{"id":29678,"date":"2020-08-24T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29678"},"modified":"2020-08-24T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:36:07","slug":"union-pacific-at-3rd-street-in-west-oakland-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/union-pacific-at-3rd-street-in-west-oakland-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific at 3rd Street in West Oakland, California."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here\u2019s a gem from my black & white archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Working with my Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron lens, I exposed this image on 35mm Kodak Tri-X black & white film. I processed this in Edwall FG7, which allowed for richer tonality than D76 (my more typical developer of the time).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In April 1991, this was a common scene in West Oakland, California, before Union Pacific bought Southern Pacific, the railroad accessed the region via the former Western Pacific. WP route reached the Oakland yards via street trackage on 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0Street (which ran parallel to SP\u2019s street trackage on Embarcedero via Jack London Square, two blocks to the south).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the era before ditch lights were common equipment on UP locomotives. This freight is westbound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I revisited Oakland in 2008, I found little trace of the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0street trackage, with all moves now concentrated on the former SP line through Jack London Sq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I revisited Oakland in 2008, I found little trace of the 3rd street trackage, with all moves now concentrated on the former SP lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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":[6445,6442,6443,5190,5117,6444],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/UP_on_3rd_St_Oakland_CA_April1991\u00a9Brian_Solomon_577553.jpg?fit=2000%2C1240","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7IG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29678"}],"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=29678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29680,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29678\/revisions\/29680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}