{"id":29150,"date":"2020-05-19T07:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29150"},"modified":"2020-05-19T07:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:34:57","slug":"conrail-and-its-predecessors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-and-its-predecessors\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail and its Predecessors."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day I received my author&#8217;s copies of my new Conrail book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, if I only had time to absorb it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Order yours at: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kalmbachhobbystore.com\/product\/book\/01309\">https:\/\/kalmbachhobbystore.com\/product\/book\/01309<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"610\" data-attachment-id=\"29151\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-and-its-predecessors\/briansolomon_582981\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?fit=1988%2C2560\" data-orig-size=\"1988,2560\" 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=\"\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?fit=551%2C709\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?fit=474%2C610\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?resize=474%2C610\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?w=1988 1988w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?resize=551%2C709 551w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?resize=794%2C1022 794w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?resize=116%2C150 116w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?resize=1193%2C1536 1193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?resize=1591%2C2048 1591w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u00a9BrianSolomon_582981-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to my own Conrail photos, this features the work of a dozen  talented photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed the cover photo at Becket, Massachusetts in October 1997, using a Nikon N90S with f2.8 80-200mm lens and Fujichrome Velvia 50 color slide film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was on an epic Conrail adventure with Mike Gardner, during which in one day we caught the Ringing Brothers Circus train, a Conrail Office Car Special with E8s, the track geometry train and six freights led by clean EMD SD80MACs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#eef3f5;color:#1d30da\" class=\"has-text-color has-background\">Conrail? 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