{"id":43057,"date":"2025-12-10T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43057"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:59:02","slug":"classic-chrome-sd45-on-the-mococo-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/classic-chrome-sd45-on-the-mococo-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Chrome-SD45 on the Mococo Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On April 21, 1991, I followed a set of Southern Pacific light engines on the Mococo Line to Tracy, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, the Mococo Line was very lightly traveled, and simply catching a daylight move on the line was in itself a prize. Better yet, these engines were on their way to collect a loaded sugarbeet train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this image on Kodachrome 25 using my Nikon F3T fitted with a Nikkor 35mm perspective control lens. (Which I adjusted to keep the signals parallel to the film plane).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 30 years this slide, along with a bunch of other ‘out-takes,’ sat in the dark inside the box that Kodak that returned the slides to me in back in 1991. Finally, I scanned it last month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sun-lit SD45 passing searchlight signals (and no ditchlights)! This looks pretty neat now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, Tracking the Light looks back!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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