{"id":3910,"date":"2013-09-25T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2013-09-26T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:31:03","slug":"locomotive-geometry-susquehanna-alco-rs-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/locomotive-geometry-susquehanna-alco-rs-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Locomotive Geometry: Susquehanna Alco RS-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Binghamton, New York, December 1986.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a cold and snowy day when I drove from Rochester to Binghamton, New York in December 1986. I photographed several trains along the former Erie Southern Tier route.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon, I made this study of a New York, Susquehanna & Western Alco RS-1 at the railroad\u2019s Binghamton yard.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on 120 size Kodachrome<\/a> 64 roll film with a Rollei Model T featuring an f3.5 75mm Zeiss Tessar lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was using my dad\u2019s Rollei Model T loaded with 120 Kodachrome 64. I had the camera fitted with a \u2018Super Slide\u2019 insert that gave me 16 rectangular frames per roll, roughly in the 645 format. Pop had bought the camera in Germany back in 1960.<\/p>\n

I think its neat that my father had photographed Susquehanna\u2019s RS-1s in passenger service more than 25 years earlier with the same camera. Since I was only 20 then, it seemed to me that the locomotives (and the Rollei) had been around since the dawn of time!<\/p>\n

This batch of Kodak 120 Kodachrome had a tendency to color shift red, so after scanning I made some corrections in post processing. Other than that the image is extremely sharp. Scanned at 4800 dpi as TIF file this is nearly 250 MB. That\u2019s an enormous amount of information.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always liked locomotive details. Some of my earliest efforts focused on engine shapes.<\/p>\n

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POP!<\/p>\n

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