{"id":25994,"date":"2019-03-23T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=25994"},"modified":"2019-03-23T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T07:58:08","slug":"30-years-ago-today-conrail-meet-at-sunrise-on-the-water-level-route-near-batavia-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/30-years-ago-today-conrail-meet-at-sunrise-on-the-water-level-route-near-batavia-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"30 years ago today: Conrail Meet at Sunrise on the Water Level Route near Batavia, New York."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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Looking at this Conrail photo makes me feel that March 23, 1989 wasn’t that long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d left my apartment in Scottsville, New York before dawn and headed west on Rt33 in my white Toyota Corolla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew I had a westbound climbing Batavia Hill\u2014the nominal rise of the Water Level Route that ascended the Niagara Escarpment on the way toward Buffalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Leica M2 was loaded with Kodachrome 200 \u2018Fast Kodachrome\u2019 (three stops faster than K25, which was my normal film in 1989).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I parked the car west of Batavia near CP406 (where New York Central\u2019s 1950s track re-alignment to avoid downtown Batavia rejoined the historic railroad route). With time running short, I hike east beneath the code lines and set up my Leica with a 200mm Leitz Telyt telephoto on my Bogen 3021 tripod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could hear the slow moving westbound as the sun glimmered above the horizon. But then behind me fast moving eastward stack train blasted for Donahue Road. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The headlight of the westbound appeared and over the next few seconds I captured a running meet between the two Conrail trains. K200\u2019s warm color balance and grain structure made for the perfect combination to distill the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rolling sunrise meet on Conrail’s Water Level Route west of Batavia, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve run this photo in various publications and it\u2019s one of my favorite Water Level Route views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent the rest of the day photographing along the former Erie Railroad, which was alive with trains. I remember it all as if it was yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also see my earlier post: \u2018The Curse of the Code Lines\u2019 http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/11\/24\/the-curse-of-the-code-lines\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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