{"id":5138,"date":"2014-01-23T05:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T10:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2014-01-23T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:36:05","slug":"daily-post-springfield-station-march-31-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-springfield-station-march-31-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Springfield Station, March 31, 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Brian\u2019s Lost Archive.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Conrail,<\/a>
Conrail C30-7 6608 pauses at Springfield, Massachusetts Union Station on March 31, 1984. Exposed on Panatomic-X ASA 32 (Kodak Safety Film 5060) with Leica 3A fitted with a 50mm Summitar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made this photo when I was a senior in high school. Paul Goewey and I\u2019d planned to meet some friends at Springfield Station, and then drive north to photograph Boston & Maine at Deerfield.<\/p>\n

While we waited for the others to arrive, I exposed a series of images of Conrail on the former Boston & Albany mainline. At the time, Conrail regularly stored locomotives between runs on track 2A in the station (at right). On the left is a set of light engines led by Conrail 6608, one of ten C30-7s.<\/p>\n

More interesting is the locomotive trailing 6608, a relative-rare former Erie-Lackawanna SDP45.<\/p>\n

The trip to the B&M was very successful and I exposed two rolls of 35mm Kodak Panatomic-X ASA 32 (Kodak Safety Film 5060) with my Leica 3A, and a couple of rolls of 120 B&W with my dad\u2019s Rolleiflex. I processed all the film in the kitchen sink, using a crude formula of Microdol-X. I sleeved the negs and made 3×5 size proof prints.<\/p>\n

The 120 negatives have been in my files for three decades, but the 35mm negatives had vanished. I have a photo album from 1985, with many of these images, but for years was vexed by the loss of the 35mm negatives. As a rule, I don\u2019t throw photographs away.<\/p>\n

The other day, I found a carton with school papers and photographs. There, at the bottom was an unlabeled crumpled manila envelope. What\u2019s this? Ah ha!<\/p>\n

It was chock full of negatives from 1984-1985. All missing for decades, many of them unprinted.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A raw negative strip from my morning at Springfield Station on March 31, 1984. Although stored in a manila envelop for the better part of three decades, the negatives were processed properly and kept flat in a cool dry place, and so remain in very good condition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I scanned these negative strip on my Epson V600 scanner. Using Photoshop I cleaned up a few minor defect and made necessary contrast adjustments, then exported a reduced file size for display here. A photo lost for nearly three decades can now be enjoyed in through a medium I couldn\u2019t have foreseen when I exposed it.<\/p>\n

Also see:\u00a0Old Pointless Arrow and the Basketball Hall of Fame.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Amherst Railway Society ‘BIG RAILROAD HOBBY SHOW<\/a>‘ is on this weekend (January 25 and 26, 2014) at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

See:\u00a0http:\/\/www.railroadhobbyshow.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Solomon will cover the train show in Tracking the Light.<\/p>\n

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Please spread the word and share\u00a0Tracking the Light<\/a>\u00a0with anyone who may enjoy seeing it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Conrail,<\/a>
Conrail C30-7 6608 at Springfield Union Station on March 31, 1984.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From Brian\u2019s Lost Archive. I made this photo when I was a senior in high school. Paul Goewey and I\u2019d planned to meet some friends at Springfield Station, and then drive north to photograph Boston & Maine at Deerfield. While we waited for the others to arrive, I exposed a series of images of Conrail … Continue reading DAILY POST: Springfield Station, March 31, 1984<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3814,26,41,53,1842,7535,1059,108,672,104,1845,7,87,1843,1777,1778,1844,200],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MOD2_Conrail_6608_March-31_.jpg?fit=800%2C504","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1kS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138"}],"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=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}