the sky that produces a silhouette of tracks and equipment. C&NW’s highly polished mainline rails nicely reflect the evening sky. For added interest I\u2019ve included a set of interlocking signals in the distance. If I placed them too close, \u00a0the signals will have become the subject, and that was not the intent of this image.<\/p>\n

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