{"id":41165,"date":"2025-02-15T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41165"},"modified":"2025-02-15T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:37:03","slug":"tight-shot-on-kodachrome-sp-in-the-sacramento-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tight-shot-on-kodachrome-sp-in-the-sacramento-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight Shot on Kodachrome\u2014SP in the Sacramento Canyon."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In early September 1991, I was documenting Southern Pacific 4-8-4 No. 4449 with fellow photographer, and noted Southern Pacific author Brian L. Jennison. In between sets of the steam locomotive, we took the time to photograph SP’s freights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer midday sun in the canyons of northern California presented difficult lighting conditions to make photographs using Kodachrome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we were in the Sacramento River Canyon near Conant, California to catch SP’s westward EUWC-M (Eugene to West Colton manifest). I’d set up my Nikon F3T on a Bogen 3021 tripod in vertical (portrait) format in order to capture the train with the famed Castle Crags rock formation in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My lens of choice was an old Nikkor f4.0 200mm telephoto lens that I’d purchased secondhand a year earlier. This lens was tricky to focus, but offered a wonderful soft color palette that helped compensate for the summer ‘high sun’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As SP’s EUWC-M came into view I exposed a series of slides. I’d edited some of the other views and filed them away more than 30 years ago, but this one had remained in the yellow Kodak box until a few days ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been gradually sorting, scanning, labeling and filing thousands of my older slides. Although this is a very tight view, it makes me nostalgic for the days when Southern Pacific’s EMD diesels populated the rails of the West. I was especially fond of SP’s classic headlight arrangement that included both fixed and oscillating headlights and a red oscillating warning light, such as featured on SP SD45T-2 9260.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kodachrome 25 slide exposed using a Nikon F3T with 200mm telephoto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was before the use of ditch lights predominated on American locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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