{"id":33183,"date":"2022-04-11T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33183"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:08:29","slug":"classic-conrail-kodachrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/classic-conrail-kodachrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Conrail Kodachrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was among the many slides that I scanned yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my ongoing effort to scan, archive, and organize my slide collection, I&#8217;ve been scanning slides, and reorganizing the original chromes so that they are placed together by similar subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conrail is just one of  dozens of my subject categories . Ultimately, I hope to subdivide the Conrail slides in to smaller categories largely based on precursor railroad routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Kodachrome 25 image of a westward Conrail unit coal train was exposed in September 1988 at School Road in Batavia, New York, near milepost 399 on the former New York Central &#8216;Water Level Route&#8217; main line using my old Leica M2 with 50mm f2.0 Summicron lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is one of hundreds of Conrail photos I exposed between 1985 and 1999 of Conrail trains working the old Water Level Route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"319\" data-attachment-id=\"33185\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/classic-conrail-kodachrome\/conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_coal_train_at_mp399_1240pm_sept_19_1988_batavia_ny_briansolomon443246\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?fit=1700%2C1143\" data-orig-size=\"1700,1143\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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;1649616549&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=\"Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?fit=709%2C477\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?fit=474%2C319\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?resize=474%2C319\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?w=1700 1700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?resize=709%2C477 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?resize=1022%2C687 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?resize=205%2C138 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?resize=1536%2C1033 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#4070c1\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my on going effort to scan, archive, and organize my slide collection, I&#8217;ve been scanning slides, and reorganizing the original chromes so that they are placed together by similar subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[10,48],"tags":[5858,5128,5186,5250,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Conrail_6519_w_empty_unit_Coal_Train_at_mp399_1240pm_Sept_19_1988_Batavia_NY_\u00a9BrianSolomon443246.jpg?fit=1700%2C1143","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8Dd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33183"}],"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=33183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33189,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33183\/revisions\/33189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}