{"id":41172,"date":"2025-02-18T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41172"},"modified":"2025-02-14T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T03:01:43","slug":"classic-chrome-february-18-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/classic-chrome-february-18-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Chrome\u2014February 18, 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1988, while I was attending the Rochester Institute of Technology, I shared a rented apartment in Scottsville, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the benefits of the apartment was that it was in earshot of the former Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh line to Rochester, operated by Genesee & Wyoming start-up Rochester & Southern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the afternoon of February 18, 1988, the horn of the southward RS-1 (mixed through freight from Brooks Avenue Yard in Rochester to East Salamanca, New York) was sounding for a crossing. Track speed wasn’t very fast, so I had time to catch the train and follow it in the afternoon light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between Garbutt and P&L Junction, I made this view on Kodachrome 25 slide film of the leading locomotive, a former New York Central GP40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Kodachrome in Kodachrome light of a southward Rochester & Southern freight from Rochester, New York, the home of Kodak. A few days after exposure I sent the film to Kodak’s Rochester processing plant, which was returned to me later in the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was among a group of slides that I rejected and sorted into a box labled ‘seconds and thirds’. I scanned it last week for presentation here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Full frame Kodachrome slide, exposed using a Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron lens-February 18, 1988.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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