{"id":2907,"date":"2013-06-19T07:25:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2013-06-18T23:29:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T03:29:03","slug":"wisconsin-southern-at-lake-monona-june-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wisconsin-southern-at-lake-monona-june-18-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin & Southern at Lake Monona, June 18, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last final minutes of the day’s sunlight.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

John Gruber and I went over to Madison\u2019s Lake Monona anticipating Wisconsin & Southern\u2019s (WSOR) road freight heading to Janesville.\u00a0 I\u2019m working against a deadline, so I brought the laptop with me to read, write and edit, while waiting for the train thus making dual use of my time. John said, \u2018You\u2019re putting me to shame!\u2019 All he brought was a camera.<\/p>\n

After a 40 minute wait, we heard a horn sounding for a crossing. But it wasn\u2019t coming Madison as we expected. This wasn\u2019t the southward train, but the northward run! So 20 minutes from sundown a pair of SD40-2s crawled across the causeway. It was here that Bill Middleton made some iconic photos more than 60 years ago. John remembered, \u201cHis first published picture in Trains<\/i>; it featured the Dakota 400<\/i> crossing the bay.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin & Southern SD40-2 4010 eases across Lake Monona with a freight for Madison. Exposed with my Canon 7D fitted with 28-135mm lens. ISO 200.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wisconsin & Southern SD40-2 4010 catches the glint crossing Lake Monona in Madison. Exposed with my Canon 7D fitted with 28-135mm lens. ISO 200.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I exposed a few slides with my Canon EOS 3, and a flurry of digital images with my EOS 7D. Then we drove over to WSOR\u2019s Madison yard, where we found another freight ready to leave. I made a few photos with my Lumix LX-3 in the fading light.<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin & Southern’s Madison Terminal. Lumix LX-3 exposed at f3.5 1\/13 second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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