{"id":27607,"date":"2019-08-30T05:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27607"},"modified":"2019-08-30T05:17:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:17:47","slug":"buoi-in-the-snow-future-cp-adrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/buoi-in-the-snow-future-cp-adrian\/","title":{"rendered":"BUOI in the Snow, Future CP Adrian."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although it was more than 25 years ago, it really doesn\u2019t seem so long since I made this Fujichrome Velvia slide of Conrail\u2019s BUOI (Road freight from Buffalo to Oak Island) along the former Erie Railroad in the Canisteo Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d followed the train east from Rock Glen, New York. Steady snow made for slippery road conditions so I took it easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I\u2019d caught up with the train, which had reached the newly created siding east of Adrian, that would soon become \u2018CP Adrian\u2019 (CP for dispatcher Control Point).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work was under way at the time, but the new color light signals hadn\u2019t been commissioned and the old semaphores that had governed movements under rule 241 (current of traffic) remained in place, but deactivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with my Nikon F3T and 105mm lens, I exposed this view as the train waited for permission to proceed east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"323\" data-attachment-id=\"27609\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/buoi-in-the-snow-future-cp-adrian\/conrail_buoi_at-future_cp_adrian_east_of_adrian_ny_jan7_1994_velvia_briansolomon-600012\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?fit=5316%2C3627\" data-orig-size=\"5316,3627\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?fit=709%2C484\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?fit=474%2C323\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?resize=474%2C323\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?w=5316 5316w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?resize=205%2C140 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?resize=709%2C484 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?resize=1022%2C697 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Velvia was a finicky film and it was tough to nail the exposure in some conditions Getting the snow exposure right was tricky, but since the train wasn\u2019t moving I made a bracket\u2014in other words I exposed several slides with slight exposure variations. You can see that it was relatively dark by the illumination in the number boards on 6118.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made this Fujichrome Velvia slide of Conrail\u2019s BUOI (Road freight from Buffalo to Oak Island) along the former Erie Railroad in the Canisteo Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[4774,4537,1987,53,51,7535,295],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Conrail_BUOI_at-future_cp_Adrian_east_of_Adrian_NY_Jan7_1994_Velvia_\u00a9BrianSolomon-600012.jpg?fit=5316%2C3627","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27607"}],"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=27607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27610,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27607\/revisions\/27610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}