{"id":2529,"date":"2013-05-19T09:37:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2013-05-19T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T14:29:01","slug":"burlington-northern-sentinel-butte-north-dakota-july-12-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/burlington-northern-sentinel-butte-north-dakota-july-12-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington Northern, Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, July 12, 1994."},"content":{"rendered":"

Revisiting the Badlands.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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BN SD60Ms westbound at Sentinel Butte<\/a>. Exposed with a Nikon F3T with f1.8 105mm lens on Kodachrome 25 slide film; shutter and f-stop information unrecorded; metered using a Sekonic Studio Deluxe hand-held light meter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In mid-July 1994, I spent several days photographing along Burlington Northern<\/a>\u2019s former Northern Pacific mainline in western North Dakota<\/a>. Here the railway snaked through the Badlands, with the landscape characterized by unusual geological formations.<\/p>\n

On the evening of\u00a0 July 12, 1994, BN sent a fleet of westward empty coal trains (described as \u2018coal cars\u2019 on the railroad) over the NP between Mandan, North Dakota and Glendive, Montana. At 7pm I caught this empty led by an SD60M at Sentinel Butte. Fast moving fair weather clouds made for some complicated lighting and a tricky exposure, but ultimately resulted in a more dramatic photograph.<\/p>\n

This was my second experience with this line. My first was viewing the line from the dome of the North Coast Limited some 24 years earlier. I was only four years old on that trip, but the train ride gave me lasting memories. My dad exposed slides from the dome and dutch-doors of the train and from the Vista dome, but I wasn\u2019t yet working with cameras.<\/p>\n

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