{"id":44966,"date":"2026-08-27T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44966"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:40:59","slug":"tome-interlocking-jpgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tome-interlocking-jpgs\/","title":{"rendered":"TOME Interlocking JPGs."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TOME Interlocking in Port Deposit, Maryland offered a photographic opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moon was rising in the southeastern sky\u2014two days short of being full\u2014and there was ample ambient light from streetlights and local businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I set up my Nikon Z6-III on a tripod and made a series of exposures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally, for my night photos, I work from the camera\u2019s NEF files and make a variety of cosmetic post-processing adjustments to extract as much detail as possible from my exposures. With these images, however, I worked from the in-camera JPGs, simply scaling them for the internet without any visual adjustments. What you see is what you get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TOME may seem like an unusual name for a railroad control point; however, it is aptly applied to this remote-control switch. Jacob Tome was the big man around Port Deposit in the latter 19th century. Among his many important roles in local business, he served as a director of the Columbia & Port Deposit Railroad\u2014later a component of the Pennsylvania Railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although we waited for about half an hour for the train to pass, we gave up before it arrived at Port Deposit. On the way home, however, we caught a glimpse of it from Maryland 222. Some other night, we may return to photograph a train, by night or by day, passing the Tome memorial interlocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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