{"id":43641,"date":"2026-02-20T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43641"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:58:52","slug":"broadway-at-bennington-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/broadway-at-bennington-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway at Bennington Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the morning of July 30, 1987, I awoke to the sounds of 20-cylinder 645-diesels roaring up the grade toward Gallitzin, Pa. at the back of Conrail freights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day dawned clear and bright. Amtrak train No. 40 (Chicago-New York Broadway Limited) <\/em>was running a few hours behind the advertised. I set up looking upgrade toward Allegheny Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my father’s Rolleiflex Model T set up with a 645-sized ‘Super Slide’ rectangular insert and loaded with Kodak 120 TMY (T-Max 400), I made this image of the Broadway<\/em> descending the grade at Bennington Curve (several miles from its more famous cousin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I felt that Kodak TMY was a difficult film. This used a fine T-grain structure but was very challenging to process. I only worked with this emulsion for about two years, because I found the photos were difficult to print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, TMY seems to scan well. I scanned the 39-year old negative using an Epson V600 scanner and then imported the TIF scan into Lightroom for nominal adjustment digitally. I wish it had been this easy back in 1987!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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120 size negative on TMY film. This was processed in D76 1:1. The scan is without cosmetic processing. Compare with the adjusted file below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Same scan as above, but following nominal changes in Adobe Lightroom aimed primarily at improving contrast and exposure. If you look carefully, you will see my shadow on the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

In 1987, I made this image of the Broadway descending the grade at Bennington Curve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5028,5585],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Amtrak_Broadway_Limited_Bennington_Curve_Gallitzin_PA_July_1987\u00a9Brian_Solomon22338-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1448","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-blT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43641"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43688,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43641\/revisions\/43688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}