{"id":4464,"date":"2013-11-12T05:28:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T10:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:37:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:37:55","slug":"daily-post-wisconsin-central-byron-wisconsin-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-wisconsin-central-byron-wisconsin-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Wisconsin Central, Byron, Wisconsin, 1994."},"content":{"rendered":"

SD45s in a Corn Field.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the afternoon of December 3, 1994, Mike Danneman and I were following a southward Wisconsin Central freight up the 1 percent grade south of Fond du Lac known on the railroad as Byron Hill.<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin Central as viewed from across a cornfield at Byron, Wisconsin on December 3, 1994. Exposed with a Nikon F3T with a 28mm wide angle lens on Kodachrome 25 color slide film. Scanned with a Epson V600 scanner. No post processing except as necessary to scale image for internet use and insert byline tag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here, heavy freights would slow to a crawl for several minutes as they laboured to reach the summit at Byron. With a bit of swift driving we were able to make several images of the train in the low evening light.<\/p>\n

The best part of the experience was listening to the 20-cylinder throbbing roar pulsing into the rural Wisconsin countryside as the SD45s clawed their way up the hill.<\/p>\n

Ten years later, I returned to Byron Hill with a DAT recorder to make stereo sound records of SD45s at work.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Tracking the Light looks at CN on Wisconsin Central.<\/p>\n

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