{"id":43714,"date":"2026-03-03T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43714"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:13:59","slug":"conrail-sd50-at-gang-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-sd50-at-gang-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail SD50 at Gang Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In January, 1988, I made this portrait of Conrail SD50 6726 at Gang Mills Yard on the former Erie Railroad west of Corning, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kodachrome 25 was my color film of choice in those days. And it was always nice to find winter sun on a Conrail locomotive. The SD50s were among my favorite Conrail EMDs at that time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I have many photos of Conrail SD50s, this one has never seen the light of day, until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know that some viewers might dismiss this as ‘just an engine picture’, but it is a photo of an impressive looking engine\u2014and that was all it was ever meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kodachrome 25, exposed using a Leica M2 with 50mm Sumicron. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

Although I have many photos of Conrail SD50s, this one has never seen the light of day, until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43715,"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":[5128,5186,5390],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Conrail_SD50_6726_Gang_Mills_Yard_NY_Jan1988_\u00a9Brian_Solomon_899325.jpg?fit=2048%2C1378","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bn4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714"}],"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=43714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43716,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions\/43716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}