{"id":34342,"date":"2022-09-25T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34342"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:37:53","slug":"may-1978-amtrak-448-passes-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/may-1978-amtrak-448-passes-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1978-Amtrak 448 Passes Palmer."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In May 1978, my father drove us to Palmer, Massachusetts to watch the passage of the eastward Lake Shore Limited<\/em> (train 448). I made a series of photos using my pre-war Leica IIIA rangefinder on Kodacolor II color negative film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This trailing view looks east toward the old South Main Street Bridge and Conrail’s Palmer yard. It looks like something nasty happened to the westward signal (at right). A pair of E8s led the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite their age, these old color negatives have held up reasonably well. I scanned them in 2016 using an Epson V600 flatbed scanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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