{"id":37221,"date":"2023-09-25T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37221"},"modified":"2023-09-23T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:53:23","slug":"elephant-style-at-school-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/elephant-style-at-school-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Style at School Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At 7:11 am on May 4, 1989, I parked my 1981 Toyota Corolla on School Road in Batavia, NY. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was moments ahead of a Conrail westbound freight symbol SENF-X (Extra section of the Selkirk to Niagara Falls train). I’d heard this on my scanner and knew that the fill on Byron Hill at School Road offered a nice broadside view of the tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With my Leica M2, I made this Kodachrome view of a pair of Conrail SD50s rolling west. I located this image the other night while searching for a suitable photo of Conrail 6753, and thought it was a pretty neat photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the pair of SD50s ‘elephant style’ (tail to trunk) is cool, what catches my eye today is the freshly painted Conrail 50ft box car. I wish that I’d made a photo full frame of that car. Today, any clean railroad-owned boxcar is worthy of attention. Back then, I just wasn’t all that impressed. And there’s a lesson for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year earlier, I photographed the same leading SD50 (6793) on May 1st at CP402 in Batavia. I’ll need to find that photo. In the mean time, stay tuned for a nice view of Conrail SD50 6753 (now Norfolk Southern SD40E 6342-See yesterday’s post).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kodachrome 25 color slide exposed at f3.5 1\/250 second with a Leica M2 and 35mm Summicron lens on May 4, 1989. Scanned with a Nikon LS5000 scanner at 4000 dpi using VueScan software. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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