{"id":43586,"date":"2026-02-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43586"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:08:26","slug":"december-1977-long-island-rail-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/december-1977-long-island-rail-road\/","title":{"rendered":"December 1977; Long Island Rail Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my 11th birthday in October 1977, my father presented me with a Leica 3A rangefinder. Two months later, we were visiting my grand parents in New York City, and we took a trip over to Queens to photograph trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the places that we stopped was at Woodside Avenue, where I made a sequence of 35mm photos with the Leica of passing Long Island Railroad third-rail multiple units on the six-track line running toward Penn Station. We are looking toward the New York City Transit Authority’s Flushing Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leica 3A rangefinder with 50mm Summitar lens; Kodak 5063 Tri-X film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I processed this roll of Kodak Tri-X in our kitchen sink using a mix of Kodak Microdol-X developer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1980, I used a version of this photo to help illustrate my Junior High Science Fair project titled Electrified Railroads in the United States<\/em>, which earned me second place in the competition. Since that time, this strip of negatives had sat in the dark in a group of my early negatives. I scanned it last week and imported the hi-res scan into Adobe Lightroom for cropping and contrast adjustment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering, I was only 11 years old, I think I made a pretty effective composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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