{"id":39447,"date":"2024-07-02T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39447"},"modified":"2024-06-30T21:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T01:37:39","slug":"conrail-local-on-the-franklin-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-local-on-the-franklin-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail Local on the Franklin Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following up on Saturday’s post of the MBTA at Norfolk, Massachusetts, I thought I’d post this photo that I made of a Conrail local working at Franklin, Massachusetts in November 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is looking west where the tracks run parallel with East Street, at the junction between former New Haven Railroad’s New York & New England route running west toward Willimantic, Connecticut and the New Haven Branch to Milford, Massachusetts (since upgraded for MBTA service to Forge Park\/495.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d exposed this photograph on black & white film using a Leica 3A rangefinder fitted with a Canon screw mount 50mm f1.8 lens. For a few months, I used the Canon lens as a replacment for my Leica 50mm f2.0 Summitar that I’d damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canon lens was faster than the Summitar but lacked the critical sharpness of the Leica lens. As a result, this period of photography has great interest to me in regards to subject matter, but suffers from inferior technical quality than some of my earlier work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took a few years, but ultimately I made significant changes in the equipment that I was using that greatly improved the technical quality of my photograhy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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