{"id":34120,"date":"2022-08-26T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34120"},"modified":"2022-08-25T20:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:30:26","slug":"something-random-and-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/something-random-and-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Random and Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was looking for something else and I found a box of Fujichrome slides: on it was written ‘VRS’. Nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside are a bunch of gems from early 1998. Photographer Mike Gardner and I had made a trip to Rutland, Vermont where we photographed a Vermont Rail System local freight that worked a Clarendon & Pittsford job to a quarry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was just a few weeks before I made my first trip to England and Ireland. Months later when I returned from across the Atlantic, this box of slides sat on my desk. I don’t think I ever look at it. None of the slides are labled and they are all in numerical order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, it has special significance to me. Leading the train is Clarendon & Pittsford GP38 number 203. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s former Maine Central 255, now Conway Scenic 255. It is the locomotive I see almost every day! Back then it was just another red VRS EMD diesel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I scanned the slide using a Nikon LS5000 scanner driven by VueScan software. I scanned as a high-res TIF file then imported into Adobe Lightroom for some minor adjustments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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