{"id":40248,"date":"2024-10-12T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40248"},"modified":"2024-10-12T07:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T11:19:54","slug":"classic-view-at-stateline-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/classic-view-at-stateline-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic View at Stateline Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the mid-1980s, I made numerous trips to photograph Conrail’s Boston Line\u2014the former Boston & Albany\u2014at Stateline Tunnel. This short, curved, twin bore tunnel is located a few miles west of the Massachusetts-New York Stateline in Canaan, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the morning of Aug 24, 1984, my pal TSH and I spent several hours at the tunnel waiting for trains. Four decades earlier, my friend Bob Buck had photographed at this same location, and I was familiar with his photos of B&A’s Lima Berkshires, New York Central Mohawks, and new Alco FA diesels at the tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this view of Amtrak Train 448\u2014Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited<\/em>\u2014approaching the west portal on the eastward track using my pre-war Leica 3A 35mm camera loaded with Kodak Tri-X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was an early favorite photo of mine and for years I had a mounted print of it on my wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The negative had been missing for decades, but resurfaced the other day while I was going through boxes in our new house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I scanned the original 35mm negative using my Epson V600 flatbed scanner and processed the image using Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More than 40 years have passed since I exposed this image. It just doesn’t seem so long! Today, Bob Buck would have been 95! Happy Birthday Bob!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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