{"id":4873,"date":"2013-12-15T05:17:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T10:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2013-12-11T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:29:31","slug":"daily-post-rochester-southern-emd-switcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-rochester-southern-emd-switcher\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Rochester & Southern EMD Switcher"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBrooks Avenue Yard, September 23, 1987.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among my favorite locomotives are Electro-Motive\u2019s classic end-cab switchers, of the sort introduced in the mid-1930s with EMC model SC.<\/p>\n

I became familiar with this type as a result of an O-Gauge Lionel NW-2 dressed for Santa Fe that my father bought for me about 1972. Later, I watched and photographed full scale switchers on Penn-Central, Conrail and Boston & Maine.<\/p>\n

This type in effect emulated the shape of the common steam locomotive, allowing the engineer to look down the length of the hood, instead of a boiler. Electro-Motive wasn\u2019t first to use this arrangement, which Alco introduced in the early 1930s. But, it was the Electro-Motive switcher that I found to have a classic sound and shape.<\/p>\n

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Rochester & Southern SW1200 107 is posed in front of the Brooks Avenue yard office between 9:45 and 10:15 am on September 23, 1987. I made this photograph with a Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron lens on Kodachrome 25 slide film. At the time was doing a lighting test with my Sekonic Studio Deluxe light meter. Puffy clouds were rapidly passing over and intermittently blocking (and diffusing) the sunlight. I made careful notes of changes in exposure which varied by two full stops between \u2018full sun\u2019 and shaded. \u2014
Incidentally, I published this image on page 53 of The American Diesel Locomotive<\/a> (MBI Publishing, 2000).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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When I was studying at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the late 1980s, Rochester & Southern\u2019s Brooks Avenue Yard was just a few minutes away. I routinely stopped by the yard to see what was going on.<\/p>\n

At that time, R&S 107\u2014a former Southern Pacific SW1200\u2014could be routinely found drilling cars. Over the years, I made a number of images of this old goat.<\/p>\n

I left Rochester in 1989. I wonder what has become of this switcher? Does it still sport the SP-order oscillating lights?<\/p>\n

See previous Tracking the Light posts:\u00a0\u00a0Lehigh Valley 211 at Lincoln Park, Rochester, New York<\/a>; \u00a0Genesee & Wyoming at P&L Junction, November 4, 1987<\/a>; and\u00a0Two Freights 24 Hours Apart<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brooks Avenue Yard, September 23, 1987. Among my favorite locomotives are Electro-Motive\u2019s classic end-cab switchers, of the sort introduced in the mid-1930s with EMC model SC. I became familiar with this type as a result of an O-Gauge Lionel NW-2 dressed for Santa Fe that my father bought for me about 1972. Later, I watched … Continue reading DAILY POST: Rochester & Southern EMD Switcher<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[10],"tags":[4537,1721,1719,1718,354,43,7535,342,854,9,29,310,1723,1720,1724,1222,1652,1722,1039,200],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RS_107_SW1200_exSP_Brooks_Ave_Rochester_NY_23Sep1987_Brian-Solomon-234411.jpg?fit=700%2C443","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1gB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873"}],"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=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4877,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions\/4877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}