{"id":28991,"date":"2020-04-18T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28991"},"modified":"2020-04-19T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T15:06:09","slug":"big-alcos-in-northern-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/big-alcos-in-northern-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Alcos in northern Quebec."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day, Adam Bartley and I were discussing railway operations and locomotives in Canada, which reminded me of an epic trip I took with George Pitarys and Bill Linley back in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28992\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/big-alcos-in-northern-quebec\/cartier-in-the-sept-iles-nat-park-brian-solomon-230050\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1626\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1626\" 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=\"Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?fit=709%2C450\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?fit=474%2C301\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?resize=474%2C301\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28992\" width=\"474\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?w=2560 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?resize=709%2C450 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?resize=1022%2C649 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?resize=205%2C130 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C976 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1301 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We drove to Port Cartier, Quebec, a port on the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, and spent several days photographing the isolated Cartier Railway, which moved exceptionally heavy iron ore trains using vintage six-motor Alco and MLW diesels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracks traversed a Canadian National park and this was as close to true wilderness as I\u2019d been up to that time. Other than the railroad and a dirt road that ran parallel, there was virtually no other human activity. No houses, no towns, no restaurants, stores, or anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This view  of a southward loaded train was exposed on Kodachrome 25 at milepost 21 (as measured from the port). At the time I was using a Nikon N90S with an f2.8 80-200mm Nikon zoom lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#1212cd\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 1997,I  spent several days photographing the isolated Cartier Railway, which moved exceptionally heavy iron trains using vintage six-motor Alco and MLW diesels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28992,"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],"tags":[6071,6252,6251,6253,6254,4537],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cartier-in-the-Sept-Iles-Nat-Park-Brian-Solomon-230050-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1626","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7xB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28991"}],"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=28991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29005,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28991\/revisions\/29005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}