{"id":28171,"date":"2019-11-20T08:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T13:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28171"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:12:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T13:12:32","slug":"visit-to-westport-june-25-1986-five-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/visit-to-westport-june-25-1986-five-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Westport\u2014June 25, 1986\u2014Five Photos."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was sifting through some old 120 black & white negatives yesterday and found these photographs from a morning\u2019s photography along the old New Haven Railroad in Connecticut from June 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started the morning in South Norwalk, then moved down to Westport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the photos from the morning were exposed on Kodachrome slide film, but I made a few select images on Kodak Tri-X using my father\u2019s Rolleiflex Model T using a 645-size \u2018superslide\u2019 insert to obtain a rectangular crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amtrak 904 leads the eastward mail train at Westport at 9:18am on June 25, 1986. Kodak Tri-X with Rollei Model T exposed at f8\/11 1\/500 sec and processed in Kodak D76 at 68 degrees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Most interesting to me now are the views of Amtrak\u2019s eastward mail train behind AEM-7 904. This carried a group of baggage cars at the back including some from VIA Rail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I have detailed photographic notes from the day, what I don\u2019t have recorded were my thoughts on the experience at the time. This was one of several similar trips I made to former New Haven electrified territory in the summer of 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amtrak mail train with a VIA Rail baggage car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Catenary masts at Westport draw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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