{"id":29815,"date":"2020-09-14T07:03:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29815"},"modified":"2020-09-14T07:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:03:22","slug":"new-york-central-transformed-rochester-new-york-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-york-central-transformed-rochester-new-york-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Central Transformed\u2014Rochester, New York 1986."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the afternoon of September 12, 1986, I exposed this photograph of a westward Conrail double-stack container train on the former New York Central Waterlevel Route passing the Amtrak Station at Rochester, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old New York Central era tower was still standing, and the station platforms, complete with the old \u2018Rochester\u2019 signs dated from the New York Central era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the lead was a twenty-year old former New York Central GP40, and I was just short of my twentieth birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, this double stack train was unlike anything ever seen on the old New York Central. Among the big changes imposed under Conrail was a clearance improvement program that allowed for much taller trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exposed on Kodak black & white film. Negative cropped for presentation here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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My book Conrail and its Predecessors is available from the Kalmbach Hobby Store. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See: https:\/\/kalmbachhobbystore.com\/product\/book\/01309<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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