{"id":29832,"date":"2020-09-17T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29832"},"modified":"2020-09-17T12:46:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:46:15","slug":"maine-central-gp38-255-bangor-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/maine-central-gp38-255-bangor-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Central GP38 255\u2014Bangor, Maine."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On August 26, 1986, Art Mitchell was giving photographer Brandon Delaney and me a tour of Maine railways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had perfect Kodachrome weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among our stops was Maine Central\u2019s Bangor Yard, where I made this view of GP38 255 working an eastward freight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was fascinated by the antique switch lamp in the foreground, which was still part of the railroad\u2019s functioning equipment and not merely a decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had Kodachrome 64 loaded in my Leica 3A, and I exposed this color slide with a 65mm Leitz lens mounted using a Visoflex (a Rube Goldberg-inspired reflex view-finder attachment) on the screw-mount pre-war (WW2) 35mm camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This somewhat awkward camera arrangement was my standard means for exposing color slides at that time. I made careful notes of my exposure, which was f8 at 1\/200th<\/sup> of a second. (My Leica 3A used some non-standard shutter speeds.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I find the GP38 interesting because its sister locomotive, number 252, is a fixture at the Conway Scenic Railroad (although at present it is out of traffic and awaiting repairs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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