{"id":3555,"date":"2013-08-20T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2013-08-13T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T10:42:15","slug":"south-shore-sunset-october-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/south-shore-sunset-october-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"South Shore Sunset, October 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interurban Electric Near South Bend, Indiana.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I was driving from Erie, Pennsylvania back to Waukesha, Wisconsin after a week of photography on the former Baltimore & Ohio in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

West of South Bend, the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend runs parallel to the former New York Central \u2018Water Level Route\u2019 (then operated by Conrail).<\/p>\n

I\u2019d found a lightly used grade crossing, where I photographed a few Conrail freights. I didn\u2019t have a South Shore schedule, but hoped I might see something roll over the old interurban electric line.<\/p>\n

Ten years earlier, I\u2019d taken a memorable trip over the line from Chicago to South Bend. Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, my father had made many images of the South Shore, and I was always fond of the line, despite having missed its operation of antique multiple units and Little Joe electrics that had made the line popular with photographers.<\/p>\n

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Caption: Outbound South Shore train at sunset near South Bend, Indiana in October 1994. Signals on Conrail\u2019s parallel former New York Central mainline are visible to the left of the train. Exposed on Fujichrome 100 with a Nikkormat FT3 with 28mm Nikkor lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As daylight faded, I notice that the old Union Switch & Signal color signals facing me suddenly changed from displaying yellow to red. This indicated to me that something was about to happen. And, sure enough, a few minutes later I could hear a train clattering along.<\/p>\n

I found a low angle to feature the richly colored sky and I made a single exposure on Fujichrome 100 using my Nikkormat FT3\u00a0 with 28mm Nikkor lens. This remains one of my favorite railway photos: for me it captures the essence of South Shore\u2019s interurban electric operation. I\u2019ve used it in various places over the years.<\/p>\n

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