{"id":39176,"date":"2024-05-29T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39176"},"modified":"2024-05-26T23:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T03:48:59","slug":"final-conrail-photos-25-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/final-conrail-photos-25-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Conrail Photos\u201425 years ago."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In March 1976, my father brought me trackside for a couple of days to witness northeastern railroading before Conrail assumed operation of most of the large railroads in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-three years later, we spent two days along Conrail’s former New York Central lines in eastern New York state , documenting the railroad’s final hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time Mel Patrick and I were writing a column on photography for Trains Magazine. Magazine Editor Kevin Keefe had organized for Canon to send us a selection of cameras and lens to work with. At the time, I was primarily a Nikon user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were among the images that I made on May 29, 1999 using the Canon equipment loaded with Fujichrome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days later Conrail concluded its independant Class 1 operations. CSX inherited the lines pictured here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conrail SD50 6800 leads NFSE (Niagara Falls to Selkirk, NY) eastbound near Palentine Bridge, New York. May 29, 1999.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Conrail TV79 westbound at Tribes Hill, NY. May 29, 1999.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Conrail westward freights at Tribes Hill, New York. TV203 (on right) is overtaking SENF (on left). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Conrail sunset; former Boston & Albany tracks near Chatham, New York. May 29, 1999.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Conrail sunset; former Boston & Albany tracks near Chatham, New York. May 29, 1999.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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These were among the final Conrail images that I made in May 1999, shortly before its independant Class I operations were divided between CSX and Norfolk Southern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5128,7954,7955],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Conrail_NFSE_with_SD50_6800_at_Palentine_Bridge_NY_May29_1999\u00a9BrianSolomon_120169.jpg?fit=1700%2C1144","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-abS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39182,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176\/revisions\/39182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}